What you need to know about suboxone withdrawal

Suboxone is promoting its name as a wonder drug and indicating its use to a large number of people who start dosing it without knowing the consequences. Most of the users don’t understand the side effects and even know the truth about it, until they got hook and realized that they’re into addiction to suboxone.

Suboxone is known as the first opiate addiction treatments approved for in-office prescribing under the federal drug addiction treatment act of 2000. Other popular buprenorphine brand names are temgesic and buprenex.  A buprenorphine monotherapy product called subutex, and a buprenorphine/naloxone combination product named as suboxone received FDA approval to market two product through Reckitt Benckiser in October 2002,  .

These two declared products by FDA are specified for use in opioid addiction treatment, with suboxone intended to reduce injection abuse. These drugs are currently the only schedule iii, iv, or v medications with FDA permission for this purpose. The FDA approval of these formulated buprenorphine drugs  does not amend the status of other related medication-assisted opioid addiction treatments, just to mention methadone and laam (levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol), both only available within the framework of an opioid treatment program.

Suboxone withdrawal and detox symptoms were a horrible experience to some who underwent the treatment. The most common reactions on patients during this period are restlessness and painful feeling. This is not to scare those who would like to attempt the withdrawal treatment, but rather, to let them prepare of the process they will be undergoing..

Someone who experienced suboxone said, “there’s no difference than coming off of opiates themselves.  However, in the end, you will either need to make a choice to withdrawal or to remain on suboxone as a maintenance drug, which he just not willing to do any longer. It is a delayer of the inevitable. While it is very possible to make withdrawal less unpleasant for some, the vast majority are still on it.”

Suboxone are also prescribe by physician office or suboxone doctors as part of a stimulation period meant  to find a secured daily dose for the patient called the maintenance level. The maintenance level is explained by a lack of withdrawal symptoms and the capacity of the patient to function comfortably.

The typical maintenance level:

• It ranges from 12 mg-16 mg. In addition, once the maintenance level is achieved, suboxone is administered to patient once daily.
• Normally the full maintenance dose is taken at one time every morning. Once the maintenance dose is completed, the patient may decide to reduce suboxone at any point thereafter.
• The tapering period normally lasts 2-4 weeks but may be significantly longer depending on the amount of the maintenance dose.
• During this tapering period, the daily suboxone dose is typically reduced every 2-5 days until the patient is entirely free of suboxone and opiates.

It’s a very unusual situation to see people regularly abuse suboxone. Most of the people who use it illegally do so when they can’t have their way to their preferred opiate like vicodin or heroin. Other benefit of using this drug for detoxification only is the short-term usage that inhibit people from using it in ways not intended by their addiction treatment team.  Do you want to know the success rate? Buprenorphine prevents withdrawal symptoms in the huge number of people. Research shows that buprenorphine is 50-100% more effective compared to other available treatments such as clonidine, and most of all a higher percentage of people who use buprenorphine completed their withdrawal treatment successfully.