Comments on: Methadone and Suboxone: Effective Treatments or Recipes for Disaster? http://www.12stepsahead.com/methadone-and-suboxone-effective-treatments-or-recipes-for-disaster/ Addiction News, Stories, Daily Reflections and Recovery Blog Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:21:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Methadone and Suboxone: Effective Treatments or Recipes for … | My Blog http://www.12stepsahead.com/methadone-and-suboxone-effective-treatments-or-recipes-for-disaster/#comment-17789 Methadone and Suboxone: Effective Treatments or Recipes for … | My Blog Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:24:21 +0000 http://www.12stepsahead.com/?p=5000#comment-17789 [...] the article here: Methadone and Suboxone: Effective Treatments or Recipes for &… This entry was posted in Uncategorized by admin. Bookmark the [...]

]]> By: Bill http://www.12stepsahead.com/methadone-and-suboxone-effective-treatments-or-recipes-for-disaster/#comment-17781 Bill Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:55:07 +0000 http://www.12stepsahead.com/?p=5000#comment-17781 You failed to mention the use of Suboxone as a short term aid to detox. At our facilities we ameliorate the majority of symptoms with Suboxone during the first few days, tapering rapidly while supported by medical care. This substantially reduces the discomfort, while leaving the client drug-free at the end of detox. Maintenance treatments are only one use, and this protocol substantially reduces the cost of the drugs since they are administered for only a few days.

With regard to “rapid detox,” keeping patients under general anesthesia for longer than necessary for acute procedures verges on unethical medicine and is far more dangerous than other means.

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