Doctors prescribe Suboxone to help drug users become sober, to improve their lives, but addicts use Suboxone in ways that produce negative consequences.
Suboxone is a brand name for a drug created by combining buprenorphine and naloxone. This is why one of the nicknames for Suboxone is Bupe. Other street names include Sobos, Subs, Stops, Saboxin, or Oranges (for its orange color). Doctors prescribe Suboxone to help people withdrawing from similar drugs. These prescriptions make Suboxone more accessible than other types of medications used in the withdrawal process.
However, accessibility is not always positive. Some users take Suboxone as prescribed, and use it as a carefully controlled weapon in the arsenal against addiction. Other users do anything and everything they can to find Suboxone. They snort it, inject it, and use it purely to get high, regardless of the consequences. This use is Suboxone abuse: however, suboxone addiction treatment in California can treat this abuse.
Symptoms of Suboxone Use
Since Suboxone is an opioid, using it can produce many of the same side effects as other opioids. That is, using Suboxone could produce
- breathing and respiratory problems
- sleeping problems
- nausea
- agitation
Some users take Suboxone for longer periods of time than recommended. This is one of the signs of Suboxone addiction, which creates its own problems. Suboxone’s active ingredient, buprenorphine, has a half-life of more than thirty hours. This means that it takes more than thirty hours for the amount of buprenorphine in the body to drop by one-half. Since a day is twenty-four hours long, daily Suboxone users are just accumulating more and more of the substance in their bodies.
This accumulation can produces these symptoms of Suboxone addiction:
- constipation
- hair loss
- anxiety
- tooth loss
- thyroid problems
- diminished sex drives
- difficulties in dealing with pain
- unusual responses to dealing with stress
The human body is obviously not designed to handle the buildup of foreign substances. When the effects can harm, Suboxone addiction treatment in California can help. Such treatment can remove Suboxone and its effects, but can also help restore health.
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Detox of Suboxone and Withdrawal of Suboxone
During Suboxone abuse, users continue to take Suboxone, but cannot filter all of it out of their bodies. This leads to a buildup of Suboxone in users’ bodies. So it is important for users to go through Suboxone detox, though it may be difficult to endure.
Interestingly, doctors often prescribe Suboxone to patients withdrawing from other opioids. Suboxone addicts undergo a detox of Suboxone, while other drug abusers, such as Vicodin addicts, use Suboxone as a part of detox.
Users should not detox from Suboxone alone. A withdrawal of Suboxone can cause
- fever and chills
- nausea and sickness
- sweating
- sleep problems
- sore muscles
- headaches
- anxiety
- depression
That is why Suboxone addiction treatment in California is a good treatment option. Such treatment can help manage these symptoms using medicine and different kinds of therapy.
Recognizing Suboxone Addiction in California
Suboxone users might take great pains to hide their Suboxone addiction. But if users are obsessed with Suboxone, their drug habits have taken over many aspects of their lives. It will probably be easy to spot their Suboxone abuse. Addicts struggling with Suboxone addictions might experience
- slurred speech
- tiny pupils
- tiredness
- memory problems
- depression
- lack of interest in things
- risk-taking behavior
These signs of Suboxone addiction affect users physically. They can also hurt other areas of addicts’ lives. Users who are depressed might find it hard to relate to loved ones. Users experiencing memory problems might find it hard to do their jobs or complete schoolwork. Addicts might not even care about their loved ones, jobs, or schoolwork because they care more about finding Suboxone and using it.
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Treating Suboxone Addiction in California
In fact, Suboxone abuse can isolate users from loved ones at times when they need their loved ones the most. Suboxone addiction treatment in California might offer family therapy. Family therapy acknowledges that Suboxone abuse not only hurts users, but it also hurts families. Family therapy can help users reconnect to their families, and helps to fix what Suboxone abuse breaks.
Suboxone addiction treatment in California also offers other treatment options. Doctors sometimes use Suboxone to treat drug addiction and withdrawal. But what if users are addicted to Suboxone itself? These users might be reluctant to use medication as part of their Suboxone addiction treatment in California.
For these former users, holistic therapy might be a good treatment option. The goal of holistic therapy is to treat the body, the brain, and the spirit. To treat all these parts, holistic therapy uses practices such as yoga, meditation, and acupuncture. Suboxone addiction treatment in California often offers this option, as well as other options that do not use medication, such as exercise or nutritional counseling.
These options show that there are many treatments for Suboxone abuse. Treatment facilities such as Monarch Shores offer many of them. To explore these options, consider calling Monarch Shores.