Take Suboxone Treatment After Knowing It

Suboxone treatment mainly aims to combat the problem of opiate addiction. Opiate includes heroine, vicodin, oxycontin, methadone so on. Many have question regarding the treatment in their minds. Suboxone is of course the name of a drug which fights against the powerful drugs of opiate. Optimal time of having suboxone is usually between 20 to 25 days. This makes the physical symptoms of detox manageable. Suboxone works in a way that there is no chance of the patient’s getting cross-addicted by suboxone.

When a patient is stabilized by the suboxone and if the level is not getting high, doctors assume that this is an indication of recovery. Then a detail program is arranged to highlight the abstinence and better preventive techniques. Patients may suffer restlessness, irritability and discontent during the course of the treatment. Suboxone makes the disease manageable physically, but it is unable to help the emotional and spiritual consequences of opiate addiction. Doctors should make it clear to the patients that suboxone can make them clean but full recovery is not always possible by suboxone.

Suboxone helps to reduce anxiety and depression of an opiate addicted person. 2 mg suboxone, per day help to block approximately 80 percent of a person’s feelings. Higher dose can make a patient numb. Often due to this numbness, patients are unable to have any feelings to have the drugs. But this is not the solution. Therefore the doctor must be cautious while prescribing the dose of suboxone.

Suboxone is great only if it used for a short period of time. It takes the patient into a stabilized situation immediately. This short term treatment can be conducted in outpatient setting. For the long term treatment, doctors often find suboxone as not a suitable drug. It should be noted that suboxone is not a natural treatment to cope with the opiate addiction. It is composed in a lab with the receptors in the brain. When suboxone is given for a long time, it causes abnormal adaptations for opiate reception and many other brain receptors. Long-term suboxone taking causes emotional deregulation including loss of libido, irregular body system, hair loss etc.

Suboxone is composed of buprenorphine and naloxone. Buprenorphine is a strong opiate and naloxone is an opiate blocker which is meant to resist people from overdose of opiate. When there will be no opiates in the patient’s system for a few days, he can snort suboxone.

Nowadays many doctors are prescribing suboxone without giving it a second thought. This tendency of over prescribing may lead the patients to great danger. Suboxone must be prescribed, but only after considering all the aspects of the situation very well. A trained doctor will offer a complete treatment of suboxone in his clinic unlike the untrained doctors to leave this to the patient after prescribing it. Therefore it is very important to choose the right suboxone clinic.

Dr. Edward Gelber is a suboxone doctor who provides treatment to combat addiction, anxiety and depression, schizophrenia and many other psychiatric problems.

Sylvia Ellison is associated with www.gelbermd.com which is a psychiatric center and consultant psychiatrist. She loves to write about suboxone treatment.