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Tampa, as well as the state of Florida, is experiencing an alarming surge in opioid addiction. This has become a national epidemic with opiate overdose becoming a leading cause of death for certain age groups in various areas of the country. Opiate addiction has been on the increase for over a decade due in large part to the excessive prescribing of opioid pain medications. Tampa offers a selection of qualified physicians approved to treat opiate withdrawal symptoms with suboxone. Suboxone is widely regarded as a very positive medical intervention for eliminating painful withdrawal. Buprenorphine is the active ingredient in suboxone that binds to the brain’s opiate receptor sites for a prolonged period of time consequently eliminating withdrawal while not producing a drug high in established, suboxone tolerant patients. If you are a local doctor aiming to treat Tampa 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.



Tampa Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Renee Haney, M.D. 718 West Dr. MLK, Jr. Boulevard
Suite 100
Tampa, FL 33603
(813) 224-0355
Mohammed Delawar Hossain, M.D. MDH Medical Clinic
701 West Martin Luther King Blvd Ste. 4
Tampa, FL 33603
(813) 514-6195
Kendrick Eugene Duldulao, M.D. 1419 West Waters Avenue
Suite # 121
Tampa, FL 33604
(813) 931-1600
Patrick G. Watson, M.D. 8751 North 30th Street
Tampa, FL 33604
(813) 980-2422
Jason Baker Fields, M.D. DACCO
4422 East Columbus Drive
Tampa, FL 33605
(813) 384-4010
Lawrence Steven Wilson, M.D. 4422 East Columbus Drive
Tampa, FL 33605
(813) 831-4010
Anthony Charles Granell, M.D. 4422 East Columbus Drive
Tampa, FL 33605
(813) 384-4010
Onelia H. Ramirez-Cook, M.D. 1703 Richardson Place, Hyde Park
Tampa, FL 33606
(240) 505-1941
Jose M. De La Torre, M.D. 118 South Oregon Avenue
Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 253-2273
Michael R. Fox, M.D. 402 West Platt Street
Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 956-5431
Carissa Heim Stone, M.D. 118 South Oregon Avenue
Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 253-2273
Eduardo L. Gonzalez Rivera, M.D. 2123 West MLK Jr. Boulevard
Suite 101
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 872-6577
Eduardo L. Gonzalez Rivera, M.D. 2123 West MLK Jr. Boulevard
Suite 101
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 872-6577
Jose Luis Cruz, M.D. 4006 Fiesta Plaza
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 876-7700
Steven I. Arkin, M.D. 1913 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 376-3790
Gregory Thomas Flynn, M.D. 2808 West Martin Luther King Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 872-9200
Hany Botros-Mikhail, M.D. 1954 West MLK Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 414-0770
Joseph Molea, M.D. 4350 West Cypress Street
Suite 830
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 876-4850
Emily Elizabeth Lazarou, M.D. 3030 North Rocky Point Drive, West
Suite 262
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 374-0171
Eric L. Weinstock, M.D. 5005 West Laurel Street
Unit #99
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 636-8300
Joseph Rashkin, M.D. 2727 West Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Suite 760
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 877-7758
George M. Northrup, M.D. 3601 West Azeele Street
Tampa, FL 33609
(813) 350-9500
Angela K. Jubert, M.D. 825 West Linebaugh Avenue
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 931-5560
Jesus M. Gil Gutierrez, M.D. 12901 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard
Mdc 41
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 631-2570
William H. Middleton, M.D. Health Care Connection
825 West Linebaugh Avenue
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 931-5560
Michael Paul Strolla, D.O. 825 West Linebaugh Avenue
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 931-5560
David P. Myers, M.D. 825 West Linebough Avenue
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 931-5560
Allan Richard Escher, Jr., M.D. 12902 Magnolia Drive
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 745-8486
Hee Soong Lee, M.D. USFPG-Morsani ASC
13330 USF Laurel Drive
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 396-2458
Richard M. Smith, M.D. 1010 East Busch Boulevard
Suite 103
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 935-7987
Georgia Jeane Laliotis, M.D. 13000 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard
Unit #127
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 972-7633
David Cheesman, D.O. 320 West Fletcher Avenue
Suite 110
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 251-5290
Derek Lee Robben, M.D. 13000 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard
116a
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 631-2575
David A. Dada, M.D. 3515 East Fletcher Avenue
MDC Box 14
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 974-8900
William M. Hervey, M.D. 3515 East Fletcher Avenue
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 974-8900
David Houston VanDercar, M.D. 3500 East Fletcher Avenue
Suite 502
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 769-5629
Joseph James Fastaia, Jr., M.D. Physical Medicine Center
14523 University Point Place
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 978-0020
Carlos A. Santana, M.D. 3515 East Flecher Avenue
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 974-8900
Andre Benson, M.D. 14522 University Point Place
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 410-5727
Michael Alfred Weitzner, M.D. Helios Pain and Psychiatry Center
3262 Cove Bend Drive
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 631-0102
Debra M. Barnett, M.D. 14437 Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 972-7946
Mary Stedman, M.D. 3212 Cove Bend Drive
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 971-8311
Precioso Cahanap Camposano, M.D. 3956 West Hillsborough Avenue
Tampa, FL 33614
(813) 889-7246
Muluken Demessie Frew, M.D. 2802 West Waters Avenue
Tampa, FL 33614
(813) 443-4611
Fred Joseph Turner, M.D. 4700 North Habana Avenue
Suite 403
Tampa, FL 33614
(813) 874-1644
Jose Ernesto Alvarez-Bernal, M.D. 7001 N. Dale Mabry Hwy.
Suite A
Tampa, FL 33614
(813) 932-2848
David Omotayo Ikudayisi, M.D. 3651-B West Waters Avenue
Tampa, FL 33614
(813) 932-9798

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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