Arkansas Methadone Clinics



Arkansas Methadone Clinics
Northeast Arkansas Treatment Services, LLC 912 Osler, Suite B Jonesboro (870) 336-0549
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Substance Abuse Treatment Clinic 4301 West Markham St., Slot #835 Little Rock (501) 526-8400
Springdale Treatment Center 1353 East Henri De Tonti Blvd. Springdale (479) 306-4480
Arkansas Treatment Services, PA 408 Hazel Street Texarkana (870) 774-0421
 

Arkansas has its methadone clinics and (buprenorphine) suboxone doctors concentrated mostly in and around its metropolitan urban centers. With the recent rise in opioid addiction problems across the United States, more medical providers are preparing themselves to assist people suffering with moderate to severe opioid dependency. While some individuals are able to detox successfully from opioids under supervised care, many discover that medication-assisted treatment is necessary to help them either avoid painful opioid withdrawal or to facilitate their journey into long term recovery. Methadone and (buprenorphine) suboxone are the two most popular & effective medication-assisted therapies available for opiate addicted persons. Both medications are FDA-approved, SAMHSA endorsed, and have been successfully utilized in treating opioid addiction for more than a decade. With methadone in particular, its success profile dates back to over 40 years in the United States.



How Bad Is Opioid Withdrawal

There is an informative video by Sarah Wakeman on the physical and psychological perils of severe opioid withdrawal. Sarah is a Medical Director at Mass General Brigham. They are an integrated health care system that conduct medical research, teaching, and patient care.

In the video, Sarah explains how opioid withdrawal can become so severe with diarrhea and vomiting that individuals can die from extensive dehydration. As physicial dependency progresses, the brain becomes increasingly imbalanced and unable to function without the presence of opioids.

When opioid withdrawal commences (usually 8-12 hours after last use), it becomes increasingly unbearable as the body is flushed with stress hormones. The withdrawal discomfort builds in intensity over days, and can last up to a week or more. For many, this withdrawal process feels akin to a severe case of the flu, but then potentially reaches levels of sickness even far beyond that.

In the video, Sarah goes on to discuss the benefits of methadone and buprenorphine in reducing severe withdrawal symptoms and in helping patients to ultimately not die from overdose. She also illuminates on how rational decision-making is so extremely difficult when struggling against the intense pain of opioid withdrawal.

Please check this video out, and share it with anyone you believe can benefit from its message.

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Helping Skeptics Understand Methadone

When it comes to addiction, reactions and opinions are often intense. Addiction is a devastating illness that can rapidly derail a person’s life, and seriously impact the lives of those around them.

Sadly, addiction leads people to behave in ways that make no sense to their family, friends, and co-workers. Therein lies an important part of the problem. Family feel confused, angry, and fearful as their loved one tumbles down the hill of active addiction.

When it comes to something as perplexing as drug addiction, grasping for answers is an understandable reflex for family and friends. What family often don’t comprehend is the power of physical dependency to opioids and the severe sickness that results from opioid withdrawal.

Family and others incorrectly assume that mere “choice” is all that’s needed to overcome the addiction. When the addict fails to remain drug free, harsh judgment by others usually follows.

Halting withdrawal sickness is a paramount step for an opioid addicted person. This cannot be overstated. As long as a person is suffering from severe opioid withdrawal, their ability to think and “choose” logically is greatly impaired.

Statistically, individuals who utilize medication-assisted treatment (like methadone) are far more likely to avoid incarceration, a continued downward spiral, or death by overdose. Medication assistance successfully removes debilitating withdrawal sickness so that the addicted person can experience greater clarity of thought and the ability to make more sound decisions that lead to improved quality of life.

If you are a skeptic about methadone or suboxone, you may think “they’re just trading one drug for another”. This is not true. People, once therapeutically stabilized on methadone or suboxone, do not get high from the medication. Health generally improves, and the person is able to function much better on the job and at home. This brings hope. It offers a new opportunity for further recovery.

When you care about a person’s survival, one more chance to help them can be quite valuable. Don’t let judgment or excessive skepticism get in the way. Medication-assistance in opioid recovery is effective for many people, and it has been the life saving next step that some never got the chance to take.

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Methadone Treatment in Oregon

Like most states, Oregon is in need of quality treatment options for opioid-addicted individuals who are ready for recovery.

This article, in the Hillsboro News-Times, features the recent approval by Washington County commissioners to add a new methadone clinic in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Acadia Healthcare is aiming to establish the new methadone clinic in Hillsboro in order to better serve the local community. Acadia already operate a mobile unit in the general area as well as a comprehensive treatment center (CTC) in nearby Tigard located about 20 miles away.

The commissioners voted 5-0 to approve the proposed site which will be on the local bus route thereby providing improved access. The article mentions that Oregon presently has 17 operational methadone clinics serving the state, where fentanyl, opiates, and other substances are causing a grave overdose crisis.

