Suboxone: How it Saves Lives of Opioid Addicts
You’re addicted to an opioid like heroin or morphine, and you need help. Going cold turkey might as well be going to Jupiter on a bicycle, and any treatment you’ve sought either didn’t work or you knew it wouldn’t. Well, guess what? Suboxone will help you recover from (and kick the ass of) your addiction. Despite not being used in treatment as commonly as it should, the fears and skepticisms regarding Suboxone pale in comparison with its positive effects.
Suboxone contains buprenorphine & naloxone, an opioid receptor modulator & an opioid effect blocker. This means Suboxone both blocks and regulates the opioids that go to your brain. Suboxone does not get you high. Suboxone is significantly less addicting than any drug it helps combat. You can do almost anything, as a human being. If what you have to do is put down the crap, consider a treatment with Suboxone.
Still think Suboxone can’t help?
In 1969, when being developed, the scientists wanted to create a drug “with structures substantially more complex than morphine [that] could retain the desirable actions whilst shedding the undesirable side effects.” They made a drug with the positive effects of opioids that lacks the negative side effects, or most of them. Why would this not be how you beat an opioid addiction? Not to mention, treatment with Suboxone often coincides with improving diet, exercising regularly, and even yoga or Tai chi.
Where can I go for this?
Many opioid addiction treatment facilities do not offer Suboxone. Reasons why not are usually one of the following:
- It is too temporary of a fix.
- It can be just as damaging/intoxicating as the illicit drugs.
- It is still a drug and we are abstinent from all drugs.
Let’s go ahead and debunk all three of those statements, and then show you where you can go if Suboxone sounds like your life-saver. Suboxone is not a temporary fix. While data is skewed due to an ongoing debate regarding it, many researchers agree that Suboxone can cure an opioid addiction 88% of the time. Up to 70% of those being treated stop all drug use, including that of Suboxone, within one year.
Suboxone cannot be as dangerous as the illicit drugs it helps treat. This would completely destroy any claim Suboxone has! The levels of opioids in Suboxone are significantly lower than in illicit drugs, and Suboxone is meant to ease the craving without the horrendous side effects of, say, heroin. How on this green Earth could Suboxone be even remotely as dangerous as the illicit drugs?
Lastly, yes, Suboxone is a drug. So is Advil. So is caffeine. So are the millions of prescriptions we Americans take daily. Chocolate can arguably be classified as drug-like. If a drug HELPS YOU, then it is a GOOD THING, so click here to find the closest facility to you that offers a Suboxone treatment.
You can do this, and you do not have to do it alone.