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Are you or a loved one suffering from drug addiction?
-Are you wondering how to escape from the misery and risk of drug addiction?
Most people cannot become sober on their own. They need medical help to return to normal healthy living. One important form of help to a patient with an addiction problem is called Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
There are three equally important parts of this form of treatment:
—Medications
—Counseling
—Support from family & friends
* The staff at Yafa Health can help you with your treatment
Opioid Addiction is a Disease
If you are taking opioids regularly you can become dependent on them. This means that if you stop taking them, you will feel sick. This sickness is called withdrawal. Dependence is not the same as addiction, but sometimes dependence leads to addiction. Opioid addiction is a chronic disease, like heart disease or diabetes. A chronic disease is a medical condition for life. It cannot be cured, but it can be managed. A person with addiction can regain a healthy, productive life. The signs of addiction are:
Craving: The mind develops an overwhelming desire for the drug.
Loss of control: Use becomes compulsive & harder to say no to using drugs; & use continues despite the harm.
Opioid Addiction Can be Treated
If you are like most people, you cannot walk away from addiction on your own. Medication-Assisted Treatment includes the use of medication along with counseling and other support methods, which makes it the best addiction treatment. Treatment helps you give up the drug problem. It helps you get through withdrawal and cope with cravings. Treatment also helps you change addictive thinking into nonaddictive, healthful patterns. It can help you move away from other harmful behaviors, too, such as drinking alcohol or abusing other drugs besides the opioid problem.
Medication Used to Treat Opioid Addiction
Buprenorphine is one medication commonly used to treat opioid addiction. Now available in a weekly or monthly injection. The person who takes buprenorphine feels normal, not high. However, the brain thinks it is receiving the problem opioid drug, so withdrawal symptoms stay away. Buprenorphine also reduces cravings.
Suboxone contains buprenorphine plus naloxone; naloxone is added to prevent abuse.
Subutex contains only buprenorphine. You are unlikely to overdose on buprenorphine if you take it properly.
Methadone is another opioid treatment that requires daily visits to a methadone clinic to receive the daily dose. (Not offered by Yafa Health)
Brixadi Monthly Injection
Brixadi Monthly Injection
A newly FDA-approved subcutaneous injection of extended-release buprenorphine that can be given as a weekly or monthly injection is available now for the treatment of opioid addiction. It comes in a small amount that gets administered by using a small needle and doesn't leave a depot under the skin. It contains only buprenorphine, and You are unlikely to overdose on buprenorphine if you take it properly as prescribed.
For more information, visit www.brixadi.com/
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