Treatment Options

Methadone is a long-acting opioid agonist. The dosage of this medication is carefully adjusted to reduce withdrawal symptoms and cravings for other opioids. When safely and effectively prescribed, Methadone can help patients to function and pursue goals like improving their health, enjoying relationships with family and friends, working, volunteering and all the things that improve their quality of life.

Methadone maintenance treatment is the most-studied treatment for opioid use disorder in history. Six decades of research across multiple countries have produced consistent findings: life expectancy, health, and social outcomes all improve.

Buprenorphine-based treatment comes in under-the-tongue tablets or a quick-dissolving film. These forms are usually taken daily. This medication also comes in an injectable form which can be taken about once a month instead. Buprenorphine medications have some safety advantages that can make them more flexible than other opioid agonist medications, and many patients find them to be effective treatments.

Your doctor at Metro City can help you decide if buprenorphine could be a good choice of medication to help in your recovery.

SROM is a formulation of morphine designed to be taken once a day to reduce withdrawal symptoms and cravings so that patients can reduce and stop using other more risky opioid drugs. Like the other OAT medications, SROM is carefully adjusted to be safe and effective, so that you can function and focus on your health and recovery goals and benefit from other supports to help you reach them.