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
Thank you kindly. Those are hard learned lessons.
A true physical addiction to a substance is one of the hardest things to overcome.
“Wow...did he thank you?”
We are still very good friends.
It took a while for him to thank me and thanked me several times.
However, it was not until his first baby was born that he really to begin to understand what we did.
“”too many folks get detoxed and head right back out to do it all again.....””
Absolutely true, thus the need for rehab after detox. You and I both know that if a person doesn’t want to stop, nobody is going to make them. They have to want to start.
Nah rehab is a way for the Allie junkie to keep the ride going. The statistics for rehab success are not good
“”The statistics for rehab success are not good””
Much better than no detox or rehab, end result of that has a tendency to be death.
I never went to detox or rehab and I know lots of folks like me. They are all doing the do
Rehab teaches nonsense like relapse is part of recovery
“” I never went to detox or rehab “”
Then you have no knowledge on the subject. Some of us have been helping others for quite some time using rehab and detox when needed.
Not true. I know plenty of folks who have been and I have education and work experience.
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