You are looking for a Suboxone doctor by telemedicine, and chances are you are tired. Tired of crowded waiting rooms, tired of starting your story over with a stranger, tired of visits that end before they begin.
Maybe you have made the long drive across town for a seven-minute appointment. Maybe you have stood at a counter feeling like a case number with a pulse.
There is a difference between being treated and being processed. You deserve to be treated.
Dr. Leeds offers medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenorphine through a concierge telemedicine practice: one physician, real time, direct access, and a plan built around your goals.
What is medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine?
Buprenorphine is the medication inside Suboxone and ZubSolv. Taken as prescribed, it relieves withdrawal symptoms and cravings and steadies the nervous system, so daily life stops revolving around the next dose of an opioid.
Medication-assisted treatment pairs that medication with ongoing physician care. The medication quiets the storm. The physician helps you rebuild what the storm interrupted.
Why is MAT the gold standard for opioid dependence?
MAT is the gold standard treatment for opioid dependence because it treats the condition as what it is: a medical condition. Willpower alone is a poor treatment for a medical condition. Nobody asks a person with diabetes to will their blood sugar down.
This is harm reduction in its truest form. Treatment that keeps you alive, stable, working, and connected to the people you love is not a shortcut or a crutch. It is medicine doing its job.
The approach that gets praised the most, quitting cold turkey, is the one that causes the most harm. Abrupt cessation punishes the body, and that suffering is not a lesson anyone deserves. Medical treatment that prevents it is not the easy way out. It is the right way out.
Physical dependence is a medical condition, not a moral failing
Many people develop opioid dependence through prescribed opioid treatment for chronic pain. They took their medication as directed, and their body adapted, exactly as bodies do.
Physical dependence is not addiction. Dependence means the body has adjusted to a medication and reacts when it is reduced or stopped. Addiction adds a pattern of compulsive use that takes over a person’s life. A person can have one, the other, or both.
Either way, the answer is the same: medical care delivered with dignity. Addiction is not a lack of willpower or common sense, and people with addictions deserve to be treated as intelligent partners in their own care.
Maintenance or gradual tapering: whose goal counts?
Yours. Some patients want long-term maintenance because stability is what lets them live fully. Others want to taper down slowly once life feels solid again. Both are legitimate goals, and Dr. Leeds respects whichever one is yours.
Dosing is individualized. The right buprenorphine dose is like a pair of prescription glasses: it is measured for your eyes, not for the last patient who sat in the chair.
If chronic pain is part of your story, that history is respected too. Coming to buprenorphine after years of prescribed pain medication is common, and it shapes how a thoughtful physician plans your care.
There are no forced timelines and no pressure to rush toward zero. Recovery is not a race to zero.
What does care with a Suboxone doctor by telemedicine look like?
Plenty of services can connect you with an online Suboxone doctor. Very few give you the same physician every week, with enough time to actually know you. That is the difference the concierge model makes.
Appointments with Dr. Leeds are weekly, by video or audio, and can run up to an hour. That is time to think together about your dose, your sleep, your work, and your life, not a med check with your hand on the doorknob.
Between visits, you have 24/7 text access to Dr. Leeds for urgent questions. Not an answering service, not a portal ticket. Your physician.
Every appointment is with Dr. Leeds himself. There are no substitute providers, no coaches, no handoffs, and no group meetings. Buprenorphine telemedicine care happens privately, from your own home, and coaching is woven in to help you reconnect with the activities that make life feel worth living.
If you are still weighing your options, here is how to find a Suboxone prescriber online and what separates direct physician care from a scripts-only service.
How to begin
Start with the contact form on drleeds.com. Follow-up may happen by email or phone, and an initial consultation is preferred before medical treatment begins.
Dr. Leeds prescribes buprenorphine and provides medical management for patients located in Florida. Consultations are paid sessions, available anywhere by video or audio, and they do not establish a physician-patient relationship.
Frequently asked questions
Can a Suboxone doctor by telemedicine treat you outside Florida?
Dr. Leeds provides prescribing and medical management only for patients located in Florida. If you live elsewhere, a consultation is still available: consultations are paid sessions offered anywhere, and they do not establish a physician-patient relationship.
What happens during a weekly telemedicine appointment with Dr. Leeds?
You meet by video or audio for up to an hour. Appointments cover how your dose is working, how life is going, and what needs adjusting, and they include coaching to support the parts of recovery that medication alone cannot reach.
Does Dr. Leeds prescribe ZubSolv as well as Suboxone by telemedicine?
Yes. Dr. Leeds prescribes buprenorphine products including Suboxone and ZubSolv, chosen and dosed individually based on what fits each patient best.
Can you stay on Suboxone maintenance with a telemedicine doctor, or is tapering required?
Maintenance is a fully respected goal in this practice. Nothing is forced. Patients who want to taper do so gradually, at their own pace, and patients who want stability stay stable.
What does 24/7 text access mean in a telemedicine Suboxone practice?
It means you can text Dr. Leeds directly with urgent questions between appointments, day or night. It is real physician availability, not an answering service.
About the physician
Mark Leeds, D.O. is an osteopathic physician providing concierge telemedicine care focused on benzodiazepine and z-drug tapering, psychiatric medication deprescribing, opioid dependence treatment, and alcohol use disorder. Dr. Leeds works directly with each patient, with weekly appointments and 24/7 text access between visits. He serves on the medical advisory board of the Benzodiazepine Information Coalition and hosts The Rehab Podcast on the Mental Health News Radio Network. Medical management is available for patients in Florida; consultations are available more broadly.