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Suboxone Therapy for Opiate Addiction

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Opiate addiction is a serious issue and it’s growing at a constant rate in the United States. In the face of the country’s opiate epidemic, our treatment program offers suboxone therapy. Suboxone is a prescription medication which contains a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone, it’s increasingly used to treat opiate dependence and our program believes it is a miracle, lifesaving medication. What to Understand About Opiates: Opiates are a class of drugs derived either naturally or synthetically from the seeds of the opium poppy plant. These medications function as a sedative to depress activity in the central nervous system, which as a result, causes pain reduction and sleepiness. Long-term use of opiates can result in dependence and a person developing a tolerance to the drug. When dependence happens, a person will likely need to seek some sort of professional help to become clean, and this is where the experts at our program can help. Treating Opiate Addiction wi...

Why Suboxone is the Best Opiate Treatment Option

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Suboxone has been called a “life saver,” because it can reduce the symptoms of opiate addiction and withdrawal. This medication, does have a potential to be abused, which is why it’s so important to only use it when it’s prescribed by a licensed suboxone doctor. Medication-assisted drug treatment can be the beginning of a brand new life for an opiate addicted person, but it must be used with therapy and followed up with aftercare support. Read on further to discover why our program feels suboxone is the best opiate treatment option. What Does Suboxone Contain and What Makes it the Best Opiate Treatment? Suboxone is a combination of two different medications; buprenorphine which is a partial opiate agonist and naloxone which is a pure opiate agonist. Buprenorphine delivers a very small dose of opiate to the patient, which is addicted to a stronger opiate drug like heroin. The drug provides a patient with a chance to be gradually weaned down from the drug of choice, while m...