Hydrocodone Addiction Treatments

When your body is presented with an opioid like hydrocodone, there are three kinds of receptors in your brain that are activated. Named for Greek letters, your mu, kappa, and delta receptors are activated in response to any kind of opioid--including illegal drugs like heroin and prescription drugs like hydrocodone and oxycodone. When these receptors are activated, they induce analgesic and euphoria.

Prolonged activation of these sites causes the brain to respond in a way that causes two phenomena: tolerance and dependency. As the brain is exposed to opioids more frequently, it causes it to need higher doses to achieve the same analgesic and euphoric qualities. In addition, the brain starts to become dependent upon the opioid, and to experience painful withdrawal symptoms when it is removed.

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At Meditox, we use the buprenorphine to treat opiate addictions. This opioid derivative causes activation of the mu and kappa receptors, but blocks the activity of the delta receptor. As a result, the buprenorphine is able to curb the withdrawal symptoms of the patient without creating a new dependency.

Buprenorphine works so well because of several factors. For one, buprenorphine tolerance never develops, so there's never any need to increase doses (in fact, we decrease them until you no longer need buprenorphine). In addition, buprenorphine doses experience a "ceiling effect" that prevents higher doses from being any more effective than moderate doses, so it carries a very low risk of abuse.

If you feel that Meditox might be the right solution for you or your loved one, please call us for a toll-free and private consultation:

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