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Like much of the country, Boca Raton has been affected by an increasing opioid addiction trend leading to serious concerns among local families and medical professionals. In response, Boca Raton has acquired a number of area doctors approved to prescribe suboxone (buprenorphine) to individuals struggling with moderate to severe opioid addiction. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) has become the accepted standard of care in reputable addiction treatment programs for people who are at risk for chronic opiate relapse.

LIf you are a local doctor treating people in Boca Raton, you may purchase a featured listing at the top of this page insuring that your opioid treatment services will be located by prospective patients browsing our website for a local quality suboxone provider. Suboxone (buprenorphine) is now a top therapeutic intervention for opioid addicted individuals. Methadone.US is striving to inform the public about the variety of opioid replacement therapy options available in Boca Raton.



Boca Raton Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Elena Hollender, M.D. 10892 La Salinas Circle
Boca Raton, FL 33428
(561) 883-9556
Michelle Mina, M.D. 9970 Central Park Boulevard North
Suite 401
Boca Raton, FL 33428
(561) 883-3600
Brian Adam Costell, M.D. 9970 Central Park Boulevard
Suite 207
Boca Raton, FL 33428
(561) 482-1027
Lacresha L. Hall, M.D. 23257 State Road 7
Suite 204
Boca Raton, FL 33428
(305) 778-0998
Fernando Lopez-Ivern, M.D. 9960 Central Park
Boca Raton, FL 33428
(561) 487-4439
John P. Schosheim, M.D. 2499 West Glades Road
Suite 201
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 368-3800
Gerald Hoffman, D.O. 3251 North Federal Highway
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 368-5700
Stanley James Evans, M.D. Stanley J. Evans, MD
4800 North Federal Highway, Suite 102A
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 239-0185
Michael Steven Propper, M.D. 2900 North Military Trail
Suite 241
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 221-6700
John P. Girard, M.D. 2499 Glades Road
Suite 301
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 750-9900×2
Robert Allen Moran, M.D. 4800 North Federal Highway
Suite A102
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 573-3525
Salo R. Schapiro, M.D. 2499 Glades Road
Suite 201
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 361-9559
John Michael Sortino, M.D. 113 SE Mizner Boulevard
Unit 10
Boca Raton, FL 33432
(561) 391-8343
Arlene Patrice Spertus, M.D. 101 South East Mizner Boulevard
Suite 10
Boca Raton, FL 33432
(561) 391-8343
James R. Milne, D.O. 2148 NW 2 Avenue
Suite 1
Boca Raton, FL 33433
(954) 776-7566
Steven Ross Scanlan, M.D. 7251 West Palmetto Park Road, Suite 204
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Boca Raton, FL 33433
(561) 901-0040
Meryl B. Rome, M.D. 7100 West Camino Real
Suite 207
Boca Raton, FL 33433
(561) 391-2770
Cesar L. Benarroche, M.D. 7301 A Suite 106C
West Palmetto Park Road
Boca Raton, FL 33433
(561) 391-4669
Kenneth Steven Tishler, M.D. 7777 GLADES ROAD
Suite 100
Boca Raton, FL 33434
(561) 245-4600
Uma Choday, M.D. 8177 Glades Road
Suite 201
Boca Raton, FL 33434
(561) 488-8874
John Thomas Bowman, M.D. 900 NW 13th Street
Suite 202
Boca Raton, FL 33486
(561) 391-6234
Edgardo Pablo Galante, M.D. 801 Meadows Road
Suite #110
Boca Raton, FL 33486
(561) 347-6262
Vartgez K. Mansourian, M.D. 951 NW 13th Street
Suite 2B
Boca Raton, FL 33486
(561) 750-7110
Stuart A. Knott, M.D. 17346 Antigua Point Way
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 542-6442
Alexander Louis Scheuermann, D.O. 5301 North Federal Highway
Suite # 135
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 910-1251
Fadejimi Adelakun, M.D. 7601 North Federal Highway
Suite 100-A
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 989-1615
Robert Eric Cohen, M.D. 5301 North Federal Highway
Suite 270
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 241-6628
James Cocores, M.D. 5301 North Federal Highway
Suite 270
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 241-6628
Melanie Rosenblatt, M.D. 2900 North Military Trail
Suite 241
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 482-4344
Rostislav Ignatov, M.D. The Treatment Center of Palm Beaches
5455 North Federal Highway
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(646) 926-7007
Anthony Campo, M.D. 7789 N.W. Beacon Square Boulevard
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 241-7977
Mario Stefan, M.D. 17914 Lake Azure Way
Boca Raton, FL 33496
(561) 860-8233
Kenneth Steven Tishler, M.D. 4044 Avalon Pointe Drive
Boca Raton, FL 33496
(561) 998-7761


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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