Suboxone treatment for drug addicts will begin on a larger scale after the regional Healing Campus is constructed and operating near Costco in Sequim.
The medication-assisted treatment center will dispense an opioid, Suboxone, to patients there to assist them in curing their addiction to other opioids.
Use of this same Suboxone can be a problem to quit using because of Suboxone addiction, according to American Addiction Centers. The success rate with Suboxone is sometimes stated as about 50 percent but seldom is a time interval given.
Looking further you will find that the success rate after discontinuing Suboxone might be 10 percent or less.
If Suboxone is taken away from a person on a Suboxone maintenance program, there is little doubt that they will turn to another opiate when withdrawal symptoms begin. Then their addiction problem begins again.
After completing their treatment period of many weeks on an outpatient basis, they can continue securing Suboxone until their insurance runs out and they might have to pay for the expensive drug themselves.
How they will do this if they are not gainfully employed or homeless is not obvious.
Sequim must prepare to accept an influx of drug-addicted patients many of whom will not finish treatment nor have means to support themselves.
John Mackay,
Sequim