Durham Buprenorphine / Suboxone Clinics

Morse Clinic of Durham

Morse Clinic of Durham
4119 Capitol Street
Durham, NC 27704

Phone: 919-294-9621
Fax: 919-294-9794
Website: MorseClinics.com

We are a SAMSHA certified Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) that provides all the FDA approved Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD). We have a holistic approach to treatment and recovery. Therapy for all aspects of stabilization and recovery from addiction is crucial to our patient’s success and is the cornerstone of our treatment approach. Addiction affects families as well as the identified patient and we support family education about addiction and recovery. Start your recovery today!


 

Subscribe Here To Have Your Clinic Featured in this space

Following payment completion, please email us the clinic information that will be displayed here.

methadone8c



Durham has several area buprenorphine physicians and clinics who provide buprenorphine-based medications and structured counseling in their recovery approach. Addiction recovery using medication assistance to manage opioid withdrawal is a common therapeutic approach today. Below are links to more info on methadone and buprenorphine program effectiveness, opioid dependency, and addiction and recovery counseling.


 

Durham Buprenorphine Providers
Morse Clinic of Durham 4119 Capitol Street
Durham, NC 27704
(919) 294-9621
Duke University Medical Center
Duke Addictions Program
2213 Elba Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 684-3850
(919) 684-0100
Ralph M. Scallion, M.D. 3815 Wake Forest Highway
Suite 1
Durham, NC 27703
(919) 294-4523
Kwadwo Gyarteng-Dakwa, M.D. The HEAG Pain Management Center
2609 North Duke Street, Suite 402
Durham, NC 27704
(919) 220-0107
Kendall Carnes Warden, M.D. 1118 Hillandale Road
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-0396
Venus I. Pitts, M.D. Premiere Health and Wellness Medical Ctr
910 Broad Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 323-8180
Lindsay Rose Dykema, M.D. Durham VAMC/Mental Health Service Line
508 Fulton Street (116D/ Hillandale 2)
Durham, NC 27705
(646) 483-4469
Logan Gabriel Graddy, M.D. 909 Broad Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 416-4800
Teresa R. Purdy, M.D. Durham Veteran's Affairs Medical Center
508 Fulton Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-0411
William Armistead Price, M.D. 112 Swift Avenue
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 406-8345
James Walter Finch, M.D. 909 Broad Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 416-4800
Roy Mendel Stein, M.D. Veterans Affairs Medical Center (116-A)
508 Fulton Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-0411
Veeraindar Goli, M.D. Duke University Medical Center
DUMC Box 3859
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 684-1350
De Lora B. Cummings, M.D. 3622 Lyckan Parkway
Suite #6006
Durham, NC 27707
(919) 730-9701
Arjumand B. Syed, M.D. In Home Care Services
Durham, NC 27707
(919) 489-9303
Nathan R. Strahl, M.D. 3326 Durham Chapel Hill Boulevard
Suite B-110
Durham, NC 27707
(919) 493-8399
Tiffany Marum, M.D. 3612 Shannon Road
Suite 105
Durham, NC 27707
(919) 419-0242
Pamela Mund, M.D. Lincoln Community Health Center
1301 Fayetteville Street
Durham, NC 27717
(919) 956-4000
Southlight, Inc. 414 E. Main Street
Suite 202
Durham, NC 27701
(919) 956-7040
Easter Seals UCP ASAP Inc
DBA ASAP
433 West Main Street
Durham, NC 27701
(919) 861-0033
Intake:
(919) 560-7100
(919) 433-0170
Substance Abuse Outpatient Program
Durham VA Medical Center
508 Fulton Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-0411×7483


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.

Posted in Buprenorphine, Medication Assisted Treatment, Methadone, Methadone Clinics, Opiate Withdrawal, Opioid Treatment, Pain Management, Prescription Drugs, Suboxone | Tagged | Comments Off on How Bad Is Opioid Withdrawal

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.

Posted in Methadone, Methadone Benefits, Methadone Clinics, Recovery, Suboxone | Tagged | Comments Off on Helping Skeptics Understand Methadone

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.

Posted in Acadia Healthcare, Addiction Treatment, Buprenorphine, Methadone, Methadone Clinics, Oregon Methadone Clinics, Suboxone | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Methadone Treatment in Oregon

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.

Posted in Medication Assisted Treatment, Methadone, Methadone Clinics, Methadone Programs, Suboxone, Suboxone Clinics | Tagged | Comments Off on Remote Observation of Methadone Dosing

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.

Posted in Acadia Healthcare, Addiction Treatment, Brightview, Methadone, Methadone Clinics, Opioid Treatment, Suboxone | Tagged | Comments Off on Expanding Access to Methadone


Over the last 20 years, opioid addiction has surfaced as a primary medical concern in the United States. Individuals from all walks of life have been subject to the risk of opioid misuse and opioid dependency. The good news is that opioid addiction is a highly treatable illness. With opioid addiction, there are medication-assisted interventions now available that have proven to be very effective. Extensive research studies have evidenced the clear benefits of buprenorphine in alleviating the uncomfortable physiological symptoms and mental stress of opioid withdrawal.