Seattle Suboxone Doctors


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Seattle provides a number of area physicians approved to prescribe suboxone for relief from moderate opiate addiction withdrawal. Opiate addiction eventually causes uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms which interfere with daily life and which disable one from meeting normal functions & responsibilities. Buprenorphine is the opioid agonist in Suboxone medication that reduces withdrawal by binding to the body’s opiate receptor sites. Fortunately, Suboxone has become more available in recent years and is now commonly regarded as a “best practice” treatment for mild to moderate opiate dependence. If you are a local physician aiming to treat Seattle 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.



Seattle Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Lindy Sue Griffin, D.O. 509 Olive Way
Suite 1664
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 623-7940
Gary D. Carr, M.D. 720 Olive Way
Suite 1010
Seattle, WA 98101-1819
(206) 583-0127
Gregory David Rudolf, M.D. 1101 Madison Street
Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 386-2013
Rajni K. Jutla, M.D. 6900 East Greenlake Way North
Suite J
Seattle, WA 98103
(425) 744-2300
Amanda Kost, M.D. 325 Ninth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 520-5000
Denise R. Pounds, M.D. 1401 Madison
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 386-6054
Bruce Davin Larson, M.D. 1101 Madison Street
Suite 1260
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 622-5454
Richard K. Ries, M.D. 325 9th Avenue
Box 359911
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 341-4226
Christine E. Yuodelis-Flores, M.D. Harborview Medical Center
325 9th Avenue, Box 359797
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 744-9600
Joseph O. Merrill, M.D. Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Ave – Box 359780
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 744-1834
August Thomas Piper, M.D. 901 Boren Avenue
Suite 1010
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 623-5757
Brian F. Smart, M.D. Box 359911
325 Ninth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 744-4727
Angela Yue, M.D. Roosevelt Family Medical Center
4245 Roosevelt Way, NE
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 598-4055
Ray Hsiao, M.D. 4800 Sand Point Way NE
P.O. Box 5371, M/S W3636
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 987-3287
Judith Pauwels, M.D. 4245 Roosevelt Way, NE
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 598-4055
Eddie Anthony Espanol III, M.D. Swedish Medical Center – Ballard Campus
5300 Tallman Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 781-6209
James M. Squire, M.D. 1801 NW Market Street
Suite 107
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 465-6340
Vania Petkova Rudolf, M.D. Swedish Ballard
5300 Tallman Avenue, NW
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 781-6209
Thomas John Deal, M.D. 1801 NW Market Street
Suite 107
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 789-5555
Jacqueline Y. Wong 5300 Tallman Avenue, NW
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 781-6209
Shabnam Balali, M.D. 1660 South Columbian Way
Mail stop: S-116- DDTP
Seattle, WA 98108
(818) 912-9699
Charles Wesley Meredith ATC S-116
1660 South Columbian Way
Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 340-3537
Timothy Charles Dawson, M.D. 1660 South Columbian Way
Mail-stop: S-00-C&PO
Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 716-5900
Tushar Kumar, M.D. 1505 Westlake Avenue North
Suite 920
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 386-3103
Jennifer Velander, M.D. 1505 Westlake Avenue North
Suite 920
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 386-3103
Michael Robert Oreskovich, M.D. 1505 Westlake Avenue North
Suite 920
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 386-3103
Michael Rosenfield, D.O. Emerald City Medical Arts
16 Roy Street
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 281-1616
Steven M. Rudnick, M.D. 6300 Sand Point Way
Unit #210
Seattle, WA 98115
(855) 772-1226
Anna Borisovskaya, M.D. 1740 NE, 86th Street
Suite 309
Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 851-2471
Ronald L. Horn, M.D. 3715 South Hudson Street
Suite 103
Seattle, WA 98118
(206) 931-5387
Ronald L. Horn, M.D. 3715 South Hudson Street
Seattle, WA 98118
(206) 931-5387
Charles Jacob Mayer, M.D. Rainier Park Medical Clinic
4400 37th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98118
(206) 461-6957
Emily Brown Ashbaugh, M.D. 550 16th Avenue
Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98118
(206) 320-2484
Prudencio Galvez Tible, M.D. Rainier Beach Medical Clinic
5023 South Barton Place
Seattle, WA 98118
(206) 725-8043
Jennifer Lee Trieu, M.D. 1401 Madison Street
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 386-6111
Jeremy D. Johnson, M.D. 550 16th Avenue
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 320-2484
Kevin A Kless, M.D. 550 16th Avenue
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 320-2484
Kyla Brydon, M.D. 550 16th Avenue
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 320-2484
Shannon L. Barkley, M.D. Swedish Medical Center
747 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 296-4772
Alex Joseph Kipp, M.D. 550 16th Avenue Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 320-2484
Louis Paul Gianutsos, M.D. 550 16th Avenue
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 320-2484


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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