The editors at Addiction Professional online journal—Roland B. Vendeland, M.Ed., MA, LPC, and Roland Rager, MD, MPH—have published an interesting piece discussing the right time to stop buprenorphine treatment. Just how do you know when it’s the right time? Many people opt for buprenorphine treatment over methadone therapy because they think it will be short-lived, but often that is not the ...
SAMHSA Update on Buprenorphine Treatment
SAMHSA’s Advisory issued in early March 2016 provided substance abuse treatment professionals with a few new recommendations regarding buprenorphine treatment for opiate dependence. Your choice of either Zubsolv or Suboxone may be the biggest result of the Advisory. The Sublingual and Transmucosal Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder: Review and Update, brings exciting new information to ...
Financial Aspects of Methadone and Suboxone Treatment
Money is such a strange commodity, even for the average man on the street. For someone who wants to commit to methadone or Suboxone treatment for opiate addiction, the concept of money and everything it implies take on new meaning. Consider first the issue of paying for your recovery. Methadone and buprenorphine programs most likely are not completely covered by your insurance. Some insurance ...
