Additionally, medications like methadone or buprenorphine may be given to patients during the treatment process.
Although there is currently an injectable treatment available, the Food and Drug Administration is investigating making buprenorphine into a tablet to be taken orally.
Another drug that has been approved for treating heroin addiction is buprenorphine.
Buprenorphine is also used to treat opioid addiction.
Lactation studies in rats have shown that buprenorphine may inhibit lactation studies in rats have shown that buprenorphine may inhibit lactation.
Some of the medications drug rehab programs can treat opioid addiction include methodone, LAAM (levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol), naltrexone, naloxone, and buprenorphine.
Some physicians will prescribe buprenorphine which is a different type of opioid.
These could include alternative forms of injectable opioid maintenance using longer-acting agonists such as methadone and partial agonists such as buprenorphine.