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San Jose provides California residents a variety of treatment alternatives for those battling chronic opiate addiction withdrawal. Prescription opioids are becoming a serious problem with more people developing an addiction to them than heroin. With the continued rise in opiate addiction over the last 10 years, suboxone has become increasingly relevant as a leading treatment intervention to help those trying to cope with persistent opioid withdrawal symptoms. San Jose offers a substantial list of approved doctors authorized to write prescriptions for suboxone. Buprenorphine is the active ingredient in suboxone that eliminates withdrawal by binding to the brain’s opiate receptor sites. Suboxone is widely available across the U.S. based on its positive track record in alleviating opioid withdrawal, and it has gained in popularity given its proven effectiveness. If you are a local physician aiming to treat San Jose 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.



San Jose Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Ariel L. Troncoso, M.D. 88 South 3rd Street
Unit 276
San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 564-5235
Ari Joshua Kriegsman, M.D. Valley Homeless Healthcare Program
2011 Alexian Drive
San Jose, CA 95116
(917) 741-5874
David A. Granovetter, M.D. 275 International Circle
Suite 370
San Jose, CA 95119
(408) 972-6358
Mary Ruth Idso, M.D. Kaiser Permanente
260 International Circle
San Jose, CA 95119
(408) 972-6377
James Petros, M.D. Allied Healthcare Clinic, Inc.
2724 Aborn Road
San Jose, CA 95121
(408) 528-8833
Duke De Fisher, M.D. 841 Blossom Hill Road
Suite 209
San Jose, CA 95123
(408) 363-6533
Harpreet Singh, M.D. 2516 Samaritan Drive
Suite M
San Jose, CA 95124
(408) 356-5900
Cecil A. Bradley, M.D. 2512 Samaritan Court, Suite M
San Jose, CA 95124
(408) 358-3663
Jerry Lester Callaway, M.D. 2512 Samaritan Court
Suite M
San Jose, CA 95124
(408) 358-3715
Manuj Nangia, M.D. 2516 Samaritan Drive
Suite G
San Jose, CA 95124
(650) 218-2094
Korina Frieda De Bruyne, M.D. VMC Clinic at Tully
500 Tully Road
San Jose, CA 95125
(408) 817-1322
Jaime J. Wilson-Chiru, M.D. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
751 South Bascom Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 272-6050
Arbella Sarkis, M.D. 105 North Bascom Avenue
Suite 103
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 999-2900
Lawrence Michael McGlynn, M.D. 751 South Bascom Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 885-5935
Robert Daniel Daigle, M.D. 1425 Fruitdale Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 568-7004
Deborah Karen Stephenson, M.D. Central Valley Clinic
2425 Enborg Lane
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 885-5400
David A. Do, M.D. 2425 Enborg Lane
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 885-5400
Richard Cathey, M.D. 1333 Piedmont Road
Suite 101
San Jose, CA 95132
(408) 254-2107
Donald Yu-Kwong Siao, M.D. 2690 South White Road
Suite 200
San Jose, CA 95148
(408) 223-7771


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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