Suboxone Therapy for Opiate Addiction
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