Buprenorphine as an Alternative Treatment for Drug AddictsAbstractOpioids addiction affects a lot of people every day. Science everyday is looking for new ways totreat these people to get out of this addiction. Methadone has been used for the last forty yearsas the principal treatment for opioids patients. Lately, Buprenorphine is a new treatment that isbeen used and new studies are made to find how efficient is this treatment. This paper presentdifferent studies about how buprenorphine works on patients that were opioids users. Thesestudies look into effects and reactions of the patients when treated with buprenorphine. Most ofthe studies discussed in this paper reported positive results when buprenorphine was used as atreatment even when compared to methadone treatment.Introduction conidine (0.150 mg Catapresan PL ®). This The use of opioids like heroin is was administrated in addiction becausewidely spread. Since the 70’s methadone has many of the patients in the treatment havebeen the treatment used to treat patients that other addictions. For example many of themwant to get out of opioids. Buprenorphine is are alcoholic or smoke to; conidine is aa new drug that has been used to treat these medication use to treat this other kinds ofpatients. Several studies had been made to addictions. Is importance to maintain afind out how effective this drug is. Most of control physiology on the patients for thethe studies discussed in this paper reflect best effect of the treatment. Additionalthat the drug buprenorphine as treatment actions were taken such as, sedatives andworks better than methadone in most cases. psychological support among others.Next, this paper presents the scheme of the Finally, the patients were placed underbuprenorfine treatment, its beneficial effects, psychological treatment, therapeuticssecondary effects, treatment during communities, group therapy among otherspregnancy and after delivery, brain response support groups.to buprenorphine, and a comparison between The reason why these patients startedbuprenorphine and methadone. using opioids varies; also they have differentScheme of the Buprenorphine Treatment habits such as smoking and drinking On a study made in 1994 in the alcohol. Most of the patients in this studySertox where the use of buprenorphine will had different reaction to the treatment. Somebe used as treatment for detoxification of of them needed a second treatment ofpatients with addiction to opioids (AO). Ten buprenorphine and clonodine because theypatients that were treated at Sertox from are needed; only one of them presented totalJanuary 1994 to May 1999 were selected to remission. After six months of the treatmentparticipate in this investigation. A only two patients presented total or partialtherapeutic scheme was developed to treat remission. After the patients finished theirthese patients in this research. The treatment a support treatment must be placedtherapeutic scheme is as follow; initially if not most of these patients will go back tocompress doses of 0.216 mg of opioids. This study concluded that thebuprenorphine were administrated every six pharmalogical properties of buprenorphinehours and was decreasing the doses are accepted by the patients and can be usedgradually by 50% every 48 hours until was as a tool to treat patients addicted to opioids.totally suppressed. At the same timemaintenance for 28 was administrated using
Beneficial Effects of Buprenorphine is the patients responses to the need of opiod But the effects on a drug against use. In the same study other patientsanother drug can be beneficial or can harm presented decreased respiratory rate andthe receptor. The benefits of buprenorphine drowsiness. Also is shown that when thecompared to the effects of opiod are shown dose is doubled the patient can present athrough different studies. In a study made by close-dependent increase in analgesia.Sacerdote et al. (2008) they found that the Analgesia is a condition denominated as theuse of opiod such as morphine and heroin absence of feel of pain in the body and many