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Fentanyl is a synthetic pain reliever in the opioid family, within the class of prescription opioids. It is highly addictive. Today, we are in the midst of a fentanyl epidemic and unprecedented levels of opioid use disorder.
You are not alone in your struggle with fentanyl addiction, whether the addiction is your own or that of a loved one.
You’ve come to the right place. We want to help.
Premiere Recovery Center is a reputable element of a vast network of recovery providers in the Portland area. We are well-known and well-respected. As part of this vast network, our mission is to ensure the most optimal recovery journeys for substance abuse treatment and opioid use disorder for everyone we can.
The recovery journey involves multiple stages and varied treatment options for substance use disorder, and we ensure you or your loved one gets to the right place for your specific needs at every stage along the way. We will also help you figure out your insurance benefits if you like. We want to help in any way that we can. Give us a call today and let’s discuss the drug addiction treatment options available to you in your own personal situation. All fentanyl addiction treatment centers we work with use evidence-based techniques to treat opioid use disorder, substance use disorder more generally, and any accompanying mental health considerations. You are in the most caring, compassionate, and capable hands.
Please let us help. We will give you all of the information you need to help you navigate your varied options for fentanyl addiction treatment as smoothly as possible, and get on the road to recovery.
Fentanyl is an opioid drug. It binds to the brain’s opioid receptors, areas that control pain and emotions. The brain adapts to the drug with continued use, reducing the brain’s sensitivity to fentanyl. This both elevates tolerance for the drug and makes it difficult to experience pleasure from anything other than the drug, increasing cravings for drug use. For addicted individuals, seeking and using fentanyl take over their lives.
This destroys relationships, families, health, careers, finances, homes, and everything else until the individual recovers from the opioid addiction.
We want to help. We have seen too many individuals, particularly promising young people in our area from good families and with great potential, enslaved to this drug.
We have seen too many families in our community lose young loved ones. Our communities are burdened with the vast weight of this problem. And we are in a position to help. Please let us.
Fentanyl has been used in hospitals for severe pain and chronic pain since about 1960. This synthetic opioid is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
Given its potency, fentanyl drug abuse, drug addiction, and risk of overdose are high. Even a tiny amount of fentanyl can lead to an overdose death in individuals without a high tolerance.
In 2014, America’s Drug Enforcement Agency raised alarm about illicit supplies of fentanyl hitting the streets. Today, a decade later, this drug is responsible for 70% of yearly overdose deaths, at 75,000 a year.The drug does not discriminate among social classes, with individuals from the most affluent areas struggling against this opioid overdose syndrome just as individuals from the least affluent areas.
More Americans die from fentanyl overdose every 14 months than were killed in all of our wars collectively since World War II.
People aged 26-39 have the highest rates of lethal fentanyl overdose. We are in a fight against the deadliest narcotic in U.S. history, and we are currently experiencing the most lethal phase yet of an opioid epidemic that began its rise in the late 1990s.
Signs of fentanyl overdose include:
In this instance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests administering naloxone if available, after calling 911.
Fentanyl is cheap and easy to produce in large quantities. Nearly all forms of illegal street drugs and counterfeit pills contain some fentanyl. Drug traffickers add fentanyl to their supply to reduce costs, enhance another drug’s effects, and/or increase the drug’s addictiveness.
Drugs with fentanyl have varied and high potency and therefore can be more dangerous than perceived, particularly for youths experimenting with drugs or pills. Dabbling with other drugs which unknowingly contain fentanyl can spur the fentanyl addiction within individuals and lead to fentanyl abuse.
Fentanyl puts the user in a euphoric state. Symptoms of fentanyl use include relaxation, pain relief, euphoria, and extreme happiness. Less desirable effects of fentanyl may include sedation, confusion, dizziness, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, constipation, respiratory depression, urinary retention, and pupillary constriction. Other opioids cause similar effects: morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone, methadone, and heroin.
Fentanyl comes in multiple delivery formats. As a prescription drug, it is administered as a shot, a skin patch, or lozenges sucked like cough drops. On the street, pharmacological fentanyl patches are disassembled, the gel contents removed then injected or ingested. These patches are also frozen, cut into pieces, then placed under the tongue or in the cheek cavity.
Fentanyl is also produced illicitly and available as powder, drops on blotter paper, in eye droppers and nasal sprays, and produced into pills resembling other prescription opioids, explains the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Fentanyl is sold alone or in combination with heroin and other substances such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA because it takes very little fentanyl to produce an intoxicating high, making it a cheaper option than the substances they are actually selling. Fentanyl has been found in counterfeit pills that mimic pharmaceuticals such as oxycodone. Users can snort/sniff; smoke; take orally by pill; use a spiked blotter paper, eye drops or nasal spray; or inject the drug.
