Medically Assisted Sobriety Can Addicts Be Considered Sober?

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 09, 2018 -- A new article released by The Recover offers insight about the stigma surrounding Medication assisted treatments, a now growing and widely used method of treating opiate addiction. The medication Buprenorphine, also known most commonly as Suboxone has been scrutinized by many, seen as a replacing one drug for another.

Medically Assisted Sobriety Can Addicts Be Considered Sober?

Suboxone is a medication created to treat opioid dependence, and it contains both buprenorphine and Naloxone. It is considered a partial opioid, which means it produces a mild form of the effect of actual opioids without the same high. It is said it cannot be taken to achieve full opioid effect, which means it is more difficult to abuse than other forms of medication assisted treatment, like methadone. The Naloxone inside the drug is a type of receptive blocker, which is supposed to make it more difficult to get high. Some patients who use these types of medication have a lesser chance of relapse from prescription drugs or heroin.

Strict recovery persons will say that someone using a medication that alters your mind would disqualify an addict in recovery from being truly sober. This has caused tension in the recovery community as others feel this is an unfair standard to hold every person to. They see it as a short-term prescription in which your body is able to adjust to being free from using, after being tapered off of the drug under doctor supervision.

Because Suboxone is still considered a narcotic, those who are more stringent in their recovery believe that the drug is still a drug because of its risks of being abused. But in reality, Opioid drugs, like Suboxone, Naltrexone, and even methadone, can reduce the debilitating effects of withdrawal and blunt the craving for more opioids. In many cases, it is seen as lesser of two evils.

The Recover is a nationally mental health and drug news provider that offers non-bias information about current events and relevant news related to substance abuse and mental health. The full story can be read at https://www.therecover.com/assisted-sobriety-sober-not/

Author: Kevin Leonard
Organization: TheRecover.com
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