What happens to people in a methadone maintenance program, but have no place to live where they can work to rebuild a healthier life? Many people come from environments rife with violence. Many have lived in a home where one or more other family members are still doing drugs, and they can’t go back to […]
Mar 17, 2016
Most people are relieved to know that when they participate in medication-assisted treatment (MAT), their privacy is protected by strict federal guidelines. People who work in substance abuse treatment centers work with regulations that are stricter than the ones that protect your regular medical records. The guidelines that protect you in medication-assisted treatment are always […]
Mar 11, 2016
SAMHSA’s Advisory issued in early March 2016 provided substance abuse treatment professionals with a few new recommendations regarding buprenorphine treatment for opiate dependence. Your choice of either Zubsolv or Suboxone may be the biggest result of the Advisory. The Sublingual and Transmucosal Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder: Review and Update, brings exciting new information to […]
Mar 10, 2016
If you’re dealing with the disease of addiction, you may be frustrated by your family’s certainty that you are willfully taking drugs and putting yourself at risk. They don’t understand the nature of addiction and, to be honest, you don’t really know much about it yourself. How can it be a medical condition when it […]
Mar 07, 2016
Every generation has its own celebrities whose deaths are mourned because they were the bright and shining stars of that generation’s collective firmament. Heroin use destroys many people, and more than a few of them are among the celebrated famous. They stand out to us because they captivated our imaginations, and our hearts, with their […]
Mar 04, 2016
It’s not that drug courts don’t try to help people. They do try, and they help many people. But considering the numbers of people who die despite taking advantage of addiction treatment in Georgia, the drug court there isn’t doing much. Elaine Pawlowski blogging for The Huffington Post isn’t writing specifically about addiction treatment in […]
Mar 03, 2016
One of the biggest challenges facing the doctors and other prescribers who order prescription opiates for their patients in pain is choosing the right dose. Despite heightened awareness of the dangers of prescription pain pills, many doctors continue to write for them because they simply don’t want their patients to go about in pain. The […]
Feb 29, 2016
People who fall victim to prescription drug use blame themselves for the struggles that addiction brings to their lives. For many people, their susceptibility to prescription drug use goes back to their growing years. Substance abuse treatment professionals are learning more and more about the effects of adverse childhood experiences on the potential to develop […]
Feb 25, 2016
What should you do if you are referred to a program that offers a three-day Suboxone detox? Many hospitals and clinics around the country accept patients who are referred to them for detox from certain drugs or alcohol and they provide a limited three-day detox from Suboxone. Some doctors frown on the three-day detox, but […]
Feb 24, 2016
It’s always gratifying when a chain of stores sticks its neck out to offer a genuine community service to its customers. This time it’s Walgreens, the happy and healthy neighborhood pharmacy stores. Its managers are supporting naloxone programs for drug addiction rehabilitation in California, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Maryland, and 34 other states, plus the District […]
Feb 19, 2016
With the New Year upon us we have available to us some new figures on prescription drug abuse and heroin addiction. The Centers for Disease Control reports an all-time new high—no pun intended—of overdoses from prescription drug abuse in the United States in 2014. 47,055 to be exact. In light of these startling statistics, some […]
Feb 16, 2016
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has published the results of a study linking opiate prescriptions written for teens with a subsequent adolescent opiate addiction problem. The study was undertaken by researchers at the University of Michigan, and results of the study were funded by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published in the […]
Feb 15, 2016
We keep hearing about the opiate epidemic throughout this country, and we wonder how it’s possible to battle such a behemoth monster. Substance abuse treatment professionals who work in opiate recovery centers are excited to report that in February 2016 the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). […]
Feb 12, 2016
Getting Suboxone treatment in Georgia to battle your opiate addiction makes more sense the more you learn about it. Suboxone is approved by the FDA for use in treating addiction to prescription pain pills, heroin, and other opiates. It’s also possible to live life with a little more breathing space, because once you’ve been successfully […]
Feb 09, 2016
When someone like Dr. Marvin D. Seppala speaks up about addiction treatment, people listen. Living in a world in which the possibilities of success with Suboxone programs are questioned, it’s refreshing and promising to hear that Dr. Seppala, who once promoted only abstinence-based therapies, now gives his full support to the benefits of Suboxone or […]
