Seboxin

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drug to prevent withdraw from opiates

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Seboxin: trying to find out what it contains and what its affects are

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The correct spelling of this drug is Suboxone, no offense intended, I just wanted to clarify as it will help make it easier to find information when you are searching for it.

Now, to the information you requested, Suboxone, of course, is the trade name or name brand, the generic name, which is the same as the name of the active ingredient is Buprenorphine.

It also contains a small amount of Naloxone, one fourth that amount of this for each measure of Buprenorphine in the dosage.

Naloxone neutralizes opiates, this is an ingredient to help prevent people who are using Suboxone to beat an addiction from abusing either other opiates or the Suboxone itself, by neutralizing the opiates so you cannot get the high from them. If you take the drug as prescribed, then this is a an inactive ingredient that doesn't really do anything, however, if you try to crush the tablets, to get a higher dose at once to get high, it neutralizes it so you can't do that, it also neutralizes other opiates someone might try to abuse.

As to side effects, here's the full monograph listing and information on it:

Suboxone Click Here

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This drug, however, will not immediate prevent all withdrawal symptoms if someone is addicted or dependent on opiates, it will help, but at first, the person in question will still experience some withdrawal symptoms, which the doctors can usually alleviate temporarily with other meds. The reason for this is because you must start at a low dose and then your doctor will gradually increase your dosage, over time, until you find the appropriate effective dosage.

This is also not a miracle cure, once you have completed your therapy with this, to beat the addiction or dependence on opiates, you have to taper off of this as well.

It has, however, been shown to be safer than Methadone, because most people who undergo Methadone treatment for addiction, end up on a lifetime maintenance dose of Methadone and can never get off of it, so they basically trade one addiction for another, their body needs the Methadone just like it did the other drugs, they just don't get high on it.

Suboxone, however, is a therapy with an end, like I said, you have to taper off of it, but you can get off of it and end your reliance on drugs entirely.

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is being treated with soboxin as hard to come off as the methadone?

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if you are on a methidone treatment can you take seboxon to get off methidone

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