Scientific Evidence as to why recovery care initiates brain changes to aid in addiction recovery

[HenryS354]

There have been a lot of posts latetly from many users beginning methadone, suboxone or other Opiate replacement and maintenance treatments.

I wanted to stress the importance of recovery care during this time to increase success, and to an extent make withdrawals easier!  And why and how it works.  The article hints to suboxone primarily, but upon reading you will find that this doesnt only occur in patients on replacement therapy.

This explains why the majority of those tapering off suboxone and methadone with success have had an active aftercare program in place for their success.

http://www.naabt.org/education/behavior-modification-and-the-brain.cfm

Henry

Henry

[salsinator]

Great post Henry and comments Gnarly.  I used suboxone for nearly 4 years, but things didn't get better for me until I finally got into therapy and started working on "me".  Once I started understanding my addiction and behaviors that kept me in addiction, I started to get the drive to get off the sub and start living completely clean.  Sub and methadone help lots of people, but just maintaining and not working on anything else will keep you in your active addiction.  Thanks for posting Henry.

[gnarly_1]

Good post Henry just got back from the link...interesting stuff....to many people wind up going on methadone or sub and simple use the narcotic to keep there addiction on hold
it is important to stress that this ''hold'' period is for time to work with a conslor or other aftercare program like the 12 step progam of N/Aor A/A... to many people are just content to take the drug and not work on the critical aftercare portion of there treatment that is why we have so many people staying on the stuff for years on end making the withdrawal that much more difficult....it took 2 yrs of aftercare just to convince me I had a problem im happy im no longer chained to a bottle of methadone.......Gnarly