Trying to stop opioids on willpower alone is hard. Withdrawal and cravings pull people back to pills, heroin, or fentanyl, often while they’re still trying to show up for work and family.
Suboxone can ease that pull. At our addiction treatment center near Scottdale, we start with a medical assessment to see whether it’s right for you. When it is, we pair the medication with counseling and, if you need it, treatment for anxiety, depression, or other mental health conditions.
Suboxone combines buprenorphine and naloxone. Buprenorphine partly activates the brain’s opioid receptors, which can reduce cravings and withdrawal without the full effect of drugs like heroin or fentanyl. It treats opioid use disorder, from illegal opioids to prescription painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. Suboxone can still slow breathing, especially if it’s combined with alcohol, benzodiazepines, or other sedatives, so tell your provider about everything you take.
It doesn’t treat alcohol, benzodiazepine, or stimulant use on its own, but our drug and alcohol rehabilitation center can treat those in the same plan. RestAura provides office-based opioid treatment, which means you get your prescription and follow-up through our outpatient program rather than a daily clinic visit.
From most of Scottdale, the trip to our Lawrenceville Highway office takes 5 to 10 minutes outside rush hour. From Lantern Ridge, we are about 7 to 10 minutes away.
Timing matters at the start. Taking the first dose too soon after other opioids can set off precipitated withdrawal, a sudden and intense withdrawal. Our providers ask about your recent use and current withdrawal symptoms to decide when to begin.
Tell your provider about any other medications you take and whether you use alcohol or benzodiazepines, such as Xanax. Mixing these with buprenorphine can slow breathing and increase the risk of overdose. Follow your provider’s instructions rather than deciding when to start on your own.
Once you start, we check how your body responds: cravings, withdrawal, side effects, and how you’re feeling day to day. Doses are adjusted from there until you’re stable. If you’re already taking Suboxone from another provider, we review how it’s working and fit it into your care.
Medication steadies the physical side of opioid use. Counseling works on the rest: what triggers use, how to handle stress, and how to rebuild routines. That might mean planning what to do when an urge hits after work or practicing how to say no when someone offers you pills.
You can receive Suboxone alongside our partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient program, or outpatient program, and your prescriber and therapist work from one plan.
If Suboxone isn’t the right medication for you, our providers may consider another option, such as naltrexone, or a different approach.
Fentanyl and similar synthetic opioids are in much of the street drug supply. They were involved in about half of Georgia’s overdose deaths in 2024 and 2025, by CDC provisional counts. In DeKalb County, 157 residents died of drug overdoses in 2024 and 113 in 2025, according to CDC provisional counts.
Keep naloxone (Narcan) at home if anyone in your household uses opioids. In Georgia, naloxone is sold over the counter without a prescription.
In Scottdale, call PCI Pharmacy at 3500 North Decatur Road, Suite 108, at (404) 549-8447 to ask whether it carries naloxone nasal spray. Another option is Walgreens at 585 DeKalb Industrial Way in nearby Decatur. Walgreens sells Narcan without a prescription, but call the store at (404) 292-8878 to check before you go.
If someone won’t wake up or is barely breathing, call 911 and give naloxone.
2450 Lawrenceville Hwy Ste 102, Decatur, GA 30033
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RestAura doesn’t offer methadone. Methadone for ongoing opioid use disorder treatment is dispensed through licensed opioid treatment programs. With Suboxone, you aren’t tied to a daily dosing line, and your care stays inside the same outpatient program where you get counseling. If your assessment shows methadone would suit you better, we’ll tell you.
Some days, it helps to talk with someone who knows what you’re going through. These groups give you support outside treatment, whether you join from home or find a meeting nearby.
These groups add to your care. Medication questions and dose changes stay with your prescriber.
From East Ponce de Leon Avenue near North Clarendon Avenue, it’s about 2 miles north by Valley Brook Road, around 5 minutes.
The drive is about 2.0 miles.
There’s no fixed end date. Some people take Suboxone for months, others for years. Decisions about continuing, adjusting, or slowly tapering are made with your prescriber, based on how stable you are. Stopping suddenly can bring back withdrawal and cravings, so talk with your provider first.
Many people work and drive once their dose is stable. In the first days, or after a dose change, some people feel drowsy, so don’t drive until you’re sure about how the medication affects you. If your job has safety rules about medication, we can talk through them with you privately.
Precipitated withdrawal is a sudden, severe withdrawal that can happen when buprenorphine is taken while other opioids are still active in your body. Your provider avoids it by waiting for clear signs of moderate withdrawal before the first dose. With fentanyl, that wait can be longer and less predictable, so tell your provider exactly what you’ve used and when.
No. Suboxone is an FDA-approved medicine that controls cravings and withdrawal without producing the full high of drugs like heroin or fentanyl. We monitor its safety and effectiveness as part of treatment.
Yes. A return to opioid use doesn’t rule out Suboxone. We look at what you’re using now, your past treatment, and what led to the return to use before recommending next steps.
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