Cleveland Suboxone Doctors


Cleveland Suboxone Clinic

Cleveland Suboxone Clinic
Dr. Nosson Goldfarb M.D.
cleveland-suboxone-clinic6001 Cochran Rd., Suite 404C
Solon, OH 44139

Phone: 440-809-8538
Website: www.ClevelandSuboxoneClinic.com

Our practice is warm and comfortable – our doctors take the time to approach each person as an individual. We believe that patients need compassion and a listening ear. Taking into account each patient’s unique circumstances enables us to create a plan that is not only effective and affordable but also fits into each person’s lifestyle. By creating a healing environment and through education, we empower our patients to journey forward in their pursuit of optimal wellness and recovery from addiction.

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Cleveland provides a variety of local doctors that are approved to offer buprenorphine prescriptions for opiate withdrawal. Buprenorphine is the ingredient in suboxone, which successfully reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms like diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and insomnia. Doctors authorized for suboxone treatment have received training in the appropriate administration of suboxone. Suboxone has acquired an excellent reputation in the medical community as a result of its good safety profile and its impressive results in alleviating opiate withdrawal sickness. If you are a local physician who treats Cleveland residents, you may purchase a featured listing at the top of this page insuring that your medical services will be found by prospective patients searching our website for quality opioid treatment.



Cleveland Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Cleveland Suboxone Clinic
Dr. Nosson Goldfarb M.D.
6001 Cochran Rd., Suite 404C
Solon, OH 44139
(440) 809-8538
Mohsen Vazirian, M.D. 2800 Euclid Avenue
Suite 110
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 633-3969
Siddharth Arora, D.O. 2800 Euclid Avenue
Suite 110
Cleveland, OH 44115
(805) 635-7246
Irene Shulga, M.D. Bridgeway Inc.
8301 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102
(216) 281-2660
Jerome Williams, M.D. 8300 Hough Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44103
(216) 231-7700
Pu Cheng, M.D. 10524 Euclid Avenue
8th Floor
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 781-9222
Mary H. Rabb, D.O. VAMC
10701 East Boulevard, Room 210-300
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 791-3800×4725
Christina M. Delos Reyes, M.D. Hanna Pavilioin
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 844-3880
Margaret M. Kotz, D.O. ARS-Hannah Pavillion
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 983-3066
Paul Eric Konicki, M.D. Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
10701 East Boulevard, Unit #116A
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 791-3800×6802
Youssef Mahfoud, M.D. Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
10701 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 844-5344
Richard Joseph DeFranco, M.D. 12409 Lorain Avenue
In The Hudec Dental Building
Cleveland, OH 44111
(216) 252-6670
Keyvan Ravakhah, M.D. 13951 Terrace Road
Cleveland, OH 44112
(216) 241-8654
Amit Mohan, M.D. 1730 West 25th Street
Lutheran Hospital
Cleveland, OH 44113
(216) 363-2309
John H. Nickels, M.D. 2307 West 14th Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
(216) 687-4003
Gregory X Boehm, M.D. 1320 Washington Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44113
(440) 777-9200
Wendy Cicek, M.D. Metro Health McCafferty Family Practice
4242 Lorain Road
Cleveland, OH 44113
(216) 651-1199
Luke Billmeyer Rosen, D.O. 2800 Euclid Avenue
Suite #110
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 633-3969
Theodore V. Parran, Jr., M.D. 2351 E. 22nd St., Rosary Hall
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 363-2580
Nirmala Nandigam, M.D. 4901 Turney Road
Cleveland, OH 44125
(216) 641-7173
Paul Manning, D.O. MetroHealth Lee Harvard
4071 Lee Road SE, Suite 260
Cleveland, OH 44128
(216) 957-2100
Gregory Collins, M.D. 9500 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44195
(216) 444-2970
Jason Jerry, M.D. 9500 Euclid Avenue
Unit #P47
Cleveland, OH 44195
(216) 445-8244
Rick Frires, MD 4901 Turney Road
Garfield Heights, OH 44125
(216) 633-1334


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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