Oklahoma Methadone Clinics

Oklahoma Methadone Clinics
Southern Oklahoma Treatment Services, Ardmore 905 Holiday Dr. Ardmore (580) 226-5003
Oklahoma Treatment Services, LLC 610 W. Hensley Blvd Bartlesville 918-337-6007
Southern Oklahoma Treatment Services 1307 SW Washington Avenue Lawton (580) 355-7500
Southern Oklahoma Treatment Services 5912 US Hwy 70 Mead (580) 745-9083
Quapaw Counseling Services 58150 East 66 Road Miami (918) 542-1853
VCPHCS IV, LLC 5401 SW 29th Oklahoma (405) 681-2003
Southern Oklahoma Treatment Services 4149 Highline Blvd. Oklahoma City (405) 942-7650
Oklahoma City Veterans Administration Medical Center 921 Northeast 13th St. Oklahoma City (405) 456-2858
Oklahoma City Comprehensive Treatment Center 1737 Linwood Blvd. Oklahoma City (405) 353-9876
Hefner Comprehensive Treatment Center 948 W Hefner Rd. Oklahoma City (405) 353-9500
Oklahoma Treatment Services, LLC 117 E. Ray Fine Blvd. Roland (918) 427-3344
Oklahoma Treatment Services, LLC 3445 S Sheridan Road E Tulsa (918) 610-3366
Tulsa Comprehensive Treatment Center 5550 S Garnett Rd., Suite 200 Tulsa (918) 935-0055
Keetoowah Cherokee Treatment Services 2727 East Admiral Place Tulsa 918-835-3017
 

Oklahoma 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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Lynn Dean Baggett, M.D. Rolling Hills Hospital
1000 Rolling Hills Lane
Ada, OK 74820
(405) 487-6255
Elizabeth Romanik Kinzie, M.D. 800 Share Drive
Alva, OK 73717
(580) 430-3366
Baker Fore, M.D. 1005 15th NW
Ardmore, OK 73401
(580) 223-4800
Mary E. Weare, M D. 300 South Wyandotte
Bartlesville, OK 74003
(918) 336-3277
Anton A. S. Surja, M.D. 226 SE Debell
Building B
Bartlesville, OK 74006
(918) 331-1020
James C. Meehan, Jr. 2033 West Houston Avenue
Broken Arrow, OK 74012
(918) 743-3636
Wendell L. Richards, D.O. 114 North Highway 18
Chandler, OK 74834
(405) 258-2500
Jack Stephen Aldridge, D.O. 201 West Bluee Starr Drive
Claremore, OK 74017
(918) 341-4825
Charles Clinton Smith, D.O. 102 South Moore
Claremore, OK 74017
(918) 342-6200
Robert Brian Hightower, D.O. 1025 East 2nd
Cushing, OK 74023
(918) 225-3627
Frank L. Hubbard, D.O. 2340 East Main
Cushing, OK 74023
(918) 225-6904
Robert R. Horanzy, M.D. 107 South 3rd Street
Davis, OK 73030
(580) 369-2803
Jennifer Michelle Morris, M.D. 16212 Sonoma Park Drive
Edmond, OK 73013
(405) 285-2260
Michael Zann McMahan, M.D. 1616 South Kelly
Edmond, OK 73013
(405) 513-7600
Paul P. Cheng, M.D. 723 West Randolph
Suite 6
Enid, OK 73701
(580) 366-5407
Constance G. Honeycutt, D.O. 13809 South Casper Street
Suite D
Glenpool, OK 74033
(918) 291-0189
Kenneth Wayne Gibson, D.O. NEO Health
124 East Main
Hulbert, OK 74441
(918) 772-2879
Bette Bischoff, M.D. Jenks Health Team
715 West Main Street, Unit # S
Jenks, OK 74037
(918) 299-9447
Gerald D. Wootan, D.O. 715 West Main Street
Suite S
Jenks, OK 74037
(918) 299-9447
Sameh W. Hanna, M.D. 3201 West Gore Boulevard
Lawton, OK 73505
(580) 291-9970
Richard Thomas Brittingham, M.D. 3201 West Gore Boulevard
Suite 304
Lawton, OK 73505
(580) 353-6760
Daniel J. Joyce, D.O. 1202 NW Arlington Avenue
Lawton, OK 73507
(580) 248-2288
Penny L. Hoover, M.D. 1202 North West Arlington
Lawton, OK 73507
(580) 248-2288
Heidi Lynne Malling, M.D. 1202 NW Arlington Avenue
Lawton, OK 73507
(580) 248-2288
Robert Michael Westcott, M.D. 409 South Main Street
Lindsay, OK 73052
(405) 756-1240
Nelson C. Onaro, D.O. 320 East Delaware
McAlester, OK 74501
(918) 423-5916
Gerald D. Wootan, D.O. 1500 South George Nigh Expressway
McAlester, OK 74501
(918) 426-4338
Michael F. Boyer, M.D. 4 East Clark Bass
Suite 205
McAlester, OK 74501
(918) 421-8897
Jack R Doney, M.D. 310 2nd Avenue Southwest Street
