Mississippi Methadone Clinics



Mississippi Methadone Clinics
Jackson Comprehensive Treatment Center 1935 Lakeland Dr., Suite 900 Jackson (601) 840-1454
ALTR of Jackson, LLC 500 D East Woodrow Wilson Dr. Jackson (601) 362-3131
 

Mississippi has its methadone clinics and (buprenorphine) suboxone doctors concentrated mostly in and around its metropolitan urban centers. With the recent rise in opioid addiction problems across the United States, more medical providers are preparing themselves to assist people suffering with moderate to severe opioid dependency. While some individuals are able to detox successfully from opioids under supervised care, many discover that medication-assisted treatment is necessary to help them either avoid painful opioid withdrawal or to facilitate their journey into long term recovery. Methadone and (buprenorphine) suboxone are the two most popular & effective medication-assisted therapies available for opiate addicted persons. Both medications are FDA-approved, SAMHSA endorsed, and have been successfully utilized in treating opioid addiction for more than a decade. With methadone in particular, its success profile dates back to over 40 years in the United States.



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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Sreedhar Rao Rayudu, M.D. 590 Highway 6 East
Batesville, MS 38606
(662) 563-8703
Subbulaxmi S. Rayudu, M.D. 590 Highway 6 East
Batesville, MS 38606
(662) 563-8703
Stephen W. McAuliffe, D.O. 180 Debuys Road
Suite 106
Biloxi, MS 39531
(228) 594-8380
Brian K. Tsang, M.D. 180-B Debuys Road
Suite 203
Biloxi, MS 39531
(228) 273-4096
Joe Alan Jackson, M.D. 1990 Popps Ferry Road
Biloxi, MS 39532
(850) 594-2000
Angelos B. Vamvakas, M.D. 3161 Wayne Drive
Biloxi, MS 39532
(228) 392-2730
Stephen W. McAuliffe, D.O. P.O. Box 287
Biloxi, MS 39533
(228) 594-8380
Lloyd J. Gordon III, M.D. 3949 Hwy 43 North
Brandon, MS 39047
(601) 829-2500
James Elliot Roberts, Jr., M.D. 439 North Jackson Street
Suite D
Brookhaven, MS 39601
(601) 833-2222
Parvesh K. Goel P.O. Box 607
Canton, MS 39046
(601) 859-9888
Reginald D. Rigsby, M.D. 1171 Hart Street
Canton, MS 39046
(601) 859-9888
Parvesh K. Goel 1171 Hart Street
Canton, MS 39046
(601) 859-9888
Carl Alvin Faulks, M.D. 351 Cotton Row
Cleveland, MS 38732
(844) 200-8811
Shinita Reed Dudley, M.D. 322Highway 80 East Suite D
Clinton, MS 39056
(601) 925-0022
Kenneth I. Cronin, M.D. 65 Lakeview Drive
Clinton, MS 39056
(601) 924-2414
Victor Okafor Anazia, D.O. 1212 Broad Street
Columbia, MS 39429
(601) 444-9266
Harry Gene Hunt, M.D. 1212 Broad Street
Columbia, MS 39429
(601) 444-9266
Mark Allen Stevens, M.D. 502 Broad Street
Columbia, MS 39429
(601) 736-8282
Jennifer Guild Trihoulis, M.D. 1113 Highway 98 Bypass
Suite B
Columbia, MS 39429
(601) 336-2220
Martins T. Ugwu-Dike, M.D. Quality Care Internal Medicine, Inc.
1212 Broad Street
Columbia, MS 39429
(601) 444-9266
Neil Burton Sloan, M.D. 207 Alcorn Drive
Corinth, MS 38834
(662) 665-9073
Maxie L. Gordon, M.D. 119 Alcorn Drive
Corinth, MS 38834
(662) 286-3843
Joseph L. Pratt, M.D. 121 Pratt Drive
Corinth, MS 38834
(662) 286-0088
John C. Mutziger, D.O. 14884 Highway 15
Decatur, MS 39327
(601) 635-2258
Vanessa Lynn Duncombe, M.D. 3680 Sangani Boulevard
Suite H-2
Diberville, MS 39540
(228) 354-9300
Kristen M. Bevill 3531 Lakeland Dr.
