Medication Assisted
Treatment Program
     
  COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF OPIOID
DEPENDENCE INCLUDE:		  
 
  • Opioid tolerance (the need to take
more drugs to get the same effect,
or getting less effect from the same
amount of the drug)

•Withdrawal symptoms occur when
opioids are not used

• Taking larger amounts of opioids than
planned and for longer periods of
time

• Persistent desire or unsuccessful
attempts to quit
• Spending a lot of time and effort to
obtain, use, and recover from opioid
use

• Giving up or reducing social or
recreational activities; missing work
• Continued opioid use regardless of
negative consequences		  
     
*Patients displaying 3 or more of the above in a 12-month period are considered opioid dependent.  
 
     
     
  STAGES OF TREATMENT  
     
  STAGE 1:  
  Client attends Buprenorphine specific intensive
outpatient programming five sessions per week for
two weeks.		  
     
  This stage focuses on:  
 
  • Understanding how Buprenorphine works and its side effects.

• The importance of a combined program of
medication and treatment.

• Cross addiction and the importance of
achieving abstinence from all addictive
substances.

• Outside support systems		  
     
 
  STAGE 2:  
  Client attends Buprenorphine specific intensive
outpatient programming two sessions per week for
three months.		  
     
  This stage focuses on:  
 
     
  • Understanding addiction as a family and
biologically based disease

• Dealing with emotions and relationships
Identifying self-defeating behaviors

• Developing new coping strategies

• Dealing with urges and cravings

• Tapering off Buprenorphine
  
     
 
  Clients are triaged to longer-term Buprenorphine
maintenance with specialized programming or
abstinence-based programming.		  
     
 
STAGE 3:		  
  Client attends Buprenorphine specific Continuing
Care one session per week for up to a year.		  
     
  This stage focuses on:  
     
 
  • Aftercare support
• Developing a healthy support system and
lifestyle.
• Relapse prevention		  
     
     
 
  MEDICAL COMPONENT  
     
  PHYSICIAN DIRECTED CARE:  
 
  Solutions Recovery, Inc. has affiliated with
physicians around the Vegas Valley who
offer Buprenorphine stabilization and
maintenance services. Buprenorphine
induction is virtually painless with the
majority of withdrawal symptoms being
addressed with prescriptions.		  
 
     
  HOW DOES BUPRENORPHINE
BENEFIT YOU?		  
 
  Buprenorphine will reduce cravings
and alleviate withdrawal symptoms.
This will help the client continue with
and focus on treatment, and eventually
help the client regain control over their
opiate dependence.

Buprenorphine is provided as a way
to treat opioid dependence, in a
doctor’s office, with confidentiality,
and safety. People treated with
Buprenorphine normally do not need
to be hospitalized, nor do they need to
be admitted into a residential treatment
facility.		  
     
     
 
  CLINICAL COMPONENT  
     
  TREATMENT:  
 
  Studies indicate that Buprenorphine without
counseling does not effectively treat the
opiate addiction. A high percentage of
clients in a medication only program have
been found to relapse. Buprenorphine
is designed to help the client remain in
treatment by controlling their withdrawal
symptoms and cravings so the client may
focus on his/her recovery. Studies show,
when clients are treated with Buprenorphine
along with an intensive outpatient program,
their chances of ending their opiate
dependence are much higher.		  
     
     
 
  PATIENT QUALIFICATIONS:  
 
  • Extended addiction to opiates

• Previous unsuccessful treatments

• Patients must not be on other addictive
medication

• Prescribed Buprenorphine only from
affiliated physicians