The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) has much to say about the dosage of methadone for clients in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs, but it offers little instruction about Suboxone dosage. That’s because methadone is actually administered on site at the MAT facility, while Suboxone prescriptions are provided to the clients to be filled at their local ...
Suboxone Treatment in Georgia: Get the Counseling!
Getting Suboxone treatment in Georgia to battle your opiate addiction makes more sense the more you learn about it. Suboxone is approved by the FDA for use in treating addiction to prescription pain pills, heroin, and other opiates. It’s also possible to live life with a little more breathing space, because once you’ve been successfully inducted into Suboxone treatment you will find that you no ...
Questions About Treatment With Suboxone
The substance abuse professionals who supervise Suboxone therapy understand that the family members and significant others of persons with opiate addiction have many questions about treatment with Suboxone. Families wonder if Suboxone therapy is well regulated, and whether buprenorphine, the generic medication in Suboxone and Subutex, represents a good treatment option for their loved one. The ...
Go Ahead and Grieve During Drug Addiction Treatment
There is a whole range of emotions that you experience when you go into drug addiction treatment. Most people who realize they’ve become addicted to opiates face a desperate desire to quit using, combined with anger at themselves because they want to keep using, and frustration at the people around them who don’t understand the unique nature of their addiction. We previously discussed how ...
Fighting Anger: When Opiate Rehab Turns You Inside Out
In Pixar’s 2015 film Inside Out the protagonist is a young girl named Riley whose core emotions come to life on the screen, in the form of Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. Her cool, calm world is overturned when her parents move the family from Minnesota to San Francisco. But Riley doesn’t have to deal with anything compared with the gamut of emotions that affect people in opiate ...
Managing Opiate Addiction Treatment and Mental Illness
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) tells us that approximately 45 percent of all the people who request substance abuse treatment—including opiate addiction treatment—have some kind of mental or emotional health disorder that occurs at the same time. The people at opiate addiction treatment centers refer to this existence of both addiction and another ailment as ...
