You’ve made the decision to come in from the cold, get off the streets, give up the life—and stop using opioids illegally. Whether you were addicted to pain pills or if you fell all the way down the rabbit hole into heroin addiction, you’ve finally opted for methadone treatment. Life is much better these days because you feel better and you actually have your life back. But there’s one problem ...
Pregnancy and Opioid Addiction Treatment in Texas
In many parts of the country, expectant moms are given first priority to enter medication-assisted treatment for pain pill or opioid addiction. Treatment in Texas, however, does not need to begin until the child is born, and so the mothers often go through the entire pregnancy disregarding the need for help. Andrea Grimes of the online news service Reality Check has reported a couple times on ...
Controversy Over Suboxone Treatment
A couple of states are scrutinizing the prescribing practices of doctors who treat patients with opiate addictions. Coupled with the dark shadow cast by the perpetrator of the recent Charleston shootings, who had Suboxone in his possession at the time of his arrest, legislators are taking a long, hard look at buprenorphine, the generic name for Suboxone. Should Suboxone treatment be curtailed, ...
Phases of Treatment With Buprenorphine in Fresno
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 ...
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 ...
