Medical Management Suboxone Drug Therapy
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Three reasons a Suboxone Doctor can help with your alcohol and drug issues (heroin withdrawal, opioid withdrawal symptoms, or methadone withdrawal). Whatever withdrawal signs and symptoms you are currently experiencing, let one of our Christian methadone treatment centers help you with your severe addiction!
You may hear it at 12 Step meetings, or if you were to ask the average person on the street: Suboxone and Methadone are just switching addictions! You are not really “clean”. This is one of the most damaging and life threatening myths currently in the Christian recovery community. This myth has caused people to not reach out and get the gold standard of Christian treatment for opiate addicts. This myth may be responsible for overdose deaths of opiate addicts! Methadone was invented in Nazi Germany in the 30’s as a powerful painkiller that would allow wounded soldiers to keep fighting in battle despite being seriously, even lethally wounded. It is a synthetic opiate with a half-life of three full days, unlike other synthetic opiates such as Lortab or Norco’s which have a half-life of less than 5 hours, or even heroin with a half-life of about 3-4 hours. |
Once World War II was over, German scientists who had defected to the West, brought the formula for methadone with them. In the United States, it was mostly used for the treatment of end-stage cancers. It allowed the patient who was suffering tremendous pain to be coherent and able to visit with friends and family and remain pain free until the very end. In the 1960’s and early 1970’s, doctors at VA hospitals realized that a great number of Vietnam veterans were suffering with drug addiction to either power painkillers such as morphine, or to heroin they had become addicted too overseas. They switched those on painkillers and heroin over to methadone and found that those veterans could now function, and return to their communities and employment. Those with severe injuries were able to tolerate physical therapies and healed faster.
Following the VA logic, doctors began treating heroin addicts in clinics called Methadone clinics all over the country. They saw a sharp decrease in overdose deaths, a return of functioning and combined with therapy or group therapy, a transformation in the addict’s life. At first it was presumed that once started on methadone the patient would have to remain on methadone for life. In the 1990’s, there began a movement to detox methadone patients very slowly, over a period of time while increasing counseling and support services. The Methadone clinics began to see that a patient could successfully recover and be off of methadone. This is the accepted method today. Between 6-12 months to stabilize and then begin a well-controlled medical detox.
Suboxone came about in the early 2000’s in response to patients who did not want to attend a clinic daily, needed pain management or were addicted to opioid pain pills because of a medical condition. Suboxone uses a synthetic opiate as well as Naloxone, to not only cure withdrawals, but also block the effects of other opiates. Suboxone is now used widely in Methadone clinics as well as through private physicians. Suboxone offers patients an alternative to daily dosing and a more regular routine.
Following the VA logic, doctors began treating heroin addicts in clinics called Methadone clinics all over the country. They saw a sharp decrease in overdose deaths, a return of functioning and combined with therapy or group therapy, a transformation in the addict’s life. At first it was presumed that once started on methadone the patient would have to remain on methadone for life. In the 1990’s, there began a movement to detox methadone patients very slowly, over a period of time while increasing counseling and support services. The Methadone clinics began to see that a patient could successfully recover and be off of methadone. This is the accepted method today. Between 6-12 months to stabilize and then begin a well-controlled medical detox.
Suboxone came about in the early 2000’s in response to patients who did not want to attend a clinic daily, needed pain management or were addicted to opioid pain pills because of a medical condition. Suboxone uses a synthetic opiate as well as Naloxone, to not only cure withdrawals, but also block the effects of other opiates. Suboxone is now used widely in Methadone clinics as well as through private physicians. Suboxone offers patients an alternative to daily dosing and a more regular routine.
