Medication Assisted Therapy

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) - What is it?

MAT is a combination of medication(s) that treat addiction and therapies including individual and/or group counseling. When used in combination, MAT patients are better able to meet their goals in life and health. Prairie Ridge offers all options available for MAT with patient-centered decision making and care.

 

MAT Treatment Has Been Shown to:

  • Lower your risk of relapse.
  • Improve well-being.
  • Increase your ability to fulfill goals, such as maintaining a job.
  • Improve birth outcomes among women who have substance use disorders and are pregnant.
  • Decrease the risk of getting HIV or hepatitis C, protecting both yourself and others.

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How to Get Started:

Call 641-424-2391 to get in touch with a member of our clinical staff.

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Medications:

There are three medications approved to treat addiction, and Prairie Ridge offers patients a choice in the medication that will best meet their needs and help them to achieve their goals.

A partial opioid agonist available through our outpatient behavioral health practitioners.

  • Treats opioid use disorder.
  • Decreases opioid overdose death rates by 50%.
  • Helps with cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
  • Safe and effective when used as prescribed.
  • Safe for use during pregnancy.
  • May cause constipation, sweating, hypogonadism, and headaches.
  • Available in tablets, films, and/or monthly injections.

A full opioid agonist only available through our Opioid Treatment Program (OTP).

  • Treats opioid use disorder.
  • Can be more effective in those using fetanyl.
  • Decreases opioid overdose dealth rates by 50%.
  • Stops cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
  • Safe and effective when used as prescribed.
  • Safe for use during pregnancy.
  • Requires daily dosing for a period of time with some take-home dosing available as well.
  • Closely monitored.
  • May cause constipation, sweating, hypogonadism, QTc prolongation, drug interactions, and respiratory depression.
  • Available in liquid form only.

Full opioid antagonist. Available in our outpatient behavioral health practitioners. 

  • Used to treat opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder.
  • Helps with cravings.
  • Safe and effective when taken as prescribed.
  • Blocks analegesic effects of opioids, liver enzyme elevation, and reduces opioid tolerance.
  • Available in tablets and/or monthly injections.