What is Suboxone Therapy? Benefits and How It Helps Manage Opioid Addiction

An opioid addiction can control your life, making you feel powerless. Suboxone treatment can help you achieve freedom from opioids so you can live your best life. Dr. Steven Fishburn at Meaningful Recovery of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, provides a wide range of addiction and recovery services, including suboxone therapy.

What You Need To Know About Suboxone

Suboxone is a medication available by prescription. It can be used to treat opioid addiction in adults and children over 15 years old. Suboxone combines two drugs: buprenorphine, which is an opioid substitute, and naloxone, which is an opioid antagonist. The two drugs work together to reduce cravings for the opioid by binding with the same brain receptors as an opioid.

The combination of drugs gives your body an incrementally smaller dose of opioids, allowing you to completely taper off opioids. Suboxone treatment is medically supervised and will:

• Reduce cravings
• Ease withdrawal symptoms
• Reduce the risk of relapse

Suboxone therapy is typically initiated as part of a multi-step process in your recovery. In addition to careful monitoring, your addiction specialist will also provide addiction medicine counseling. Counseling can help you replace unhealthy habits with healthy habits.

Suboxone therapy can have side effects, so you need to see your addiction specialist if you experience:

• Irritability and insomnia
• Mood swings and depression
• Nausea and vomiting
• Seizures and respiratory problems

Opioid addiction can have devastating consequences on your life and the lives of others around you. The guilt, remorse, and self-doubt can be difficult to live with. Suboxone treatment can help you get your life back.

Want To Know More About Suboxone Therapy?

You can get relief from opioid addiction, and suboxone therapy can help. To learn more about suboxone therapy and how it can help you, call Dr. Steven Fishburn at Meaningful Recovery of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. You can reach him in the office by calling (505) 596-4524, so call today.