Children of those with substance use disorders are often the silent victims of addiction. Drug use in the home of a young child can take an emotional, psychological, and physical toll on them that changes the course of their future. When someone is dealing with their addiction, they are often too preoccupied with the drug’s hold over them to realize their child may be hurting or taking on many of ...
Drug Addiction Counseling and Treatment
Drug addiction counseling is so important to your success in combating substance abuse. Getting help is more than just entering a treatment program. Drugs, alcohol and other substances affect your life in different ways. Understanding why you take drugs, how it influences you, and what triggers your addiction is extremely important in not only going clean but staying clean. Identifying ...
Buprenorphine Treatment: Stories of Success
More and more people have come to know that buprenorphine treatment means getting help using Suboxone for opioid dependence. Initially, only the brand-name of the drug was common knowledge—Suboxone—but people increasingly recognize buprenorphine as the generic medication in Suboxone. Opting for buprenorphine rather than methadone means your visits to a treatment program can move from daily to ...
What You Need to Know about Opioid Withdrawal – Oxford
Opioid use and opioid withdrawal are increasingly in the news. On April 5, 2017, The Washington Post reported about the opioid crisis, ”Scott Gottlieb, the physician and entrepreneur who is President Trump's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, told senators Wednesday that the nation's opioid crisis is a “public health emergency on the order of Ebola and Zika” and requires dramatic ...
Treating Opiate Addiction Near Fort Worth
If you watched CNN’s recent edition of Anderson Cooper’s 360⁰ that discussed this country’s opiate epidemic, you may already know that you have an option for treating opiate addiction near Fort Worth. At one point in the program Anderson Cooper introduced an officer connected with the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (PAARI), which specifically deals with opiate addiction. Fort ...
Maine Governor on Drug Addiction Treatment: Why Bother?
If you are going into drug addiction treatment, just be glad you don’t live in the state of Maine. That’s where the person with the most hard-hearted hang-up about opiate drug addiction treatment lives. It’s Paul LePage, the governor of Maine. He was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, and one can only hope that the people will kick him out of office in 2018. In the words of the late ...
