5 Tips for Staying Sober
You’ve done the work to become clean and sober, and you want to do what you can to stay that way. Here are five great tips that will help you safeguard your freedom from a substance use disorder.
Ease Off Your Addiction With SublocadeⓇ Injections
The opioid crisis in the United States is showing no signs of relenting, as 90 lives are claimed each day in this country due to opioid overdose. While overdose is the most extreme outcome of an opioid use disorder, these numbers don’t reflect the millions of lives that are ruined by addiction.
The primary goal here at Northview Wellness is to offer the services that can best help people who need to overcome substance use disorders. As part of our medication-assisted treatments, our experienced team of addiction medicine specialists offers Sublocade® injections, which can greatly ease the transition to an opioid-free life.
Here’s how it works.
The key ingredient — buprenorphine
At the heart of our Sublocade treatments is buprenorphine, which is a partial opioid agonist that’s been approved by the FDA to treat opioid use disorders.
A partial opioid agonist binds itself to the opioid receptors in your brain, but at a much lesser degree than your opioid drug of choice, which is considered a full agonist.
These types of medications can play a critical role in helping you to quit opioids, and stay quit. First, they relieve many of the opioid withdrawal symptoms that often send people back to using during the first days after quitting. These withdrawal symptoms can be quite severe, and even life-threatening, and we can offset many of them with buprenorphine.
Where Sublocade comes in is helping you to move forward after the first week. Once you’ve successfully had seven days of buprenorphine, we can transition you to monthly Sublocade injections.
The success of Sublocade
In order to gain FDA approval, the makers of Sublocade had to perform clinical trials, during which they found that patients using Sublocade were 14 times more likely to achieve treatment success than those who received placebos. It’s important to note that these success rates also included engaging in some type of counseling and recovery support, which we believe is an important part of recovery from a substance use disorder of any kind.
If you want to learn more about how Sublocade can ease your way forward into recovery and a drug-free life, contact our office in Bothell, Washington, to set up a consultation.
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