Suite 1060
Flowood, MS 39232
(601) 420-5810
Joseph A. Kwentus Precise Research Centers, Brentwood Plza
3531 Lakeland Drive, Suite 1060
Flowood, MS 39232
(601) 420-5810
David Durham Richardson, M.D. 2659 Lakeland Drive
Flowood, MS 39232
(601) 240-2128
Donald C. Guild, M.D. 3531 Lakeland Drive
Complex B, Suite 1040
Flowood, MS 39232
(601) 936-6781
Charles S. Fillingane, D.O. 1021 North Flowood Drive
Flowood, MS 39232
(601) 664-2424
Johnney R. Bullock, M.D. 62 Highway 587
Suite B
Foxworth, MS 39483
(601) 424-3540
Rick Dean Hoover, M.D. 3300 Ladnier Road
Gautier, MS 39553
(228) 497-2652
John P. Hey, M.D. 405 River Road
Greenwood, MS 38930
(662) 453-6177
Dr. Cedric Edwards M.D.
CARE Clinic for Drug Addiction in Central Mississippi
2340 Sunset Drive – Suite C
Grenada, MS 38901
(662) 508-0098
Barry W. Willbrandt, M.D. Memorial Hospital at Gulfport`
4500 13th Street
Gulfport, MS 39501
(228) 865-3151
Shawn Xun Mei, M.D. 15164 Dedeaux Road
Suite B
Gulfport, MS 39503
(412) 606-4345
Joel Berman Burwell, D.O. 9344 Three Rivers Road
Gulfport, MS 39503
(228) 863-0500
Tongii Lashelle Shavers, M.D. 11150 Highway 49 North
Gulfport, MS 39503
(228) 575-1912
Tonya Grace Creech, D.O. 908 West Pine Street
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
(601) 544-7012
Ikechukwu Okorie, M.D. 908 West Pine Street
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
(601) 544-7012
Mohamed Bockarie Jah, M.D., MBA, FACP 500 Katie Avenue
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
(601) 545-1945
Mohamed Bockarie Jah, M.D., MBA, FACP 2503 Glendale Avenue
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
(601) 582-5805
Michelle Q. Lai, M.D. 6855 Lincoln Road Ext.
Suite 50
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
(601) 336-7700
Charles Sledge, M.D. 2253 Broadway Drive
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
(601) 288-2850
Randall L. Sherman, M.D. Pine Grove Behavioral Health&Addiction S
2255 Broadway Drive
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
(601) 288-4840
J.D. Dumas III 5192 Old Highway 11
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
(601) 268-0929
Deepak Khemka, M.D. Pinegrove Behavorial Health
2255 Broadway Drive
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
(601) 288-4801
Kevin Passer, M.D. 5317-4 Old Highway 11
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
(601) 261-9101
Diane M. Walker, M.D. 2255 Broadway Drive
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
(601) 228-4740
Santosh Kale, M.D. Horn Lake Family Practice
3102 Goodman Road West
Horn Lake, MS 38637
(662) 342-6677
Achin Sharma, M.D. Horn Lake Family Practice
3102 Goodman Road
Horn Lake, MS 38637
(662) 342-6677
Jeanne Nizigiye, M.D. 1860 Chadwick Drive
Suite 200
Jackson, MS 39204
(601) 376-2997
Oliver W. Cunnigen, M.D. 1134 Winter Street
Jackson, MS 39204
(601) 948-5572
Zina D. Lee, M.D. 5429 Robinson Road Extension
Jackson, MS 39204
(601) 914-0163
Krishan K. Gupta, M.D. 1059 Ridgewood Place
Jackson, MS 39211
(601) 957-3211
John Thomas Barringer, M.D. 1551 E County Line Rd
Jackson, MS 39211
(601) 665-0017
Robert L. Moore, M.D. 5604 Old Canton Road
Jackson, MS 39211
(601) 991-1044
William Lelon Aron, Jr., M.D. 1551 East County Line Road
Jackson, MS 39211
