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Before You Visit Those Suboxone Doctors Dallas

By Dennis West


Opium or opiate based narcotics are substances that are hard to break away from. As such, one cannot just go cold turkey if one decides to quit intakes of opiates, it is just not possible and can be downright dangerous. Before going to any several suboxone doctors Dallas in your area to cure your addiction, do read on in this article to more of about the drug and reactions related to it.

Thus longtime opiate users need to go down the moderate path and slowly substitute their dependence with a synthetic one called Suboxone, or its generic name Buprenorphine. The drug is designed to alleviate dependence upon heroin, hydrocodone, OxyContin, morphine, codeine and fentanyl, and other methadone type drugs.

The drug can be introduced or administered via several means. This can either be done orally, via the skin using a film, by injection and even nasally. The drug has been known to retain its effects several hours beyond its first introduction in the body. As such this drug should never be given to children as it will cause fatal or near fatal respiratory conditions.

The drug is known as a painkiller in smaller dosages, and most doctors do provide Suboxone as a short term relief drug for those with degenerative disc disorder or stenosis. Most will feel high when first using the drug. Those patients previously prescribed Vicodin and other painkillers will say that Suboxone is far much superior in pain alleviation.

Long term use of the substance can in general result in overall abnormal responses to stress, hair loss, inability to accept and manage one's own emotions and loss of interest in sex. Abuse of the drug however can exhibit a wide range of physical symptoms from vomiting, nausea, digestive disorders, sweating, drowsiness, insomnia and more.

Most opiate users will use Suboxone as a way to prevent or delay the occurrence of withdrawal symptoms when using other opiates such as heroin. Others however have learned to abuse it as an alternative drug, using the substance as a guise in seeking treatment. Seizures related to the use and abuse of buprenorphine has been recorded as high in the states of Massachusetts, Maine, New York and West Virginia.

Deaths have also been reported when Suboxone was mixed with alcohol during drug sessions. Dangerous combinations have also been reported when taken with Xanax, or alprazolam. Despite this risk, many users still do it due to a created euphoria akin to class A grade heroin. In all a total of 844 drugs are known to interact with this drug so one must be extra vigilant when prescribed this. Of these 844 interactions, 261 can be deemed as major and can lead to severe consequences.

This article has covered some basic information on the usage of suboxone. This is a dangerous drug not to be trifled with so you will need all the information you need before any treatment involving it in the long term.




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