As it stands right now there are restrictions on medically-assisted treatment for opiate addiction. Doctors who prescribe Suboxone and similar drugs are limited to a certain number of patients. There is legislation, though, presented by Sen. Edward Markey and Sen. Rand Paul to loosen these restrictions. Because heroin use is…
What I’m seeing with Suboxone and other opiate withdrawal medications is both encouraging and worrisome. Suboxone is certainly a great drug to medically treat opiate addiction, but Suboxone is so effective with withdrawal it gives the false impression that addiction is solved by simply taking the medicine. Recovery from…
Heroin deaths quadrupled between 2010 and 2013. The greatest increase has been since 2010. Still, prescribed painkillers cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. Opiate addiction is not subsiding — it’s increasing. While most people think of heroin as something used by street people, it’s used…
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” ― Carrie Jones, Need Addiction is a loss of freedom. Being chained to a drug is more than a metaphor — the chains of addiction are palpable to the person dependent on a…
If a physician has received training in addiction medicine, it’ll be easy for the doctor to speak with a patient concerning opioid addiction. Some medical professionals, though, find it difficult to talk about opiate addiction as medical concern because of the stigma and the perceived insult. Talking about…
We’ve written about opiates and how they act in the brain, and we’ve written about mixing opiates with benzodiazepines — this is about opiate addiction treatment, withdrawals and long term recovery. Opiate withdrawal won’t likely kill you, but it might make death seem easier. After…
There has been much controversy regarding using drugs to treat drug addiction. As always, there’s a common sense treatment approach and then there are those who prescribe drugs with no treatment plan. This is from Social Work Today: Specialized medications to treat substance abuse…
One of the things I want to do on this blog is publish recovery stories. There has been much written about the problem of opiate addiction, but not enough written about recovery from opiate addiction. It doesn’t matter if the opiate is heroin or…
Addiction and Recovery Sources: This page is filled with links to educational addiction and recovery resources dealing with addiction, addiction treatment, recovery from addiction, specific medical information regarding alcoholism, drug addiction, Suboxone management, and other information pertinent to addiction treatment. A large part of recovery from addiction is…
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