Having local opioid treatment available is a critically important step in saving lives and providing hope to patients and families. Methadone has been proven to decrease opioid use, reduce relapse risks & overdose deaths, as well as increase employment and overall health. Clinics offering medication-assisted treatment (MAT), like methadone and buprenorphine, are forging a new path to safety for those people once stuck in active addiction.

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Remote Observation of Methadone Dosing

There’s a new spin being proposed on the dispensing of methadone to Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) patients. A federally-funded project is underway between Scene Health and The University of Washington in which patients video themselves taking their daily methadone dose, and then submit that video to the treatment provider.

The project is evaluating this new modified approach that falls somewhere between in-person daily dosing and unsupervised take home dosing.

This new approach is currently being referred to as Video DOT (video direct observation therapy) and has been successfully implemented with other health issues including hepatitis C, asthma, and diabetes.

While this experiment seems appealing at first glance, it does raise legitimate questions about the ability to insure proper safety protocols with the provision of methadone medication to new patients. The project may possibly demonstrate the usefulness of Video DOT methadone dosing. But assuming this new approach one day becomes common practice, it will be important that physicians or clinics have in place a procedure for quickly reclaiming methadone doses that are not ingested on schedule.

Imagine a new patient receives 7 take home doses of methadone, but then only sends in the required video of their medication use on day one. At what point does the prescribing clinic intervene, and how will the unaccounted for doses be retrieved?

Approved Opioid Treatment Programs currently have “callback” procedures in which stable patients are randomly selected to return to their home clinic with their unused take home doses. This allows the clinic medical staff to perform a medication count, and it acts as a safeguard to insure patients are taking their medication as prescribed.

Patients who have earned take home privileges through months of treatment progress are less inclined to divert or misuse methadone than someone who just started treatment. New patients must be inducted gradually on a stabilizing dose of methadone. And time is typically needed to help these patients adjust to methadone while eliminating use of all other illicit substances. This is where the benefit of a structured treatment program is most relevant. OTP’s provide extremely valuable life management skills training in conjunction with medication therapy.

It remains to be seen if “easy access” to methadone is truly an advancement in care, or a step backwards in accountability & safety for patients and the public.

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Expanding Access to Methadone

Historically, access to methadone for the treatment of opioid addiction has been through enrollment in a local clinic licensed to dispense methadone. As a result of Covid restrictions, some of these clinic regulations were relaxed. For example, many patients across the U.S. were allowed to begin receiving take home doses of methadone as a result of Covid lockdowns and decreased clinic access.

Critics have begun to express the belief that clinic restrictions are cumbersome and that methadone should be made available for pick-up at local pharmacies. On the other hand, the concern remains that methadone can be misdirected or mishandled thus reinforcing the need for close supervision, particularly in the early phases of opioid treatment. Decades of research has shown that taken under proper supervision, methadone’s safety profile is excellent.

In this recent era of contaminated street opiates and overdose concerns, it is clear that methadone is a phenomenally effective medication for promoting health, well-being, and physical safety.

Mark Parrino, president of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, recently shared that deregulation of methadone would likely increase the diversion of methadone and methadone-related overdose deaths.

Following a period of stability, most U.S. clinics do allow patients to begin dosing at home with methadone. This system of care is working well throughout the country where methadone is readily available. However, many U.S. citizens are still lengthy distances from methadone-approved clinics. So, the challenge continues to link those with opioid addiction to effective resources in their local community. Legislators are presently examining a range of options as the opioid epidemic marches on.