Suite 201
Miami, OK 74354
(918) 542-8477
William Allen Mitchell, M.D. 1326 Northwest 12th
Moore, OK 73170
(405) 912-1333
Keith Wayne Russell, D.O. 1326 NW 12th Street
Moore, OK 73170
(405) 912-1333
Laurie A. McLemore, M.D. Neohealth Muskogee
1328 South York Street
Muskogee, OK 74403
(918) 683-0470
Kim D. Floyd, D.O. 2400 Palmer Circle
Norman, OK 73069
(405) 310-2484
James M Alvis, M.D. 2412 Palmer Circle
Norman, OK 73069
(405) 321-6347
Min Zhong, M.D. 900 East Main Street
Norman, OK 73071
(405) 573-6602
Joseph M. Ripperger, M.D. 900 North Porter Avenue
Suite 200
Norman, OK 73071
(405) 579-4111
Donna Rae Hill, D.O. 3280 Marshall Avenue
Norman, OK 73072
(405) 579-5858
Richard Raymond Hartman, M.D. 3800 Stoneleigh Place
Norman, OK 73072
(405) 573-9905
Compass Clinic OKC 701 NE 36th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
(405) 445-0869
Nilaksha Bhatt, M.D. 716 NW 17th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73103
(405) 760-6335
Krishnamurthy Ashok, M.D. 1211 North Shartel
Suite 208
Oklahoma City, OK 73103
(405) 235-4440
Phillip H. Lindsey, M.D. 716 NW 17th
Oklahoma City, OK 73103-2118
(405) 494-1915
Neelofar Lalani, M.D. VA Medical Center
921 NE 13th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
(405) 456-3217
Elizabeth A. Foote, M.D. G. Rainey Williams Pavilion – 3rd Floor
920 Stanton L. Young Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
(405) 271-4488
Lorenzo Araujo, M.D. VA Medical Center
921 NE 13th Street, 8 West
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
(405) 270-0501
Nicasio S. Gutierrez, Jr., M.D. VA Medical Center
921 NE 13th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
(405) 456-5555
Brett Cauthen, M.D. 701 NE 36th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
(405) 445-0869
Billy H. Stout, M.D. 1215 NW 25th
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
(405) 525-2525
Matthew James Haag, M.D. 2801 N.W. 23rd Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73107
(405) 602-2525
Michael McLaughlin, D.O. 4221 South Western Avenue
Suite 5050
Oklahoma City, OK 73109
(405) 945-4359
Anibal Avila, M.D. 1111 SW 44th
Oklahoma City, OK 73109
(405) 634-4934
Siavash Nael, M.D. 4720 South Western Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73109
(405) 634-5529
Russell Floyd Allen, M.D. 5300 North Meridian Avenue
Suite 10
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 609-1671
Amal Chakraburtty, M.D. 5100 North Brookline Avenue
Suite 900
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 604-3170
Marvin Lane Peyton, M.D. 2601 NW Expressway
Suite 600 West
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 607-2233
Gary David Casper, M.D. 5009 North Pennsylvania, #111
P.O. Box 20545
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 840-4800
Edward Raymond Armstrong, M.D. 6501 North Brookline
Suite 135-A
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(866) 755-4258
Jorg J. Pahl, M.D. 2301 West I-44 Service Road
Suite 310
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 525-2222
Hal Vorse, M.D. Medical Therapy Group
5009 North Pennsylvania, Suite 111
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 840-4800
Gita G. Pujari, M.D. 3535 NW 58th Street
Suite 800E
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 525-2222
Labib Sam Musallam, M.D 4400 North West 63rd
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
(406) 942-0090
Charles D. Taylor, M.D. 4409 North Classen Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
(405) 525-7751
DeMille Winston Madoux, M.D. 4115 North Classen Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
(405) 605-3670
Rebecca A. Feliciano, M.D. St. Anthony Out-Patient Clinic
