Jeffrey Stuckert
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Drug and Alcohol Addiction Expert
Jeffrey Stuckert Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Medicine, Addiction
- Career Focus
- Medical Director
- Affiliation
- Northland - Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Dr. Jeffrey Stuckert, M.D. is an American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) certified physician and has practiced clinical emergency medicine in Ohio for 29 years. He has practiced addiction medicine on a full time basis for the last year, and currently serves as the Medical Director of Northland, an outpatient rehab clinic near Cincinnati. Dr. Stuckert has served as Chairman and Medical Director of Emergency Medicine Departments of both the Christ Hospital and Deaconess Hospital for 22 of his 29 years, and has personally attended to more than 70,000 emergency-room patients. During his time as Medical Director, he supervised all clinical personnel and administrative operations of those divisions. This includes the supervision of over 100 emergency physicians, more than 100 emergency medicine residents and hundreds of nurses and ancillary staff. For more information about Northland, please visit www.northlandmbs.com.
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How is Suboxone Treatment Different tha Drug Abuse?
Physicians who treat opioid addiction also have the option of utilizing 'medication-assisted treatment', and the most common medications used in the treatment of opioid dependence today are methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine (Suboxone).
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What is Opioid Addiction?
To first understand opioid addiction, you must first understand what opioids are. The term opioid refers to any drug or chemical that attaches (like a key fits into a lock) to sites in the brain called opioid receptors. The human body makes its own opioids (called endorphins) but the opioids we are conce ed with when we talk about opioid addiction are those that are manufactured in a laboratory or made by plants. For instance, morphine and codeine are found in the extract (the opium) of seeds from the poppy plant, and this opium is processed into heroin.
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Opioid Dependence and Withdrawal
A person is said to have physical opioid dependence if they have high 'tolerance' of opioids, meaning they need more of the opioid to get the desired effect. Opioid withdrawal symptoms occur when the substance is stopped. Most patients who seek treatment for opioid addiction also have some degree of physical dependence. However, physical opioid dependence alone is not sufficient to make a diagnosis of addiction. A person can be physically dependent - like a cancer patient might be when prescribed opioids for severe pain - and not be addicted.
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