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Arkansas Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Kristi Marie Kindrick, M.D. 10301 Mayo Drive
Barling, AR 72923
(479) 494-5700
Dewey R. McAfee, D.O. 710-A Dewitt Henry Drive
Beebe, AR 72012
(501) 882-5433
David Arthur Diffine, M.D. 1100 Medical Drive
Suite C
Blytheville, AR 72315
(870) 740-4774
Marion M. Stowers, M.D. 1100 East Poplar, Outpatient Specialty
Clinic
Clarksville, AR 72830
(479) 214-2482
Cathy Luo, M.D. 350 East Millsap Road
Fayetteville, AR 72703
(479) 587-8753
Thomas W. Atkinson, M.D. 1792 East Joyce, Suite 3
P.O. Box 9690
Fayetteville, AR 72703
(479) 582-5905
Sudhir Kumar, M.D. 1801 Lindauer Road
Forrest City, AR 72335
(870) 633-5016
Mohammed S. Ur Rehman, M.D. 8909 Lakeside Way
Fort Smith, AR 72903
(479) 471-4600
Juan Martin Hughes, M.D. 1301 South Waldron Road
Suite B
Fort Smith, AR 72903
(479) 595-2437
Kalyan Chowdary Akkineni, M.D. 5808 Callaway Lane
Fort Smith, AR 72916
(479) 471-4600
James Merlin Hawk, M.D. 303 West Newman Street
Harrison, AR 72601
(870) 741-4295
Eugene M. Shelby, M.D. 137 Circle Drive
Hot Springs, AR 71901
(501) 623-2606
Sharron Marie Mason, M.D. Mason Medical Clinic
320 Ouachita Avenue, Suite 310C, Box 24
Hot Springs, AR 71910
(501) 463-9079
Sharron Marie Mason, M.D. 320 Ouachita Avenue
Suite 310C, Box 24
Hot Springs, AR 71910
(501) 463-9079
Gary Norton Meek, M.D. 812 Mountain Pine Road
Hot Springs, AR 71913
(501) 767-4456
William Leonard Mizell, D.O. Quapaw House Inc.
812 Mountain Pine Road
Hot Springs, AR 71913
(501) 701-3404
Michael Watson Verser, M.D. 812 Mount Pine Road
Hot Springs, AR 71913
(501) 767-4456
Sheila E. Hellman, M.D. 260 Southwest Drive
Jonesboro, AR 72401
(870) 930-9355
Daniel Bruce Bennett, M.D. 1811 Executive Square
Jonesboro, AR 72401
(870) 932-6883
James M. Robinette, M.D. 801 Osler Drive
Suite A
Jonesboro, AR 72401
(870) 932-2423
Cindy Ellzey Rossetti, M.D. 1811 Executive Square
Jonesboro, AR 72401
(870) 932-6883
Gregory Stephen Kaczenski, M.D. 801 Scott Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
(501) 221-7238
Richard Phillip Doncer, M.D. 1401 South University Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72204
(501) 664-7833
Miguel A. Casillas, M.D. 1401 South University Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72204
(501) 664-7833
Jeanne Ann Murphy, M.D. 500 South University Avenue
Suite 717
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 372-7246
Joseph Benjamin Guise, M.D. 4301 West Markham Street
Slot 589
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 686-9630
Leslie G. Smith, M.D. 2801 Lee Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 660-6644
Steven Blevins, M.D. 4301 West Markham
Slot 568
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 686-5900
Michael J. Mancino, M.D. 4301 West Markham Street
UAMS Department of Psychiatry, # 848
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 526-8400
Christopher Scott Cargile, M.D. 4301 West Markham
Slot 568
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 686-5900
Mohit Chopra, M.D. University of Arkansas for Med. Science
4301 West Markham Street, Unit 825
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 686-5900
Mike C. Umerah, M.D. 500 South University Avenue
Suite 705
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 664-2991
Lara Fleming Huffman, M.D. 4400 Shuffield Drive
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 686-9300
Anne Rowland Trussell, M.D. 9501 Baptist Health Drive
Suite 940
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 228-6122
Samuel Tyler Bayles, M.D. LifeStrategies
5918 Lee Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 663-2199
Samuel Tyler Bayles, M.D. 2801 Lee Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 660-6644
Robert Bernard Reichard, M.D. 500 South University Avenue
Suite 305
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 372-7246
Zachary Neil Stowe, M.D. 4301 West Markham Street, Unit #843
Psychiatric Research Institute
Little Rock, AR 72205-7199
(501) 526-8201
Bradley Canada Diner, M.D. 4 Executive Center Court
Little Rock, AR 72211
(501) 448-0060
Jeremy Ryan Thompson, M.D. P.O. Box 242615
Little Rock, AR 72223
(501) 291-2324
Kristy Stepps King, M.D. 500 South University Avenue
Suite 305
Little Rock, AR 75503
(501) 372-7246
Ira Douglas Chatman, M.D. Interventional Pain Management
17 Medical Plaza
Mountain Home, AR 72653
(870) 425-6235
John Louis Gustavus, M.D. 7418 North Hills Boulevard
North Little Rock, AR 72116
(501) 833-0177
Meraj N. Siddiqui, M.D. 2920 East Moore Street
Searcy, AR 72143
(501) 279-1279
Terry Mac Brown, D.O. 2900 Hawkins Drive
Searcy, AR 72143
(501) 278-2800
Mike C. Umerah, M.D. 1109 South Main Street
Searcy, AR 72143
(501) 305-4881
James M. Merritt, M.D. 1109 South Main Street
Searcy, AR 72143
(501) 305-4881
Donnie Joe Holden, M.D. 801 Carlton
Springdale, AR 72762
(479) 750-1151
Keith Martin Berner, M.D. 601 West Maple
Suite 403
Springdale, AR 72764
(479) 750-2742
Martha A. Morrison, M.D. 601 West Maple
Suite 403
Springdale, AR 72764
(479) 750-2742
James Bernard Weedman, M.D. 1600 Arkansas Boulevard
Suite 100
Texarkana, AR 71854
(870) 779-1185
Robert C. Strayhan, M.D. Vista Health Services
801 Arkansas Boulevard
Texarkana, AR 71854
(870) 772-5028