Santa Monica Suboxone Doctors


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A Santa Monica search reveals a moderate sized list of local doctors who can prescribe buprenorphine (suboxone) to individuals facing opiate withdrawal symptoms. Dependency on opioids results in a mix of painful withdrawal effects (insomnia, nausea, chills, diarrhea, body ache, and more) which generate chronic stress symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and a compromised ability to meet the demands of daily life. Buprenorphine is the therapeutic component in Suboxone that eliminates opiate withdrawal symptoms. Suboxone has become a well known and frequently sought opiate replacement medication that restores a person’s functioning following a period of active opioid addiction. Only authorized doctors are legally able to write prescriptions for buprenorphine/suboxone. If you are a local physician aiming to treat Santa Monica area 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.



Santa Monica Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Evelina L. Weinstein, M.D. 1315 Lincoln Blvd
Suite 250
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 496-5505
Gary Chase, M.D. 315 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90402
(310) 394-7020
Brian Young Mclean, M.D. 723 Pacific Coast Highway
Santa Monica, CA 90402
(310) 899-0539
Marisa Chang, M.D. 2811 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 790
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 829-5968
David Leslie Fogelson, M.D. 2730 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 326
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 828-5015
Deborah S. Finklestein, M.D. 1821 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 311
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 582-5252
Solomon Perlo, M.D. 2730 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 650
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 828-0710
Robert Andries Shain, M.D. 1137 2nd Street
Unit 101
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 456-3503
Sheldon Emanuel Jordan, M.D. 2811 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 790
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 829-5968
Daniel Charles Minton, M.D. 2444 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 404
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(131) 045-3467
Terrance Procter Flanagan, M.D. 1138 9th Street Apt H
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(617) 504-2236
Edward J. Oconnor, M.D. 2811 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 790
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 829-5968
Arsalan Malik, M.D. 2730 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 630
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(424) 259-2673
Eric M. Wexler, M.D. 2730 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 325
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 744-5102
Soroya Bacchus 2730 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 660
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 829-4640
Robert S. Martin, M.D. 2811 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 620
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 828-4944
Orlando Cartaya, M.D. 2444 Wilshire Boulevard
Unit 620
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 315-1018
Mona Q. Cho, M.D. 1304 15th Street
Suite 202
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 393-0739
Emmanuel Emenike 1260 15th Street
Suite #1414
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 869-0638
Hossein Babaali, M.D. 2428 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 402
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 829-3385
Brent James Michael, M.D. 2001 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 1260-W
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 829-7777
Marc Brodsky, M.D. UCLA Center for East- West Medicine
2428 Santa Monica Boulevard Unit # 208
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 998-9118
Gerald M. Sacks, M.D. 2020 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 150
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 264-7314
Keith Gregory Heinzerling, M.D. UCLA Les Kelly Family Health Center
1920 Colorado Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(866) 449-8252
Manali Ayachit Shendrikar, M.D. 2001 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 380W
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 586-9002
Joseph Knotz, M.D. 1304 15th Street
Suite 202
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 937-0739
Martin Alpert, M.D. 1304 15th Street
Suite 202
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 393-0739
Oscar J. Hernandez, M.D. 2001 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 680
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 453-0419
Paul M. Robinson, M.D. 2915 Santa Monica Boulevard
Unit 2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 828-3031
Thomas K. Ciesla, M.D. 1301 20th Street
Suite 212
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 315-0300
Scott David Reiter, M.D. 3010 Lincoln Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 399-9142
Jeanne Axler, M.D. 3205 Ocean Park Boulevard
Unit 250
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 452-8345


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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