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Atlanta offers a lengthy list of area physicians approved to prescribe suboxone for the treatment of moderate opiate addiction. Opioid dependence produces a collection of uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms which make daily life stressful and which lead to a breakdown in one’s ability to meet responsibilities. Buprenorphine is the opioid agonist additive in Suboxone that reduces withdrawal. Suboxone has become more accessible in recent years and is now readily acknowledged in the medical community as an effective treatment for mild to moderate opiate dependence. If you are a local physician aiming to treat Atlanta 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.



Atlanta Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Eric M. Chavez, M.D. Skyland Trail
1961 North Druid Hills Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
(404) 315-8333
Darrell Lee Murray, Sr., M.D. 920 Dannon View
Suite 3103
Atlanta, GA 30331
(404) 549-9471
James Rogan, M.D. 3695 Cascade Road
Suite W
Atlanta, GA 30331
(404) 505-7707
Milton E. White, M.D. Atlanta Better Health P.C.
505 Fairburn Road, SW, Suite 207
Atlanta, GA 30331
(404) 699-5342
Gary Steven Figiel, M.D. 2150 Peachford Road
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 455-3200
Michael Roy Vaughn, M.D. 2150 Peachford Road
Suite R
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 455-0261
Mhd. Anas Alkhatib, M.D. 2151 Peachford Road
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 455-3200
Bryon Kirkland Evans, M.D. 2150 Peachford Road
Suite V
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 234-0981
Prema Venkatakrishnan Sanne, M.D. 2150 Peachford Road
Suite H
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 454-1252
Darvin Lee Hege, M.D. 2150-P Peachford Road
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 458-0007
Richard LaPlante, M.D. 2151 Peachford Road
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 455-3200
Eamon Dutta, M.D. 2150 Peachford Road
Suite R
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 455-0261
Olugbemiga Osoba, M.D. 4780a Ashford-Dunwoody Road
Suite 621
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 331-8035
Gandni Shailesh, M.D. 1720 Old Springhouse Road
Suite 305
Atlanta, GA 30338
(770) 277-7195
Jennifer Ann Friedberg, M.D. 2525 Cumberland Parkway
Kaiser Permanente Behavioral Health
Atlanta, GA 30339
(770) 431-4435
Deepa Gopalakrishnan, M.D. 2525 Cumberland Parkway
Kaiser Permanente
Atlanta, GA 30339
(770) 431-4109
Patrice Yvette Marshall, M.D. 1755 The Exchange
Suite 225
Atlanta, GA 30339
(404) 719-5999
Ivan Bruce Hoffman, M.D. 1800 Water Place, SE
Suite100
Atlanta, GA 30339
(770) 801-0980
J. Troy Richardson, Jr., M.D. Atlanta Wellness and Arts
1755 The Exchange, Suite 225
Atlanta, GA 30339
(404) 719-5999×102
Michael Anthony Burke, M.D. 2849-B Henderson Mill Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
(404) 399-4425
Nancy Jean Strauch, M.D. 3975 Roswell Road North East
Atlanta, GA 30342
(404) 835-1555
Todd Wilk Estroff, M.D. 627 Old Ivy Road
Atlanta, GA 30342
(404) 816-5815
Thomas Gravee Cobb, M.D. 5775 Peachtree Dunwoody Road
C200
Atlanta, GA 30342
(678) 426-2930
Michael Clark Hilton, M.D. 3975 Roswell Road
Atlanta, GA 30342
(404) 352-4001
Michele Sewell, M.D. 2244 Henderson Mill Road
Suite 108
Atlanta, GA 30345
(678) 551-7810
Reed Michael Pitre, M.D. Atlanta VAMC SATP 116A3
2296 Henderson Mill Road
Atlanta, GA 30345
(404) 321-6111
Michael Lee Fishman, M.D. 5448 Yorktowne Drive
Suite 127
Atlanta, GA 30349
(678) 251-3168
Navjyot Singh Bedi, M.D. Talbott Recovery Campus
5448 Yorktowne Drive
Atlanta, GA 30349
(678) 251-3141
Richard Patrick Amar, M.D. Talbott Recovery
5448 Yorktowne Drive
Atlanta, GA 30349
(404) 321-6111
Shailesh Manubhai Patel, M.D. 5454 Yorktowne Drive
Atlanta, GA 30349
(717) 350-8861
Vitaliy D. Gavrikov, M.D. 4535 Winters Chapel Road
Suite B
Atlanta, GA 30360
(678) 580-1862
Michael C. Gordon, M.D. 1800 Water Place
Suite 100
Atlantqa, GA 30339
(770) 801-0980
Angela Overstreet Wright, M.D. 525 Ellis Street
Augusta, GA 30901
(706) 722-3855
Sridhar Gowda, M.D. One, Freedom Way
CNVA Medical Center
Augusta, GA 30904
(706) 733-0188×6145
Bruce Ira Tetalman Atlantic Medical Group
1518 Monte Sona Avenue
Augusta, GA 30904
(706) 504-4323
Ines Helga Berger, M .D. BIW 2144
1120 15th Street
Augusta, GA 30907
(706) 721-8034
Lance Budge Thigpen, M.D. 3633 Wheeler Road
Suite 110
Augusta, GA 30909
(706) 855-7784
Benjamin C. Barnard, M.D. 2608 Commons Boulevard
Suite A
Augusta, GA 30909
(706) 364-3965
George Clark Pursley, M.D. 1219 West Wheeler Parkway
Suite A
Augusta, GA 30909
(706) 869-9222
 




 


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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Expanding Access to Methadone

Historically, access to methadone for the treatment of opioid addiction has been through enrollment in a local clinic licensed to dispense methadone. As a result of Covid restrictions, some of these clinic regulations were relaxed. For example, many patients across the U.S. were allowed to begin receiving take home doses of methadone as a result of Covid lockdowns and decreased clinic access.

Critics have begun to express the belief that clinic restrictions are cumbersome and that methadone should be made available for pick-up at local pharmacies. On the other hand, the concern remains that methadone can be misdirected or mishandled thus reinforcing the need for close supervision, particularly in the early phases of opioid treatment. Decades of research has shown that taken under proper supervision, methadone’s safety profile is excellent.

In this recent era of contaminated street opiates and overdose concerns, it is clear that methadone is a phenomenally effective medication for promoting health, well-being, and physical safety.

Mark Parrino, president of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, recently shared that deregulation of methadone would likely increase the diversion of methadone and methadone-related overdose deaths.

Following a period of stability, most U.S. clinics do allow patients to begin dosing at home with methadone. This system of care is working well throughout the country where methadone is readily available. However, many U.S. citizens are still lengthy distances from methadone-approved clinics. So, the challenge continues to link those with opioid addiction to effective resources in their local community. Legislators are presently examining a range of options as the opioid epidemic marches on.

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