If you’re exploring options to treat opiate addiction, you should consider the use of buprenorphine. In Fresno, some medication-assisted treatment programs offer both methadone and buprenorphine are available. Buprenorphine is the generic name for the brand-name drugs, Suboxone, Subutex, and Zubsolv. Suboxone and Subutex are both manufactured by the same company, Reckitt Benckiser ...
Suboxone Treatment and Cocaine: Keep Rollin’ Those Dice
If you’ve decided to try treatment for opiate addiction using buprenorphine—better known by its brand name, Suboxone—good for you! It’s not easy to turn away from the habits you’ve known for so long, no matter how dangerous they’ve been, because you’re giving up a lifestyle and people that make you feel comfortable. You’re turning toward new habits, new people, and new places. Be aware, however, ...
Physicians Join to Fight Prescription Drug Abuse
President Obama’s promise to dedicate $100 million to fight opiate addiction is welcome news in a country where addiction has become epidemic. One of his focal points will address the physicians and other prescribers who write orders for pain pills. People who play around with prescription drug abuse are 40 times more likely to become dependent on heroin, so it’s important to put a stop to ...
Questions About Opioid Withdrawal and Your Newborn
Hopefully you’re already ahead of the game if you’re pregnant. All pregnant women with an opioid dependency, no matter how fearful they are, need to get help at a medication-assisted treatment program as early as possible in their pregnancy. While you’re pregnant your treatment will most likely be with a medication such as Suboxone or known generically as Buprenorphine with Naloxone. You also ...
Suboxone, Substance Abuse, and Dependence
Learning more about buprenorphine’s role in substance abuse and dependence can help you fight the stigma that many people hold against medication-assisted treatment programs. It’s unfortunate that the old stigmas still exist against methadone and buprenorphine. A person with substance abuse problems from heroin, pain pills, or other opiates can participate in an opioid treatment program under ...
Can You Return to methadone maintenance Therapy?
Sometimes people involved in methadone maintenance therapy decide they no longer want to attend their program. That doesn’t necessarily mean that you are done with that program forever, and that you are doomed to a life of opiate addiction. Being in any kind of substance abuse treatment brings out a lot of emotions. Drug use feels good, whether people admit it or not, because drugs stimulate ...
