Accelerated Detox Medically Supervised Detox Ultra-Rapid Detox Buprenex Suboxone

Questions & Answers

1. What is Buprenex?
   Buprenex (Buprenorphine, Suboxone, Subutex) is an addictive narcotic drug that was first introduced as an injectable painkiller. Dr. Coleman actually had experience with it over 20 years ago in New Zealand where it was released as a painkiller and quickly became abused as another street drug.

2. Buprenex is a partial agonist and a partial antagonist. What does this mean?
   Buprenex both stimulates the opiate receptors of the brain producing pain relief and a narcotic high, and at the same time, blocks the receptors, especially at higher doses. Although no-one quite understands how it does this, having agonist and antagonist properties allows for a more comfortable detox.

3. What are the properties of Buprenex that make it useful?
   Buprenex has partial agonist and partial antagonist actions and also a very long duration. These properties make it a useful drug in some circumstances. Firstly, it is hard to overdose on it because the antagonist quality kicks in at higher doses. Secondly, Buprenex does not produce as much of a high as heroin; however, it is nonetheless very addictive. Thirdly, because of these properties, it seems to taper itself fairly well meaning it is easier to detox off than a drug like methadone. Due to these properties, the government has approved Buprenex under the trade names Subutex and Suboxone, to be prescribed by specially trained MDs as both a detoxification drug and a maintenance drug.

4. Why do you not use Buprenex in your Accelerated detox method?
   The Coleman Institute used Buprenex for about 15 months and found it somewhat useful but it still produced quite a lot of withdrawal symptoms after the detox was over. We found that Ultram worked just as well during the days of preparation and when we completed the detox, patients felt better and reported less post acute withdrawal symptoms after the detox was over. Furthermore, detoxing with Burprenex takes 7-10 days whereas our Accelerated Detox Technique (ADT) (link) takes only 3 days.

5. Why do you not use Buprenex on an outpatient basis?
   Our doctors have over 10 years experience using Buprenex on an outpatient basis. It is a good drug and some people are able to detox themselves with it. However we have found that it takes over 7 days, and while people feel good on the Buprenex (because it is a narcotic), they usually start using again as soon as the Buprenex is finished. Therefore, they didn’t really detox at all. We have performed many Accelerated detoxes (link) for patients who have seen other doctors first and failed multiple attempts at Buprenex detoxes. With the ADT, it is over in 3 days and is 99% successful.