| Although many people dependant on or addicted | | | | Unlike heroin, OxyContin and other opiate |
| to OxyContin and other prescription painkillers, and | | | | prescription painkillers, the euphoric effects of |
| even heroin, would like to get off them, | | | | buprenorphine are limited - they don't go beyond |
| sometimes withdrawal is just too hard to face. | | | | a certain point no matter how much is used. |
| They've tried it, and have experienced such | | | | Some people have tried to use Suboxone to get |
| agonizing pain and discomfort that they're driven | | | | high thinking that they'll get the same effect from |
| back to the drug. And they're very reluctant to | | | | the buprenorphine as from heroin or opate |
| go through that again. In some cases, getting off | | | | prescription painkillers. The usually crush the pills |
| one of these drugs can also be medically | | | | and inject them. But used in this way, the |
| dangerous. Fortunately, we now have medical | | | | naxalone gets into the bloodstream so quickly |
| drug detox available to both ease the pain of | | | | that it brings on intensely painful withdrawal. |
| withdrawal and ensure that it's safe. | | | | When using Suboxone to help with withdrawal, |
| One of the medications used in medical drug | | | | you have to wait until the withdrawal symptoms |
| detox centers is SuboxoneÂ(R). It was | | | | become stronger and the opiates are mostly out |
| approved by the Food and Drug Administration in | | | | of your system. If you still have the opiates in |
| 2002 and is administered in tablet form by | | | | your bloodstream, the naxalone can cause acute |
| doctors who have been approved by the | | | | and painful withdrawal - which can also be |
| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services | | | | medically dangerous. |
| Administration, a department in the United States | | | | The Suboxone dose is then properly tapered until |
| Department of Health and Human Services. | | | | you no longer need it. In an inpatient medical |
| Suboxone contains buprenorphine and naxalone. | | | | detox facility this is usually completed in a matter |
| The buprenorphine activates the same receptors | | | | of days. |
| activated by heroin, morphine and oxycodone, the | | | | Using Suboxone in an inpatient medical drug detox |
| active ingredient in OxyContin but to a lesser | | | | program can make withdrawal symptoms much |
| degree. Naxalone by itself blocks the effects of | | | | milder and more comfortable. If you would like to |
| the opiates but if the Suboxone is taken as | | | | find out more about drug detox with Suboxone, |
| directed, placed under the tongue and allowed to | | | | contact a counselor at a medical drug detox |
| dissolve, it will not affect the action of the | | | | center. |
| buprenorphine. | | | | |