Suboxone
Suboxone® combines buprenorphine and naloxone to reduce withdrawal symptoms while protecting against misuse.
Initially, people can become dependent on pain medication through doctor’s prescriptions for an accident or chronic ailments, or through recreational activities. Over time, as the body becomes dependent on the opiate, people use pain medication as a way to stop symptoms of withdrawal and less for pain reduction. To stop using can be almost impossible because the brain now craves the drug.
Our programs combine the latest in medically-assisted technology, therapy, and counseling options. Our medically-assisted treatment, based on buprenorphine (also known as Suboxone®, Zubsolv®, Bunavail®, Sublocade® or Subutex®) gets you off the pain medication so you can start concentrating on changing your life for the better.
We help you transition from the current pain medication and comfortably start you on your opiate dependence buprenorphine medication. On your initial visit, you will meet with our medical treatment team to have a personalized treatment plan created for you. We work with your insurance carrier to assist in cost reduction of the medication prescribed to you.
Over the first week of treatment, we monitor your pain levels and adjust your medication dose each day for optimal results. You will see your doctor frequently throughout the week to monitor the transition ensuring that alternative pain treatments are not needed. Once you are comfortable and stable, your ongoing treatment schedule is finalized.
You should expect your MAT to last for at least six months but often it can be a lifetime commitment depending on how severe your dependence is and what your goals are. At Brightside Recovery, our monthly monitoring schedule allows us to manage your condition with the right medication. We highly recommend using our counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) programs, such as our Brightside Recovery Program or partner programs.
You may reach a point where you feel comfortable in reducing your medication dosage. We work with patients at this stage in combination with counselors, therapists and partners to create a tapering schedule that will allow you to reduce your dosage in a comfortable and successful way to complete your treatment. Our policy is to slowly taper your dosage in a careful way for a more successful and stable result.
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