In the last decade opiate use has risen significantly. Overdoses and deaths from opiate use are increasing at a frightening rate. Whether it’s opiates like heroin or morphine or synthetic opioids like Percocet or Oxycodone, there’s no difference when considering the consequences of addiction and misuse and possible solutions. When a person develops…
I would like to think that whoever becomes our next President will have a good understanding of our nation’s problem with addiction, but I haven’t heard much at all about the subject from the candidates — they appear to have lots of other things on…
The good news in the midst of the heroin epidemic is that treating heroin addiction is possible and recovery is likely if a comprehensive treatment plan is followed long term. There are many recovering heroin addicts in Narcotics Anonymous who’ve been drug free for decades….
It’s difficult to find fundamental solutions when a problem is misunderstood as symptomatic of something else – the application of symptomatic solutions to perceived symptomatic problems leads in circles with no real resolution. Heroin, though it’s been around since at least 3400 BC, is…
Concern for the expanding heroin epidemic grows as more people become addicted and seek treatment. As of now only 11% percent of those in need of treatment seek treatment, yet there are still waiting lists at federally-funded rehab facilities. According to the article linked above,…
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