Suboxone Treatment

Because of its efficacy in treating opioid use disorders (OUDs), suboxone is often used as part of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to achieve lasting recovery. At Roaring Brook Recovery’s suboxone clinic in Lexington, KY, participants benefit from evidence-based treatment and a high level of care in our intensive outpatient program (IOP) or partial hospitalization program (PHP). To learn more about addiction treatment services in Lexington, KY, call Roaring Brook at 855.590.9944.

Are you struggling with opioid misuse and starting to think about how to change the trajectory of your life? Have you had a relapse and want to secure your sobriety once and for all? If so, suboxone treatment in Lexington, KY, can help you immeasurably. Let the professional staff at Roaring Brook Recovery answer your questions about suboxone and MAT.

What Is Suboxone?

Suboxone combines two drugs. In the 1980s, Buprenorphine and naltrexone were both developed and approved by the FDA separately, then later combined as Suboxone.

Buprenorphine is an opioid agonist. This medication:

• Binds with the opioid receptors in your brain, preventing other opioids from doing so while easing cravings
• Stops withdrawal symptoms by inciting minor opioid effects
• Does not create a high but helps users feel normal
• Removes drug cravings
• Does not lead to tolerance due to its slow action

Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist. This medication:

• Also attaches to opioid receptors, reducing the effects of any opioid agonist that is introduced
• Creates no high, euphoria, or psychotropic effects at all
• Reduces the risk for relapse because opioids that are introduced no longer create the sought-after effect

Thus, one drug, by making it believe its cravings have been met, appeases the brain enough to ease physical cravings and the discomfort of withdrawal. At the same time, you are prevented from getting high or addicted. This leaves your brain free and healthy and returning to normal functioning—without opioids.

Suboxone Treatment Combined with Therapy

The efficacy of Suboxone is remarkable. It both prevents intoxication and reduces cravings, making it a significant part of recovery from opioid addiction. Because it reduces physical relapse triggers, it helps those in recovery focus on the other aspects of healing.

We recommend a combined, coordinated approach that utilizes a medication, for example, Suboxone, with psychotherapies that will help you address the deeper issues underlying your original opioid use. Non-physical triggers such as mental health challenges, old habits or lifestyle, people who pressure you to use, and stress from work, school, or relationships—can all affect your recovery if you do not address them in therapy.

Suboxone treatment in Lexington, KY, at Roaring Brook Recovery is one of the fundamental evidence-based strategies we use in treating OUDs. But if you have a co-occurring mental health disorder, you may have turned to substances to self-medicate your symptoms. Past trauma, severe anxiety, depression, and other all-too-common mental health concerns need to be addressed along with addiction.

Some of the therapies Roaring Brook provides in Lexington, KY, in conjunction with Suboxone treatment, are:

• Neurofeedback therapy
• Rational emotive behavior therapy
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)

Whether in individual, group, or family therapy, the benefits of evidence-based modalities in conjunction with suboxone treatment are many.