Are you or a loved one addicted to opiates in Audubon, New Jersey or the surrounding communities? Interested in a sober lifestyle and overcoming addiction? At Clear Horizons Healthcare we are proud to offer suboxone treatment in Audubon, NJ for patients that are dependent upon opioids (including Codeine, Hydrocodone, Vicodin, Hycodan, Morphine, MS Contin, Kadian, Oxycodone, Oxycontin, Percoset, Hydromorphone, Dilaudid), Fentanyl and even Duragesic). Suboxone has been a proven effective in the treatment of opiate addiction, in a recent study, results have shown that approximately 49 percent of participants given suboxone treatment reduced prescription painkiller abuse during their extended (at least 12-week) Suboxone treatment. The recovery success rate dropped to 8.6 percent once Suboxone treatment was discontinued.

What is Suboxone (Buprenorphine)?

Suboxone is a prescription medication that combines buprenorphine and naloxone. Suboxone is used to treat opioid addiction. Buprenorphine belongs to a class of drugs known as “opioid partial agonists”, which can help relieve symptoms of opiate withdrawal.

How Does Suboxone Help Patients?

When administered, Suboxone moves onto the opioid receptors in the dependent patient’s brain, doing four important things:

First, when binding to the brain’s opioid receptors, Suboxone can satisfy the dependent person’s craving for an opioid. This suppresses the withdrawal symptoms and drug cravings associated with opioids.

Second, due to the fact, Suboxone excites the brain’s opioid receptors minorly – it is a partial agonist – meaning the addicted patient does not get the same effects that would be caused by full agonists such as a prescription painkiller, heroin, or even methadone.

Third, once administered, Suboxone sticks to the brain’s receptors for days so that other opioids have great difficulty attaching.

Finally, although all opioids lower breathing, including Suboxone, when it is taken alone and as directed by a healthcare professional, it has an upper limit on how much it lowers breathing. Suboxone’s “ceiling effect” makes an overdose death from lowered breathing highly unlikely, when buprenorphine is used by itself.

Suboxone Safety

Even though Suboxone has a “safety feature”, patients should be very careful about taking Suboxone while using ANY other sedatives, especially benzodiazepines. Patients being treated with buprenorphine also should not use tranquillizers, antidepressants, or sedatives except under a doctor’s orders, and they should avoid alcohol.

Start Audubon Suboxone Treatment Today

Are you or a loved one interested in beating opioid addiction? Contact Clear Horizons Healthcare today, we are proud to offer opioid treatment in Audubon and would be happy to provide you with the care you deserve.