(601) 206-9326
Scott Aaron Carlton, M.D. 5005 Old Canton Road
Jackson, MS 39211
(601) 978-2212
William Samuel Cook, Jr., M.D. 4500 I-55 North
Suite 265
Jackson, MS 39211-5931
(601) 366-3660
Lori Hill Marshall, M.D. 514-F East Woodrow Wilson Avenue
Jackson, MS 39216
(601) 982-3132
Shashidhar M. Shettar, M.D. University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 North State Street, Box 130
Jackson, MS 39216
(601) 984-5805
Gurdial S. Sandhu, M.D. VAMC Department of Psychiatry
1500 East Woodrow Wilson Drive
Jackson, MS 39216
(601) 362-4471×1250
Andrew Charles Bishop, M.D. 971 Lakeland Drive
Suite 354
Jackson, MS 39216
(601) 982-1010
Rajeev Lochan Panguluri, M.D. VA Medical Center
1500 East Woodrow Wilson Drive
Jackson, MS 39216
(601) 362-4471
Carroll Brent Meador, M.D. Byram Family Doctors
7215 Siwell Road, P.O. Box 720369
Jackson, MS 39272
(601) 373-2204
Annie Borders-Blackwell, M.D. 16329 Highway 603
Kiln, MS 39556
(313) 850-4668
William G. Clark, M.D. Clark Psychiatric Services
1603 Old Amy Road
Laurel, MS 39440
(601) 428-7100
Stephen Allen Coachys, M.D. 7732 Old Canton Road
Madison, MS 39110
(601) 856-1262
Karen Holloway, M.D. 742 D Magnolia Street
Madison, MS 39110
(601) 607-5107
Harry Gene Hunt, M.D. 120 5th Avenue
McComb, MS 39648
(601) 249-0013
Robert S. Bloome, D.O. 150 Marion Avenue
McComb, MS 39648
(601) 249-0013
Mohammad Hazem Ibrahim Ahmad Sabry, M.D. 215 South Magnolia Street
Mccomb, MS 39648
(601) 250-1055
Benjamin O. Yarbrough, M.D. Route 1
Box I-0
Meadville, MS 39653
(601) 384-3199
Grace Patricia Kelly, M.D. 5000 Highway 39 North
Meridian, MS 39301
(601) 581-9942
Jeffrey Louis Mcgilbra, M.D. 5000 Highway 39 North
Meridian, MS 39301
(601) 581-9942
Terry T. Jordan, M.D. 5000 Highway 39 North
Meridian, MS 39301
(601) 482-2400
Timothy Summers, M.D. 5000 Highway 39 North
Meridian, MS 39301
(601) 483-6211
Dunk A. Ellis III 3736 Main Street
Box 8572
Moss Point, MS 39563
(228) 474-2212
Bertha Blanchard, M.D. 606 North Pearl Street
Natchez, MS 39120
(601) 818-3318
Alphonse M. Reed, M.D. 324 Linton Avenue
Natchez, MS 39120
(601) 870-9515
Charles D. Borum 131 Jefferson Davis Boulevard
Suite F
Natchez, MS 39120
(601) 442-0200
Benita L. Cushingberry-Turner, M.D. Natchez Medical Foundation
46 Sgt Prentiss Drive
Natchez, MS 39120
(601) 445-2248
Alfredo Rodriquez, M.D. 140 East Franklin
Box 1710
Natchez, MS 39121
(601) 446-6634
Jason B. Dees, M.D. 300 Oxford Road
New Albany, MS 38652
(662) 534-8166
Barry W. Willbrandt, M.D. 3091 Bienville Boulevard
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
(228) 818-5155
Edward Floyd Aldridge, M.D. 3091 Bienville Boulevard
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
(228) 818-5155
Anthony Wade Jackson, Sr., M.D. 6155 Timber Oaks Drive
Olive Branch, MS 38654
(662) 419-2819
Edward Ikem Gbemudu, M.D. 6953 Oak Forest Road
Olive Branch, MS 38654
(662) 893-0450
Paul King, M.D. 8135 Goodman Road
Olive Branch, MS 38654
(662) 893-7102
Isham Harrison Evans, M.D. 2704 West Oxford Loop
Suite 110
Oxford, MS 38655
(662) 236-5773
Thomas D Fowlkes, M.D. 1914 University Avenue
P.O. Box 1955
Oxford, MS 38655
(662) 234-7601
Kevin S. Cooper, M.D. 4305 Denny Avenue
Pascagoula, MS 39581
(228) 762-2044
Richard Allen Nance, D.O. 1106 Central Drive
