Treatment

Scientists have discovered that any habit is formed by repetition. It is like a new road. The more people travel the wider and faster the road becomes. It can be overgrown trail or a highway, depending on number of travelers. Medication Assisted Treatment is utilizing this quality of our nervous system. While Psychological counseling, Behavioral therapy, Social readjustment and abstinence from drugs form new habits - new roads in your brain, medications help you to keep using this safe road without wandering around. Together Counseling and Medications provide a winning combination for treatment of Opioid Addiction.

Most commonly used medication to assist you in this journey is Suboxone or its analogs such as Subutex, Buprenorphine, Subsolv and others. Their function is to combat withdrawal symptoms and suppress craving for other opioids.

Suboxone is an opioid, but it is unique in that it connects to brain receptors and relieves craving and withdrawal but it attaches so tight that other opioids are unable to displace it from this connection. At the same time it has very weak effect and does not make you "high". 

After a while, when healthy lifestyle is established, you are gainfully working, you participate in social activities, develop new friends and relationships, reconnect with your family with help of counseling and medication, you can slowly taper down the dose of Suboxone and be drug free for the rest of your life. 

When compared to continued illegal drug use, in-patient or residentian programs MAT is low cost option of treatment of opioid addiction.

Your can continue your regular job, live with your family, participate in your favorite activities ( except drug use ) and learn to be drug free in your current familiar environment.

You do not need to re-learn to live in an environment outside the treatment facility after completing treatment program.

However it is most important to  understand that even so weak, Suboxone is an opioid medication that has same side effects as other opioids and it's misuse may result in serious injury and even deaths and is highly controlled by DEA so all rules of controlled substances will apply. 

Your doctor will check you for an illicit drug use with urine drug screens and you record in Florida Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. You have to sign an agreement with your doctor regarding proper handling of the medication and guarantee that your medication is under lock and key to protect others.