2129 SW Square
Oklahoma City, OK 73119
(405) 715-5790
Charles J. Shaw, M.D. 3413 Brookend Court
Oklahoma City, OK 73120
(405) 753-4962
William P. Becker, D.O. 8600 South Pennsylvania
Oklahoma City, OK 73159
(405) 682-3613
Ronald L. Hill, M.D. Rightway Medical
9017 South I-35 Service Road
Oklahoma City, OK 73160
(405) 616-3366
John Dale Grizzle II, M.D. 8325 NW Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK 73162
(405) 728-8000
John Timothy Baldwin, M.D. 10312 Little Pond Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73162
(405) 722-8173
John Timothy Baldwin, M.D. 10813W North Macarthur
Oklahoma City, OK 73162-6863
(405) 792-2486
Kenneth Dale Priest, M.D. 15300 Country Edge Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73170
(405) 550-7964
Robert Baxter Nisbet, M.D. University of Oklahoma Health Sci Center
920 Stanton L. Young Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73190
(405) 271-2474
Wesley Mark Ingram, D.O. 8426 North 123 East Avenue
Owasso, OK 74055
(918) 805-1072
Bryan V. Marsh, M.D. 8426 North 123rd East Avenue
Owasso, OK 74055
(918) 376-4980
Stephen R. Kovacs, D.O. 13616 East 103rd Street North
Suite A
Owasso, OK 74055
(918) 274-8555
S. Addison Beeson, D.O. Urgernt Care of Green Country
13616 East 103rd Street North, Suite A
Owasso, OK 74055
(918) 274-8555
John C. Leatherman, M.D. Academic Family Medical Clinic
230 5th Street
Pawhuska, OK 74056
(918) 287-9112
Gordon Page Laird, D.O. 304 Boulder
Pawnee, OK 74058
(918) 762-3601
Nancy E. Grayson, M.D. 425 Fairview Avenue
Unit #3
Ponca City, OK 74601
(580) 765-3900
Melinda Rother Allen, D.O. 1201 East Hartford Avenue
Ponca City, OK 74601
(580) 762-1911
Cynthia Almond, M.D. 309 East Ray Fine Boulevard
P.O. Box 897
Roland, OK 74954
(918) 503-6252
Dennis Sidney Blackstad, D.O. 730 East Tafte Avenue
Sapulpa, OK 74066
(918) 216-4006
Keith Alan Conaway, M.D. 3700 North Kickapoo
Suite 124
Shawnee, OK 74804
(405) 273-6383
Rudolph Joseph Wolf, D.O. 201 East Second Street
P.O. Box 428
Skiatook, OK 74070
(918) 396-1262
Layne Evan Subera, D.O. 201 East Second
Skiatook, OK 74070
(918) 396-1262
Olakunle D. Ajanaku, M.D. 1705 East 19th
Suite 400
Tulsa, OK 74104
(918) 742-5964
William R. Ford, M.D. 4870 South Lewis
Suite 115
Tulsa, OK 74105
(918) 493-1945
Peter A. Rao, M.D. 5544 South Lewis Avenue
Suite 600
Tulsa, OK 74105
(918) 747-4900
William Yarborough, M.D. 2815 S. Sheudan
Tulsa, OK 74129
(918) 619-4100
George A. Ciolac, M.D. 4444 East 41st Street
Tulsa, OK 74135
(918) 619-4199
Oliver A. Cerqueira, D.O. OU Physicians – Internal Medicine
4444 East 41st Street
Tulsa, OK 74135
(918) 619-4184
Gary Raymond Denny, D.O. University of Oklahoma College of Med
4502 East 41st Street
Tulsa, OK 74135
(918) 619-4176
Bryan A. Van Doren, M.D. University of Oklahoma SOCM
4502 East 41st Street
Tulsa, OK 74135-2512
(918) 619-4406
Benjamin Robert Crawford, M.D. 4612 South Harvard Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74136
(918) 747-5565
Michael D. Dubriwny, M.D. 6655 South Yale Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74136
(918) 491-5752
Mary-Anne Ottilie Kowol, M.D. 6655 South Yale Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74136
(918) 491-3700
Heather Lousie Lyle Hall, M.D. 6655 South Yale Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74136
(918) 491-5800
Frank Hackl, M.D. 2448 East 81st Street
Suite 363
Tulsa, OK 74137
(918) 477-5952
Ralph Dell Bernier, M.D. 3445 South Sheridan Road East
Tulsa, OK 74145
(918) 610-3366
Richard Zielinski, M.D. 712 East Third Street
Watonga, OK 73772
(580) 623-3376
Rebecca A. Biorato, M.D. 1615 South Mustang Road
Suite H
Yukon, OK 73099
(405) 324-5566