Suboxone Maintenance Programs Mean Living Normal Again

Living with opioid addiction used to be a curse. Suboxone maintenance programs have changed all of that for good.

The stigma associated with addiction was once only related to heroin addicts living under a bridge, surviving only to get high and getting high only to survive.

The treatments were minimal, too. Methadone was just about the only solution, other than long-term rehabs, pushing people past the first six to twelve months after quitting, which were painful months at best. Even then, the cravings could and did continue, sometimes popping up in the most unlikely of times and places.

Suboxone Maintenance Means Fewer Relapses

Maybe the most sad part of being in group recovery like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous is hearing about a long-term person in recovery going back to his or her old ways. For alcoholics and addicts it’s usually much more than just a big night on the town. Often times, it’s 3, 4 or even 7 day binges of being impossible to find, while leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Relapses for real alcoholics and addicts are often devastating.

A Suboxone maintenance program virtually eliminates relapse. Not only does buprenorphine and naloxone provide chemical reasons for detouring and even blocking opioid use, there’s much more to it. As a Suboxone user I can tell you from personal experience that I simply no longer desire to use or abuse any opioids. The physical and psychological desire to use opioids vanished the very first day I started my Suboxone maintenance program. That was over 8 years ago, and I feel better than ever.

Enter the pain pill epidemic in the late 1990’s that has carried over into the 2020’s and we still have an opioid epidemic on our hands.

“The physical and psychological desire to use opioids vanished the very first day I started my Suboxone maintenance program. That was over 8 years ago.”

People still do heroin, and people still take pain pills. The difference now is where they get their drug of choice and how they take it. No longer is heroin ever heroin. Heroin is now fentanyl for the most part. Street-made oxycodone pills are now deadly doses of fentanyl, and I can’t even say if they contain oxycodone at all. For a long time heroin was the drug of choice for addicts, coming from overseas nearly pure quality, cut down only to reduce strength and increase profits. Fentanyl has changed all of that, and not for the better. We’ve written many an article about fentanyl and even had a post banned from Google My Business titled, “People are Dying from Fake Oxycodone Pills Laced with Fentanyl”.

That’s okay though, we’re not stopping our education about fentanyl because it’s simply gotten too dangerous not to. People are dying from fentanyl every day, period.

If You Haven’t Watched Dopesick on Hulu, You’re Missing Out

I’ve been working in the addiction space for the last five years and struggled with addiction for thirteen years between 2000 and 2013. I thought I knew a lot about addiction. Dopesick showed me that the Sackler family (makers of OxyContin at Purdue Pharma) we’re busy spreading their good word as early as 1997 with brilliant marketing campaigns toting safe remedies for “chronic pain” and “breakthrough pain”, the second of which they created as a marketing ploy when OxyContin started wearing off well before it’s 12 hours of continuous pain relief.

Imagine – Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin pills were falling short of it’s promises to deliver 12-hours of pain relief. When countless patients started expressing their pain was coming back after only 8-10 hours, the Sackler Family sought a remedy. Instead of changing the labeling to 8-10 hours of extended relief, they opted to created a new term for the medical community, and sadly it worked. “Breakthrough pain” was coined by the Sackler Family and was introduced to the medical community for the purpose of identifying when their extended release OxyContin was falling short. The solution? “Double the Dose”. Double the Dose was the name of the campaign Purdue Pharma’s reps pushed to doctors everywhere which meant prescribing twice as much OxyContin and of course increasing Purdue Pharma profits.

The result is, there are now more drug overdoses in the U.S. annually then there are car crashes and gun deaths combined. How sick are these people? It is estimated that over 300,000 deaths have been correlated with OxyContin since its inception. And, despite paying out hundreds of millions in lawsuit-related fines, the Sackler family members are still in the top-10 richest families in the world.

Suboxone to the Rescue

Suboxone is not a cure-all, but it’s damn close. Never have I seen a drug deliver such miraculous results as Suboxone does. Based on my personal experience and having witnessed almost 2000 people make the transition from powerful opioids to Suboxone, I can say it’s definitely a miracle drug. Here’s what I’ve seen Suboxone do for me and many others:

• Eliminate withdrawals
• Eliminate cravings and the desire to chase pills (or whatever else I might crave)
• Provides a feeling of well being
• Allowed me to sleep normal again
• Increased my appetite
• Restored my sex drive / libido
• Made me regular again (vs. being constipated 24/7)
• Allowed me to get back to work with a vengeance
• Provided focus and clarity when needing to think and plan important things
• Is transparent to everyone else (no one knows you’re taking it because you’re back to acting and living like a normal human being)
• Made me feel normal again

I made the decision years ago that I might be on Suboxone for a long time and I’m 100% okay with that. I see it as an investment in my life. I know exactly what it’s like when I crave opiates. For me, opiates are disastrous. They drive me to do things I never thought I would do. Things like lying to my family, and friends, spending money to get pills when I didn’t have the money to spend. Going to places I don’t belong when I needed to get more pills.

Me on Opiates Leads to a Disaster for Everyone. Suboxone fixes all of this by making the desire to use unimportant so I can think and act like a normal human being. I’ve seen it work for me, and I’ve seen it work for almost 2000 other people. Suboxone works.

Start a Suboxone Maintenance Program Today at Recovery Care of Columbia

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