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Drug Treatment and Suboxone

Because you have a number of choices in drug addiction treatment, it’s important that you choose the facility that will best serve your specific needs. If you are addicted to opioid-based drugs like heroin and prescription painkillers, you have an even wider range of choices in drug treatment. Opiate detox, inpatient opiate rehab, outpatient opiate drug treatment, and opiate medications like methadone and Suboxone are among your choices. Suboxone is the latest addition to the long list of available treatments for opiate drug treatment.

The Canyon offers a number of choices for drug addiction treatment, including Suboxone. If you have any questions about how we can help treat your drug addiction, contact us at The Canyon today.

Suboxone Drug Treatment: What is Buprenorphine?

One of the newest treatments for opiate drug addiction is buprenorphine, also known as Suboxone treatment. Commonly called "bupe," this treatment for opiate drug addiction comes in the form of two pills, Subutex and Suboxone, sublingual tablets that are taken according to a personalized schedule created by you and your medical team at The Canyon. Basically, if you are addicted to heroin or opioid-based prescription painkillers like Vicodin, OxyContin, hydrocodone, and codeine, you immediately stop taking it when you enter drug treatment and begin to take Subutex and Suboxone instead. The buprenorphine in these medications "tricks" your body into thinking that your drug of choice is present, thus allowing you to avoid experiencing withdrawal symptoms. After you are stabilized, you continue drug treatment and slowly decrease your buprenorphine dosage until you are no longer dependent upon anything.

Suboxone Drug Treatment: Pros and Cons

As with all medications, Suboxone drug treatment also has some disadvantages. It is still a medication and if you prefer to break free from any kind of addiction immediately, then Suboxone may not be the way to go. Also, you may not be completely Suboxone-free by the time you leave drug treatment, even if you opt for an inpatient drug rehab program. You may, in fact, need to continue your Suboxone prescription after you return home and continue to check in with a doctor regularly.

Some may consider these disadvantages while others consider them well worth the advantage of avoiding opiate withdrawal symptoms. Also, some initial studies on long-term use of Suboxone suggests that there are anti-depressant effects of the drug as well. The dosing schedule is also relatively easy to maintain as most don’t even have to take it every day. Additionally, you can’t abuse Suboxone, get high off of it or overdose on it like you can with some other opiate addiction maintenance or detox drugs, like methadone.

Suboxone Drug Treatment Versus Methadone Maintenance

There are two choices in medical treatment for opiate addiction: methadone and now buprenorphine. Both can be used in the short-term for opiate drug addiction treatment and detox, tapering off the dose over a period of time so that you remain as comfortable as possible until you are no longer physically addicted. Both are also used as a form of addiction maintenance in the long-term, adjusting the dose as needed. High-dose heroin or opiate prescription painkiller addictions will require methadone maintenance if medication is the chosen form of detox. Low-dose heroin and opioid-based drug addictions have the option of using Suboxone treatment instead. A number of other factors, as well, will come into play in choosing your medical drug treatment. If you have questions about whether Suboxone or methadone may be options for you or your loved one, contact us at The Canyon today.

Suboxone Drug Treatment at The Canyon

The Canyon offers a number of opiate drug addiction treatment options including medical detox and Suboxone treatment. If you have questions about Suboxone or would like to learn more about how we can help you or your loved one specifically, contact us at The Canyon today at .