Feb 08, 2016
Do you know what NIMBY stands for? It’s the acronym for a phrase that residents of a community use when they don’t want something to be built or operated near their homes: Not In My Back Yard! That phrase describes perfectly the way most people feel about having methadone treatment programs opened in their neighborhoods. […]
Feb 05, 2016
Most people swear they would do anything to protect their children. Mothers promise to fight like tigers against anyone who means harm to their little ones. Fathers vow that nobody who hurts their children will live to tell about it. Yet increasing numbers of formerly protective parents are putting their own children into foster care […]
Feb 02, 2016
The substance abuse professionals who supervise Suboxone therapy understand that the family members and significant others of persons with opiate addiction have many questions about treatment with Suboxone. Families wonder if Suboxone therapy is well regulated, and whether buprenorphine, the generic medication in Suboxone and Subutex, represents a good treatment option for their loved one. […]
Feb 01, 2016
When will we get opioid addiction under control? How can you have any hope for recovery? All we’ve heard for years now is that the number of people addicted to pain pills and heroin has grown to epidemic proportion. Reports continue to show how many more people are dying from opioid addiction today compared to […]
Jan 29, 2016
If you know anything about opiate addiction, then you know that heroin and prescription pain pills are among the most addictive substances on the planet. As soon as you disengage from treatment, the urges and cravings overwhelm you once again and send you toppling into relapse. That’s why outpatient drug treatment takes such a long […]
Jan 27, 2016
According to Mary Sell Montgomery writing for Addiction Pro online journal, opiate abuse in Alabama has skyrocketed over the past several years. Just a few years ago, according to drug enforcement officials throughout several Alabama counties, they never came across heroin. Then the rate of death by opiates leapt to more than 100 in Jefferson […]
Jan 26, 2016
The insurance companies just don’t care that people can get help for opioid addiction through opioid drug treatment programs that utilize medications such as methadoneor buprenorphine in conjunction with counseling and other therapies. It doesn’t matter to them that prescription pain killers and heroin account for 61 percent of all overdose deaths in the country. […]
Jan 22, 2016
Why do you have to go to a treatment center in order to stop abusing your drug of choice? You’ve asked yourself that, and no doubt there are members of your family who have asked you that same question. Opiate addiction recovery is no easy thing, and it takes a well-considered plan in order to […]
Jan 20, 2016
While in active addiction, you punish your body and mind to a much greater extent than you realize, particularly when your drug of choice is an opiate. Once you have made the courageous decision to enter an opiate drug addiction recovery program, there are resources readily available to treat the addiction and its underlying causes. […]
Jan 19, 2016
You start out with a prescription for pain medication and then you wonder why you can’t stop taking it. Are you still in pain, or have you become addicted? Maybe you need methadone or Suboxone treatment for addiction. How can you know for sure when your need for pain management ends and substance abuse takes […]
Jan 13, 2016
There are many people who walk down the road toward opiate dependence accompanied by a surprising companion: their significant other. Actually, it should come as no surprise that many people share addiction issues with a partner, because it’s human nature to associate with people who have social habits similar to ours. So if you like […]
Jan 12, 2016
Everyone agrees, with the continuing increase in opioid overdose deaths, that access to Suboxone doctors must become easier. There’s no reason why someone should struggle with pain pill or heroin addiction and then die while waiting to get into a program that offers Suboxone or its generic equivalent, buprenorphine. Experts still have not agreed, however, […]
Jan 06, 2016
People who think about going into heroin recovery in Fresno County worry about the barriers that will stand in their way to getting treatment. It takes a while for most people to get from the point of thinking about treatment to the time when they actually get into heroin recovery. In Fresno County, there are […]
Jan 05, 2016
We all know the federal government moves slowly, so with this good news we are urging only cautious optimism. However, substance abuse treatment professionals across the nation are perking up joyous ears, eager to learn more about a recommendation by an FDA Advisory Panel to approve the use of Probuphine, a buprenorphine implant, to treat […]
Jan 04, 2016
Prescription drug abuse and opiate addiction in Texas are the focus of a report prepared by the Trust For America’s Health (TFAH). TFAH describes itself as a non-profit, non-partisan organization “dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community.” Opiate addiction has spread like wildfire throughout the country. TFAH promotes prevention of addiction […]
Dec 29, 2015
