Suboxone

With medications like Suboxone®, people with opioid use disorder can reduce cravings, ease withdrawal symptoms, and improve their chances of long-term recovery. At Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry, Tammi Bancroft, FNP-C, provides personalized Suboxone treatment as part of a comprehensive addiction recovery plan. Tammi offers in-person and virtual care from the practice's main location in Colorado and also provides virtual appointments for patients throughout Arizona. To learn more about Suboxone treatment, call the office or request an appointment online today.

What is Suboxone®?

Suboxone is a prescription medication for the treatment of opioid addiction. Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry is an addiction medicine practice that sees all patients through telehealth services, including patients struggling with opioid addiction.

Through their virtual visits, they offer patients confidentiality and convenience. These two factors may play a significant role in helping those patients struggling with opioid addiction who need privacy and flexibility to get the right help. 

Suboxone is one of the practice’s treatments to support recovery from opioid addiction. 

How does Suboxone work?

Suboxone works by controlling cravings and withdrawal symptoms from opioid addiction. The medication contains two key ingredients: buprenorphine and naloxone.

Buprenorphine

Buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist, which means it acts on the brain like an opioid, but to a much lesser extent. This medication helps control cravings for the drug and reduces withdrawal symptoms.

Because buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist, taking more of it doesn’t change how the drug works. This action makes it impossible for people to misuse buprenorphine.

Naloxone

Naloxone is an opioid agonist that blocks opioids in the brain from reaching the neurotransmitters. Suboxone comes in the form of a sublingual film that dissolves on your tongue. This medication delivery method prevents activation of the naloxone.

However, if you misuse your Suboxone prescription and take it any other way, like by injection, it activates the naloxone, immediately sending you into withdrawal.

In addition to the medication, Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry also provides medication-assisted treatment (MAT), which combines Suboxone with behavioral therapy. MAT takes a whole-person approach to addiction, treating the physical and psychological symptoms.

Am I a candidate for Suboxone?

Schedule a consultation at Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry to see if you’re a candidate for Suboxone. Tammi can prescribe Suboxone to treat opioid addiction. 

If you have an opioid addiction and you’re ready to stop, then treatment at Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry could be right for you. Before starting Suboxone, you must stop taking your opioid medication for a set period to prevent withdrawal symptoms.

In addition to your desire to stop and your agreement to take Suboxone as prescribed, you must also participate in behavioral therapy. 

Suboxone supports recovery from opioid addiction. To find out more about treatment options at Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry, call the office or request an appointment online today.