Suboxone for pain treatment
Common Questions and Answers about Suboxone for pain treatment
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You do not need a special "license" to treat patients with suboxone for chronic pain. You do need a special "license" to treat patients with suboxone for opiate dependence. In order to treat addiction patients with suboxone, a doctor needs to complete an 8 hour class in addiction treatment and then they are granted a federal waiver in order or prescribe it for addiction treatment. A quick google search will tell you, or your doctor about this.
Even if you were taking percocets, I would still tell you that suboxone is a lot smarter choice for you as far as a treatment program goes for you. Methadone is very addictive, suboxone is a swell, but it takes longer, and the withdrawals are a little milder than methadone. Methadone wd's are by far the worst out of any opiate/opioid out there. Both suboxone and methadone last a long time compared to norcos or percs, whereas they last for 4-6 hrs.
wow I will tell you this suboxone is NOT AT ALL FOR PAIN. I know I tried suboxone and I have true pain and it did nothing for my pain and I also know others that have tried also and same nothing for pain. He should have told you why switch if you ask me something is up and he thinks you have some kind of problem he the only doctor you go to....Something is not being told make no sense at all.
//www.naabt.org they will offer you support and a treatment locator is also , Opiate addiction is a treatable chronic disease of the brain.
Are you gonna go to rehab or do you just plan on getting on suboxone? I'm not sure if it's an option for you but since your brother went to rehab I'm guessing the option is there for you. If so, I would do an inpatient rehab and pass on suboxone unless all else fails. Suboxone can be a lifesaver and I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Just be sure to do plenty of research and realize you will have to withdrawal from it unless you plan to stay on it forever.
And although my dr says i need 6 a day from my disease i am going to go as low as i can to see how the pain will do and see if there is any vitamins i can take to make the pain better. I heard the l-throzine is good for energy and subside the pain, but i can only take that for a little bit because i need to start back on my anti-depressants and you can't mix the two. I'm glad by 7 months you realize you needed to be off the stuff.
my hubby is addicted to pain pills. he came home from treatment yesterday and has been prescribed suboxone. his treatment plan is as follows: he takes 4 mg. 3x a day. he has to go to therapy @ the treatment center once a week and see a dr. about his dose and have a drug test, and he has to attend 5 AA/NA meetings a week. the plan seems like a good one to me and i know it will be a long process.
The confusion here may be that Suboxone and Subutex are generally prescribed to treat addiction and not normally considered for pain management. Suboxone and Subutex are two drugs that have been approved by the FDA for the treatment of opiate addiction.
Both medications contain the main active ingredient Buprenorphine which stops the craving and withdrawal symptoms as well as it is a partial agonist. However Subutex does not contain an additional ingredient which is called Naloxone.
yes the subutex is to treat pain. When I first got clean 11 months ago I went off everything. After about 5 months of being in and out of hospitals and using short acting pain meds (my husband issued them to me as needed) my docs thought subutex was a better solution. It works well --but like I said --I have guilt.
Has anyone else here gone on the suboxone for chronic pain relief.This is what my doc is using it for on me-I see most of you are on it for detox....I was wanting of fthe dilaudud as I was afraid of becoming addicted.(And was constipated all the time so he put me on naltrexone for the chronic constipation I was on.Ended up in hospital 4-6x for this.,the naltrexone worked great to help me go also using the miralax as added supplement.
I have been off of Sub for 11 days now. The pain keeps coming but I can feel the light at the end of the tunnel. Below is a message from Dr. Scanlan that may help people choose.
One addiction is potentially being traded for another as the FDA-approved detoxification drug Suboxone is becoming one of the most prescribed medications in the country. Known as the “miracle drug,” Suboxone is estimated to be 25 times more potent than morphine.
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