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Akron, Ohio has several area methadone and suboxone clinics providing medication replacement therapy and structured counseling. Available via local physicians is suboxone (with buprenorphine) which provides relief from opiate withdrawal symptoms for a significant number of people. Below are links to more info on methadone and suboxone program effectiveness, opioid dependency, and addiction & recovery counseling.


Akron Methadone Clinics
Community Health Center
Community Drug Board Inc
725 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44305
(330) 434-4141
Quest Recovery and
Prevention Services
1341 Market Avenue North
Canton, OH 44714
(330) 453-8252
Akron Buprenorphine Treatment
James Edgar Phillips, M.D. 468 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44304
(330) 376-4445
Mark Jonathan Rich, M.D. 2477 Newton Street
Akron, OH 44305
(330) 612-1493
Ann Laurella DiFrangia, M.D. Community Health Center
702 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44305
(330) 315-3706
Timothy Rice, M.D. Community Health Center
702 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44305
(330) 315-3706
Anne Machinena, M.D. 702 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44305
(330) 315-3706
Kathie Greene, M.D. 702 East Market
Akron, OH 44305
(330) 434-4141
Alan H. Shein, M.D. St. Thomas Hospital
444 North Main Street
Akron, OH 44310-3110
(330) 379-9841
Katherine L. Richmond, D.O. East Avenue Family Practice
2095 East Avenue
Akron, OH 44314
(330) 848-2600
Adolph Harper, Jr., M.D, 2569 Romig Road
Suite 201
Akron, OH 44320
(330) 848-3373
Raphael Argueta, M.D. 2553 Romig Road
Unit 46
Akron, OH 44320
(330) 622-4423
Samer Narouze, M.D. 2183 Chuckery Lane
Akron, OH 44333
(330) 971-7246
Community Health Center
Community Drug Board Inc
725 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44305
(330) 434-4141
Saint Thomas Hospital
Ignatia Hall
444 North Main Street
Akron, OH 44310
(330) 379-9841
Akron Suboxone Clinics

BrightView Akron Addiction Treatment Center

BrightView Akron Addiction Treatment Center
999 N Main St
Akron, OH 44310

Phone: 866-928-5995
Website: www.brightviewhealth.com

Medication Types
Buprenorphine
Suboxone (buprenorphine / naloxone)
Vivitrol (naltrexone)

At BrightView Akron Addiction Treatment Center, the outpatient model of our treatment program allows our staff to develop a unique treatment plan to work with our patients’ daily life commitments and individual needs. We accept Medicaid, Medicare, and most forms of insurance to make sure that anyone battling the disease of addiction can receive our treatment services. We have caring staff who answer the phones 24-hours per day, and we provide a toll-free phone number for the convenience of our patients.

BrightView’s compassionate and professional staff create an accessible and welcoming environment for both physical and emotional healing. We are about respect for each patient, positive reinforcement, and long-term wellness. If you are looking for a patient-centered recovery center, we encourage you to take the first step in contacting us today.

 

Federal Rules For Methadone Access Are Changing

The synthetic opioid, fentanyl, has led to an increase in overdose deaths in recent years. As many as 112,000 in the last year according to NPR. As a result, some physicians are pushing to make methadone more available to those who need it.

The Biden administration has created new federal rules for methadone treatment designed to widen access for more patients. In particular, the requirement of one year of active opioid addiction is being reduced to just 6 months of opioid addiction in order to become eligible to receive methadone.

There are about 2000 federally-approved opioid treatment programs (OTP) in the United States. Many thousands of patients are receiving life saving services from these clinics. Since COVID, many OTP clinics have made take home medication more accessible to those in early phases of treatment.

With illegal opiates still flooding the country, increasing access to opioid treatment and medication is easily justified. The question remains as to how local law enforcement can ultimately stem the flow of drugs into the community, as well as how youth can be educated to avoid risking first drug use.

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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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Fentanyl and other opioids have put many individuals at risk in recent years as the opioid crisis has continued to grow. Fortunately, opioid withdrawal sickness can be successfully eliminated through medication-assistance like that found with methadone, buprenorphine, suboxone, subutex, and other options. The number of available treatment clinics in America has continued to grow as have the total number of U.S. physicians who are now approved to write prescriptions for suboxone. Methadone, buprenorphine, and suboxone have played a pivotal role in helping many people reclaim their lives after a period of opioid addiction and related struggles.