Common street names for fentanyl include: Apache, China Girl, China Town, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfellas, Great Bear, H-Man, Jackpot, King Ivory, Murder 8, and Tango & Cash.
If you or a loved one is afflicted with an addiction to fentanyl, let us help. Our caring and compassionate clinicians and staff are dedicated to helping individuals recover from fentanyl addiction and live robust, clean, healthy, productive lives.
Wherever you are on the recovery journey, and especially if you haven’t started it yet, give us a call. We want to help. Fentanyl is destroying our communities and taking the lives of too many promising young people in our area. We are committed to helping individuals get out of this addiction lifestyle and into an existence of health, wealth, and vibrance.
The treatment for fentanyl addiction comes in stages. Fentanyl withdrawal is not to be taken lightly and will require oversight by a healthcare professional.
The first stage in fentanyl addiction treatment is detoxification, where the user experiences severe early symptoms of fentanyl withdrawal. Because fentanyl binds to the brain, individuals can’t just stop using it without dire consequences. Opioid detox really needs to be conducted in a professional detox facility with medical professionals on staff to manage the detox process.
Even a few hours after having taken the last drug, withdrawal symptoms can set in. Opioid withdrawal symptoms can include:
These symptoms can be extremely uncomfortable and in severe cases, even life-threatening. This intense detox is one major reason individuals find it so difficult to stop taking fentanyl.
Detox can be conducted in an inpatient or intensive outpatient facility. That decision will depend largely on the condition of the addicted individual and anticipated severity of the detox process. Give us a call and we will figure out your situation together.
Following detox, a rehab program will need to be attended to treat the opioid use disorder. Patients may be admitted to an inpatient treatment facility or an intensive outpatient program, depending on a variety of factors. When patients are assessed at requiring levels of care 3 and above, they need to be in residential/inpatient treatment facilities. When patients are ambulatory and assessed at levels of care 2.5 or 2.1, an intensive outpatient fentanyl addiction treatment program will be perfect.
Substance use disorder is often accompanied by mental health challenges of some kind. Unresolved PTSD is common, as we all experience trauma and don’t always have opportunities to completely heal from those experiences, so they continue to wreak havoc in our lives by manifesting in unexpected ways. An addiction to fentanyl is one way PTSD manifests. Other mental health challenges may surface during treatment, which is also very common. Professional treatment centers treat any co-occurring mental health challenges along with the substance use disorder.
On-site in our treatment center in Happy Valley, Clackamas County, Oregon, we treat individuals struggling with substance use disorders and any co-occurring mental health challenges. We are an intensive outpatient facility, treating patients of all ages at levels of care 2.1 (9-20 weekly treatment hours) and 2.5 (20+ weekly hours) with all substance use disorders including opioid use disorder and fentanyl addiction.
Our intensive outpatient model proudly replaces the traditional residential treatment center model in several ways. Our patients don’t have to completely disrupt their lives to come to treatment – they can continue to work, go to school, live in their homes and go about their business.
We offer scheduling flexibility as reasonable and possible to allow for minimal disruption to our patients’ professional lives during treatment, increasing patient confidentiality and making treatment easier. Also, the transition back to life post-treatment is smoother and easier, as the individuals have not left their own environments and those environments have adapted alongside the individuals. This improves chances for long-term clean-and-sober success.
We offer a holistic approach to fentanyl recovery, using various techniques. For fentanyl addiction treatment, we always include medication-assisted treatment, involving buprenorphine, naltrexone and naloxone, as appropriate to the patient. We also use approaches within the paradigm of cognitive-behavioral therapy, which is a talking therapy that focuses on changing thoughts (“cognition”) to change behavior.
Most fentanyl addiction patients are young people. They need family support. We work with families to teach them how to best help the addicted family member to get and stay clean from fentanyl use
We understand that in some instances and for a variety of reasons, it’s better for the patient’s well-being during treatment to not stay in their own home. We offer luxurious homes for these patients to reside in during treatment, if they so choose.
Our homes are located in Pleasant Valley (women) and Happy Valley (men). They are massive, spacious, upscale, quiet, private, clean-and-sober homes with every conceivable amenity to ensure your comfort and help ease the challenges of a fentanyl recovery program.
We are affiliated with Premiere Sober Living, a transitional housing facility. Some patients benefit from living in clean-and-sober environments during and after treatment.
We’re located just off of SE 82nd Avenue near the junction of I-205. We proudly serve residents of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties, as well as our neighbors further out, with high-quality intensive fentanyl addiction treatment.
If our program is the right fit for you at this time, wonderful. And if not, that is perfectly fine, too. Call us and we will help you find whichever program is just right for your situation, right now.
Don’t delay.
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