Opium keeps cropping up in arrest reports in Fresno and throughout the Fresno County area. For many people living in this part of California, it’s their substance of choice. It’s strange how different drugs are used in different areas. In towns near the Mexican border, black tar heroin is more common. In places throughout Georgia, there is more use of the fine white powdered type of heroin. Maybe ...
What’s the Heroin Withdrawal Timeline in Fort Worth TX ?
Are you considering a methadone or Suboxone program for pain pill or heroin addiction? You may be wondering about the heroin withdrawal timeline. Fort Worth TX, programs throughout the area offer both drug-free and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs. Many heroin users find that MAT programs offer the best chance for successful recovery. Before we get into the stages of heroin ...
Suboxone, Substance Abuse, and Dependence
Learning more about buprenorphine’s role in substance abuse and dependence can help you fight the stigma that many people hold against medication-assisted treatment programs. It’s unfortunate that the old stigmas still exist against methadone and buprenorphine. A person with substance abuse problems from heroin, pain pills, or other opiates can participate in an opioid treatment program under ...
Heading Into Hydrocodone Abuse: The Side Effects
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Employers Quietly Supporting Opiate Treatment Centers
Many of today’s clients at opiate treatment centers hold down regular full-time jobs. In the past, most people attending treatment at methadone clinics came from the bottom rungs of society’s ladder, the people without jobs, oftentimes without homes, and without prospects. