Suboxone: Take Back Your Life From Pain Medications [Paperback]

James Schaller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 3, 2006

Suboxone is a very special medication. It has the amazing ability to allow patients dependant on legal or illegal medications, to experience a fully painless detoxification. The mechanism of this medication is totally unique, and is successful when other treatments fail. Hardcover version available (ISBN 0-9772729-9-0). Suboxone does not require in-patient treatment. It can simply be called into a local pharmacy over the phone. In contrast to pain medications, Suboxone use is strongly supported by the DEA, FDA, the Justice Department and all major addiction societies. You can take Suboxone 30 days or 30 years. And if you have chronic pain, it may be strong enough to replace your current pain medication. In this one-of-a-kind book, Dr. Schaller offers patients and practitioners highly useful information in the practical use of Suboxone. Dr. Schaller has worked with pain medications and addicted individuals his entire career. He is the author of fifteen books, and has invented dozens of unique pain treatments. He holds a Diplomate from the American Society of Pain Management and is the inventor of an antidepressant with anti-arthritis properties. As long ago as the early 1980's, he was working as the Director of Education at a residential drug rehabilitation facility. Since then, he has helped a wide-range of people from all walks of life, and has successfully treated individuals with both psychiatric and addiction problems. He has extensive experience with 12 Step programs and alternative medicine addiction treatments. His passion is healing the many physiological causes of addiction which are often missed. Dr. Schaller is currently researching the body's own narcotic stimulators, which are usually low in individuals struggling to maintain sobriety. Dr. Schaller offers services to individuals throughout the United States.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Hope Academic Press (May 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977272907
• ISBN-13: 978-0977272907
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Suboxone is now being widely accepted, May 8, 2006

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John Rutger (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suboxone: Take Back Your Life From Pain Medications (Paperback)

Dr. Schaller's highly readable book is able to bring the reader up to speed on Suboxone in no time. It is organized in such a way that you can focus on the topics that are most relevant and then come back and fill in the gaps as you have the time.

Highly recommended.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Many opiate dependent people successfully detox with suboxone, October 11, 2006

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Steven Sponaugle - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suboxone: Take Back Your Life From Pain Medications (Paperback)

Suboxone is less than 10 percent as addictive as Methadone and less than 30 percent as addictive as heroin. Suboxone causes far less testosterone depletion than Methadone. It is available from private practitioners, and can legally be prescribed, for 30 days at a time. In contrast, many Methadone patients suffer long daily commutes, to undesirable neighborhoods, to obtain highly addictive Methadone maintenance. They are often treated rudely and disrespectfully, at Methadone clinics. Methadone was a factor in the deaths of 2,992 people in 2003, up from 790 in 1999, according to an analysis of death certificates conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Less than five percent of Methadone patients are able to taper or withdraw from Methadone's "liquid handcuffs." Calsyn D, Malcy J and Saxon A. Slow tapering from methadone maintenance in a program encouraging indefinite maintenance J Subst Abuse Treat. 2006 Mar;30(2):159-163.

Wider use of Suboxone would reduce these alarming numbers. Physicians certified to administer buprenorphine have recently been allowed to treat 100 patients at a time, instead of 30. Buprenorphine and Suboxone treatment availabilty is rapidly expanding, while in some states, patients travel 3 hours each way to obtain Methadone treatment. With competition from Suboxone certified physicians, Methadone clinics hopefully will be forced to treat patients more considerately and offer more convenient hours of operation.

Suboxone is a readable and thorough discussion of how to use Suboxone to treat pain and opiate dependency. I agree with Dr. Schaller that slower Suboxone tapers are more effective than rapid tapers and decrease opiate relapse rates.

Suboxone explains that the adverse buprenorphine/benzodiazepine reactions reported in France, only occurred when intravenous administration occurred. Suboxone contains detailed lists of possible Cytochrome P450 3A4 detoxification interactions with other medications. Patients and Practitioners will both find these useful.

The discussion distinguishing genetically transmitted anxiety from an unwillingness to cope with normally occuring anxiety is especially needed, in a society which assumes all benzodiazepine patients are "pillheads" or addicts. Dr. Schaller observes that genetically anxious patients can maintain the same therapeutic daily dose for years, while true addicts, continue increasing daily maintainence doses, after the first year. Schaller distinguishes addiction from dependency - something the general public needs to comprehend. Considering Dr. Schallers impressive credentials and ability to detect neurotoxicity, nutritional and hormonal deficiencies and other less apparent anxiety causes, laymen and practitioners need to accept that some anxious patients will continue to require benzodiazepine medication, despite the most brilliant testing, diagnosis and treatment of other possible anxiety causes.

Read this book to learn how freedom from opiate dependency can be obtained. I agree with Dr. Schaller, that Suboxone is the best drug that almost no one has heard of.

Subutex is essentially Suboxone without Naloxone. Subutex is available generically, is less likely to cause allergic reactions than Suboxone and can save uninsured patients money.

Steven Sponaugle

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Suboxone: Take Back Your Life! A must read., May 8, 2006

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L. Whiteman "Pa Psychologist" (Phila, PA) - See all my reviews
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Dr. James Schaller has provided the first of it's kind book on a brand new treatment for opiate users. This fine resource is a "must have" for those who want to learn how to over come their addiction, or for the loved ones who want to help them. I would highly recommend this book.