Suite 1
Philadelphia, MS 39350
(601) 656-6921
Stephanie Jo Dyer, M.D. 2202 East Canal Street
Picayune, MS 39466
(601) 749-5060
Jaishankar Jagadeesan, M.D. 1150 Berry Street
P.O. Box 1373
Prentiss, MS 39474
(601) 792-3200
Charles Randall Griffith, M.D. 5808 US Highway 11
Purvis, MS 39475
(601) 794-4028
Samuel M. Allen, M.D. 305 South Archusa Avenue
Quitman, MS 39355
(601) 776-2123
Larry F. Gibson, M.D. P.O. Box 40
202 Sylvarena Avenue
Raleigh, MS 39153
(601) 433-6886
Phil D. Thompson, D.O. 342 Magnolia Drive
P.O. Box 10
Raleigh, MS 39153
(601) 782-9801
Saloum Cisse, M.D. 119 South Oak Street
Raymond, MS 39154
(601) 526-0790
Don A. Gibson, M.D. 811 Highway 49 South
Richland, MS 39218
(601) 932-5060
Parveen Kumar American Psych Associates
299 Highway 51, Suite F2
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(601) 720-7605
Scott Lewis Hambleton, M.D. 7049 Old Canton Road
Suite 2001
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(601) 850-9220
James Joseph Kramer, M.D. 877 North Park Drive
Suite 200
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(601) 956-1992
Sayed Ahmed Aamir Raza, M.D. 731 South Pear Orchard Road
Suite 5
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(601) 952-0015
Susan Henry Taylor, M.D. 405 Fontaine Place
Suite 102
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(601) 956-1992
Charles Calvin Coleman, M.D. 576 Highland Colony Parkway
Suite 100
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(601) 853-2676
Michael Leo Baker, M.D. Jackson Rural Health Clinic
29 South Fourth Street
Rolling Fork, MS 39159
(662) 873-4361
Southland Recovery 8830 Centre St., Ste 5
Southaven, MS 38671
(662) 510-2523
Kenneth Osita Edmunds, M.D. 8869 Centre Street
Suite A
Southaven, MS 38671
(662) 470-5544
Edward Burris Eldred, D.O. 6857 Cobblestone Boulevard
Southaven, MS 38672
(901) 566-1002
Savira V. Sidhu, M.D. 5740 Getwell Road
Building 4C
Southaven, MS 38672-7631
(662) 892-5000
Placid M. Eze 900 Stark Road
Starkville, MS 39759
(662) 323-4400
Lee Magro, Jr, M.D. 4428 South Eason Boulelvard
Tupelo, MS 38801
(662) 844-4449
Dennis Earl Smith, Jr. 1665 South Green Street
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 377-2189
Chris L. Park, D.O. 2885 McCullough Boulevard
Suite D
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 322-0996
James Robert Lundy, M.D. North Miss Family Medicine Residency
1665 South Green Street
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 377-2189
Troy Jun Ostrander, M.D. 2885 McCullough Boulevard
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 322-0996
Ross Edmond Collins, Jr., M.D. Region 3 Mental Health Center
920 Boone Street
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 844-3531
Sharon Collins, M.D. 155 Hospital Drive
P.O. Box 424
Tylertown, MS 39667
(601) 876-5337
Carla Mitchell Armstrong, M.D. 155 Hospital Drive
Tylertown, MS 39667
(601) 876-5337
Russell E. Belenchia, M.D. 24345 Highway 15
Union, MS 39365
(601) 774-8211
Daniel P. Edney, M.D. 2080 South Frontage Road
Vicksburg, MS 39180
(601) 262-1000
Stanley R. Easterling, M.D. The Street Clinic
104 McAuley Drive
Vicksburg, MS 39183
(601) 631-2626
William M. Billington, M.D. 731 Medical Center Drive
West Point, MS 39773
(662) 494-6400