Posted on 02/26/2017 7:08:21 PM PST by DBCJR
#Buprenorphine drugs, like #Suboxone and #Subutex, have been heavily marketed as the wonder drug for #opiate & #heroin #AddictionTreatment. While buprenorphine is one of 3 drug classes used in the SAMHSA evidence-based best practice, Medication Assisted Treatment, buprenorphine plateaus in effectiveness at an intermediate level of dependency, failing to manage withdrawals and cravings for intermediate to heavy dependencies.
Additionally, the vast majority of buprenorphine treatment has been "in the privacy of a doctor's office without the need for daily visits," as it was heavily marketed. This often means a doctor writes a 30 day prescription warning the patient:
1) Don't take other drugs with this. 2) Get counseling.
However, it is easy to understand why this seldom occurs. So, it is a drug that fails to adequately manage withdrawals and cravings for intermediate to heavy dependencies, and most often fails to provide:
1) Treatment for the underlying addiction. 2) Clinical accountability.
It is easy to understand why treatment outcomes have proven dismal for intermediate to heavy dependencies.
For such persons, #methadone has been found to be most effective. Hear the stories of persons with multiple failed treatment attempts who made that transition in the video below.
But not all #MethadoneClinics are the same. You need to look for the following characteristics in a program:
1) Group and individual psychotherapy at least 3 times per week in the initial phase of treatment utilizing research evidence-based best practices skillfully.
2) Staff who are warm, welcoming, and respectful. This should not need be said but it does.
3) Skillful Co-Occurring capable clinicians. Opiates tend to be the drug of choice for persons with mental illnesses, especially those with trauma histories. Traditional substance abuse confrontational approaches are harmful. Different counseling approaches and techniques are advisable. Likewise, mental illness symptoms can be mis-read.
4) Subsequent physician visits to effectively titrate dosing to optimal levels.
5) Frequent and random drug testing utilizing more expensive test instruments to detect temperature, adulterants, and at least 12 drug panels. These should be backed up by lab confirmations.
6) Care coordination with primary care and mental health providers.
Ask clinics about the above list of best practice clinical components to assure you or your loved one get the best of clinical care.
Hear testimonials of the difference:
https://youtu.be/DCZ7PMt5mGI
http://AbleRecovery.net
Methodone matinence is a joke
Detox followed by minimum 60 days in patient treatment then outpatient treatment for a significant amount of time.
Very very rare for a heroin addict to kick it just by taking methadone or even suboxone.
Most methadone clinics are just places for addicts to meetup and exchange drugs and sell methdone off to dealers.
At least the 8 mg suboxone strips, in theory, can be used to wean off by cutting it down to 6 mg then 4 mg then 2 mg....
I agree
Alot of people have had success with kratom.
Don’t you have an opinion? You posted it. It must have some meaning, interest or validity or non-validity to you. Is this a paid commercial?
I don’t envy anyone the challenge of recovery from addiction but they could start with NA.
And though prayer and masturbat. Ops meditation also is a must
THIS IS MUCH WORSE!!!!
AND THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!
I was given suboxone to take WITH oxycodone!
I’m not a drug addict and the senile mother ####er who was finally forced to retire last year told me to take the oxy first, then the suboxone a half hour later.
THAT CAN KILL YOU!!
Many times I wish it did. I was taking painkillers for head injury and this combo left me in INFINITELY WORSE SHAPE.
The #### was cleared by the medical board for obvious reasons i wont go into. Rich beats middle class any day.
You go into “precipitated withdrawal” if you take an opoid partial agonist after a full agonist.
The feeling was indescribable. I couldn’t walk, talk, think, was so sick i finally just fainted.
STOP giving this #### out period!!! No more roxys and oxys and percs and suboxone and hydrocodone unless XRAYS or MRIs prove there is a pain causing condition.
I know personal responsibility and all. What about pharma giving basically synthetic heroin to the masses AFTER LYING to the FDA about its addicting effects and paying SIX HUNDRED million in fines but no jail time of course.
Even though individuals of the company were fined.
Big Pharma makes me sick.
Now i will get the diatribe about how much it costs to bring a drug to market blah blah blah
What does this have to do with pushing dope?
While I was in college, I had a very good friend who was absolutely brilliant in his field of study and a great guy. I watched him in less than a year go from a casual drug user to full blown junkie. Meth, coke, herion and acid.
His family tried to convince him to go into treatment, I tried to convince him to go to treatment, and he refused, he cut all of us out of his life.
At the time, I had an extra room in my house and we secured the room by boarding up the windows, emptying the room and securing the door.
Another friend had a van and we went looking for him one night and found him walking on a street where drugs could be scored.
We grabbed him off the street, tossed him in the van, handcuffed him and tied up his feet.
We took him back to house, placed him in the empty room and let him detox.
He screamed for days, ripped the Sheetrock off the walls.
To feed him we would open the door, shine a spotlight in his face and enter the room. We gave him a bucket to go to the bathroom. He did not always use the bucket.
It took three weeks for him to even talk to use, a week later he agreed to treatment.
Today he is clean, has a family and is an architect with his work in AD.
It worked. We saved his life.
Wow...did he thank you?
The left would put you in jail for that one. A good way to start remodeling btw.
Your very fortunate he dint die
If you want to clean and sober there are good twelve step meetings with clean and sober people ought there.
Junk use and allies want an easier softer way....there ain’t one. You have to quit and you have to change....
I would suspect the only opiate addition treatment that stops addiction is a fatal overdose.
The best treatment is to slide into the underclass, and stay away from people who are not involved with your addiction — you’ll just drag them down too.
Thanks for caring enough.
Your assertions are not supported by data.
12 Steps - NA.
Bullet. Nothing else will do.
What makes the best Opiate & Heroin Addiction Treatment?
A wall at the border.
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