Saturday, September 13, 2008

Suboxone Contains Buprenorphine And Naxalone

Health, Addiction And Recovery.

Drug detox that's medically supervised can ease withdrawal symptoms - although many people dependant on or addicted to oxycontin and other prescription painkillers, would like to, and even heroin get off them, sometimes withdrawal is just too hard to face. And they' re very reluctant to go through that again.


They' ve tried it, and have experienced such agonizing pain and discomfort that they' re driven back to the drug. - in some cases, getting off one of these drugs can also be medically dangerous. One of the medications used in medical drug detox centers is Suboxone(R) . Fortunately, we now have medical drug detox available to both ease the pain of withdrawal and ensure that it' s safe. It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2002 and is administered in tablet form by doctors who have been approved by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a department in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The buprenorphine activates the same receptors activated by heroin, the active ingredient, morphine and oxycodone in OxyContin but to a lesser degree. Suboxone contains buprenorphine and naxalone.


Naxalone by itself blocks the effects of the opiates but if the Suboxone is taken as directed, placed under the tongue and allowed to dissolve, it will not affect the action of the buprenorphine. - some people have tried to use suboxone to get high thinking that they' ll get the same effect from the buprenorphine as from heroin or opate prescription painkillers. Unlike heroin, OxyContin and other opiate prescription painkillers, the euphoric effects of buprenorphine are limited - they don' t go beyond a certain point no matter how much is used. The usually crush the pills and inject them. When using Suboxone to help with withdrawal, you have to wait until the withdrawal symptoms become stronger and the opiates are mostly out of your system. But used in this way, the naxalone gets into the bloodstream so quickly that it brings on intensely painful withdrawal.


If you still have the opiates in your bloodstream, the naxalone can cause acute and painful withdrawal - which can also be medically dangerous. - in an inpatient medical detox facility this is usually completed in a matter of days. The Suboxone dose is then properly tapered until you no longer need it. Using Suboxone in an inpatient medical drug detox program can make withdrawal symptoms much milder and more comfortable. If you would like to find out more about drug detox with Suboxone, contact a counselor at a medical drug detox center.

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