A Guide for Patients Beginning Suboxone Treatment at Home

Start Suboxone treatment, and taking control of your life is a courageous decision. While the path to breaking addiction has its challenges, the result is well worth it.

If you are taking the first step away from opioid addiction, starting Suboxone treatment can be incredibly effective in this process. Read on to learn about the first day of starting Suboxone treatment and how to prepare for it.

It should be at least …

24-48 hours since you used heroin/fentanyl

12 hours since snorted pain pills (Oxycontin)

16 hours since you swallowed pain pills

36-96 hours since you used methadone

You should feel at least three of these symptoms …

Restlessness
Yawning
Enlarged pupils
Runny nose
Body aches
Tremors/twitching
Chills or sweating
Anxious or irritable
Goose pimples
Stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea

Before you begin you want to feel very sick from your withdrawal symptoms. If not you will have precipitated withdrawal.

If you are using the sublingual film:

Drink water before taking this medicine to help moisten your mouth.
Place the film under the tongue until it is dissolved.
If you need to take an additional film, place the new film on the opposite side from the first film.
Do not eat or drink anything until the film is completely dissolved.
Do not cut, chew, swallow, or move the film after placing it under the tongue.

If you are using the sublingual tablet:

Do not cut, crush, chew, or swallow it.
Place the tablet under the tongue until it is dissolved.
If you take 2 or more tablets at a time, place all of the tablets in different places under the tongue at the same time.
If this is uncomfortable, place 2 tablets at a time under the tongue and repeat the process until all the tablets have been taken.
Do not eat or drink anything until the tablets are completely dissolved.

Person holding a buprenorphine/naloxone tablet

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