Our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach is one option for the treatment of opiate addiction. It’s valuable for many people because opiates are so addictive that it’s practically impossible to “quit cold turkey” when you’re addicted to these drugs. Not to mention, less than 25 percent of patients who quit using opiates “cold turkey” remain clean and sober after the first year. Opiate addiction is a chronic condition with a high relapse rate; our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program mitigates the risk of relapse.
How Our Suboxone Treatment Delray Beach Program Works
Patients who enter our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program receive a medical evaluation from our physician, Dr. Raul Rodriguez, who has more than ten years of experience treating opiate addiction and personally spearheaded the development of outpatient opiate treatment programs like our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program.
On the first day of our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program, the recovering opiate addict is given a dose of Suboxone sufficient to relieve their symptoms entirely. It’s important that the addict experience complete relief of symptoms throughout our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program, to reduce the risk of relapse.
Over the course of our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program, the recovering opiate addict is slowly weaned off the drugs until he or she can finally stop taking Suboxone with few or no withdrawal symptoms. Unlike methadone maintenance programs, our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program allows you to obtain your medication in the privacy of a doctor’s office. You’ll be allowed to take a supply of your medication home with you to take each day at the time that’s best for you. We recommend you take your medication in the morning, since it can cause a boost of energy. Some people who take Suboxone at night report problems sleeping.
How Our Suboxone Treatment Delray Beach Program Is Different from Drug Abuse
People who claim that opiate maintenance programs like our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program are just legitimizing drug abuse or “replacing one addiction with another” do not understand the nature and efficacy of opiate maintenance programs. Taking Suboxone under the supervision of a doctor is not drug abuse, for several reasons. They include:
- Taking Suboxone as part of our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program does not get you high. Buprenorphine, the active ingredient in Suboxone, is a partial opioid agonist, meaning it only stimulates the brain’s opioid receptors enough to relieve withdrawal symptoms – but not to cause the euphoria that makes opiate drugs so addictive.
- If a person participating in our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program does take a full opioid agonist – like morphine, heroin or prescription painkillers – he or she won’t feel the effects of the opioid. Naloxone, another ingredient in Suboxone, will block those effects. Therefore, our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program prevents illegal drug abuse.
- People taking Suboxone as part of our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program aren’t doing it recreationally or to have a good time. They’re taking Suboxone to treat the symptoms of a medical condition, in this case, opiate addiction.
- Our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program ends the high-low cycle of addiction. People in our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program no longer swing from the euphoria of an opiate high to the agony of opiate withdrawals. Along with eliminating withdrawal symptoms, the treatment also removes the euphoric highs. The recovering addict is evened out – he or she feels normal and can function normally. Drug abuse does not allow a person to function or feel normal.
Our Suboxone Treatment Delray Beach Program Is Effective
Studies show that programs like our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program are effective – in one study conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 650 people struggling with addiction to prescription painkillers were treated with Suboxone, in a program similar to our Suboxone treatment Delray Beach program. Forty-nine percent of the study participants experienced improvement while being treated with Suboxone.