Houston Suboxone Doctors 2 Tips for Opiate Drug Addiction Treatment

Willpower alone won’t heal a broken arm or stop asthma. Also, opiate drug addiction  can’t be defeated by willpower alone. Especially when those cravings and withdrawal symptoms can overtake your every thought. It makes it difficult, and even impossible, to quit without help.

Fortunately, there is a very successful treatment available for those with opiate addiction. It is Suboxone (buprenorphine and naltrexone).

Whether you have an addiction to prescription painkillers, like OxyContin®, Vicodin®, Percocet®, or an addiction to heroin, your brain’s chemistry has likely become altered to rely on the drugs. And when your brain tells you that you must have the drugs, it can become too much to resist.

2 problems must be addressed when treating opioid dependence: dependence and tolerance. Dependence makes you feel like you can’t live without the drugs. Tolerance is when you need more and more of the drug to have the same desired effects. This leads to the need to take larger and larger doses of the drug. Both conditions, the dependence and the tolerance, need treatment with a partial agonist (Suboxone) that will attach to the opiate receptors and help control withdrawals and cravings.

Suboxone is effective in stopping the acute withdrawal symptoms of opiate addiction and the long term maintenance needs to help prevent relapse of opiate addiction.   

Detox with Suboxone doesn’t require hospitalization.   To learn more, visit Houston Suboxone Doctors Rehab Clinic.

Make an Appointment