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Tucson, along with many other U.S. cities, is experiencing a disturbing increase in opiate addiction. This has become a nationwide epidemic with opiate overdose becoming a leading cause of death for several age groups in various regions of the country. Opioid abuse has been on the increase for over a decade due in large part to the excessive prescribing of opioid pain medications. Tucson offers a selection of qualified doctors approved to treat opiate withdrawal symptoms with suboxone. Suboxone is widely regarded as a beneficial medical intervention for eliminating problematic withdrawal. Buprenorphine is the active ingredient in suboxone that binds to the brain’s opiate receptor sites for an extended span of time consequently eliminating withdrawal while not producing a drug high in suboxone tolerant patients. If you are a local doctor aiming to treat Tucson 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 professional assistance.



Tucson Buprenorphine Suboxone Doctors
Leonard Frederic Ditmanson, M.D. 101 South Stone
Tucson, AZ 85701
(520) 879-6680
Kimberlee V. Wilson, D.O. 1548 West Sunridge Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704
(918) 931-8157
Marion Anderson Douglass III, M.D. Sonora Behavioral Health Hospital
6050 North Corona Road
Tucson, AZ 85704
(520) 469-8700
William D. Lambert, M.D. Sonora Behavioral Health Hospital
6050 North Corona Road
Tucson, AZ 85704
(520) 469-8700
Shawn G. Platt, D.O. 2828 North Stone Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85705
(520) 622-4580
Barbara Eckstein, M.D. 707 North Alvernon Way
Family Medicine Clinic
Tucson, AZ 85711
(520) 694-8888
Patrick George Sola, M.D. 620 North Craycroft
Tucson, AZ 85711
(520) 748-7108
Rinly Ruiz Gecosala, M.D. 4099 East 22nd Street
Unit 107
Tucson, AZ 85711
(520) 323-4661
Michael S. Kuntzelman, M.D. 4901 East Fifth Street
Tucson, AZ 85711
(520) 327-4505
John William McGettigan, Jr., M.D. 5390 East Erickson Drive
Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 495-5169
Dianne M. Keller, M.D. 6280 East Pima Street
Suite 110
Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 298-7121
Robert B. Cairns, M.D. 1622 North Swan
Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 795-8888
Dianne M. Keller, M.D. 6280 East Pima Street
Suite 110
Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 298-7121
Robert C. Osborne, M.D. 5230 East Farness Drive
Suite 106
Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 792-2323
Joel Moncivaiz, M.D. 2122 North Craycroft Road
Suite 102
Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 909-1342
Daniel T. Mihalyi, M.D. 2122 North Craycroft Road
Suite 102
Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 722-2400
William Patrick Johnson, M.D. 2499 East Ajo Way
Tucson, AZ 85713
(520) 882-5608
David A. Ruben, M.D. 2016 South 4th Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85713
(520) 882-4252
James A. McGlamery, M.D. 2499 E Ajo
Tucson, AZ 85713
(520) 990-7051
Lynn Marie Klimo, M.D. Crisis Respons Center
2802 East District Street
Tucson, AZ 85714
(520) 807-6153
Mark Robert Austein 2950 North Dodge Bouelvard
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 743-2079
Larry G. Onate, M.D. 2340 North Tucson Boulevard
Suite 130
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 325-3323
Janet A. Vargas, M.D. 2340 North Tucson Boulevard
Suite 120
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 325-9176
William Joaquin Adamas-Rappaport, M.D. Compass Health Care
2502 North Dodge
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 618-8736
Steven R. Galper, M.D. Independent Behavioral Health
430 North Tucson Boulevard
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 325-4837
Sandra Mildred Smith, M.D. 2551 East Calle Sin Condena
Tucson, AZ 85718
(520) 229-2101
Herbert Grossman, M.D. 4525 East Skyline Drive
Suite 125
Tucson, AZ 85718
(520) 742-7724
Dennis Dorr Weimer, M.D. 4570 North 1st Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85718
(541) 297-8905
Janice L. Hanlon-Toth, M.D. 3615 N Prince Village Pl
#121
Tucson, AZ 85719
(520) 225-0584
Wenhui Cai, M.D. 3615 North Prince Village Place
Suite 121
Tucson, AZ 85719
(520) 225-0584
James Allen Wilcox, D.O. Tucson VAMC
3601 South 6th Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85723
(520) 792-1450
Suzanne A. Sisley, M.D. The Arizona Telemedicine Program, U of A
Health Sciences Center, PO Box 245105
Tucson, AZ 85724
(480) 922-9015
Meekile Nathan Mason, M.D. University of Arizona
PO Box 245002
Tucson, AZ 85724
(520) 626-3819
Harry David Goldwasser, M.D. 39580 South Lago del Oro Parkway
Tucson, AZ 85739
(520) 624-4000
Saul G. Perea, M.D. 39580 South Lago Del Oro Parkway
Tucson, AZ 85739
(520) 624-4000
Bernice Eleanor Roberts, D.O. Sierra Tucson
39580 South Lago Del Oro Parkway
Tucson, AZ 85739
(520) 624-4000
James G. Seymour, M.D. Sierra Tucson
39580 South Lago del Oro Parkway
Tucson, AZ 85739
(520) 624-4000
Robert R. Johnson, D.O. 39580 South Lago del Oro Parkway
Tucson, AZ 85739
(520) 624-4000
Fredelito B. Tiu, M.D. 1702 West Anklam Road
Suite 110
Tucson, AZ 85745
(520) 792-8300
William Michael Cochran, M.D. Behavioral Awareness Center
1475 West Saint Mary's Road
Tucson, AZ 85745
(520) 629-9126
Frances Lee Moore, M.D. Cottonwood De Tucson
4110 Sweetwater
Tucson, AZ 85745
(520) 743-2150


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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