JeffreyStuckert

Jeffrey Stuckert, M.D. has practiced clinical emergency medicine in Ohio for 29 years and is an American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) certified physician. He has personally attended to more than 70,000 emergency-room patients, and currently serves as the Medical Director of Northland, an outpatient drug rehab center near Cincinnati. Dr. Stuckert has practiced addiction medicine on a full time basis for the last year. He 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, supervising 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 <url removed>.

Hometown: Milford, OH United States

Occupation: Medical Director, Northland

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How is Suboxone Treatment Different than Drug Abuse?

How is Suboxone Treatment Different than 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). M...

Opioid Dependence and Withdrawal

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 opioi...

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 a...

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