Starting on Suboxone: Early Days’ Titration


 

Starting on Suboxone: early days’ titration – “we try to do it so as just to treat the symptoms (withdrawal), not to make you ‘feel good’, per se” In order to taper, reduce your drug-habituation “dose”, you have to feel a little bit “antsy”. Just as when you are trying to lose weight, you have to feel little bit “hungry”. “If you can get by with a little bit less, that’s what we like”. So we try not to start with just a blanket larger dose, we try to tailor the initial doses to the patient’s individual withdrawal needs. Try to wait until symptoms begin before taking the medication. It’s not absolutely necessary treatment, ultimately it’s one you want to take as little of as possible so as to begin to lower your dose and taper off. Suboxone itself is a narcotic.

 

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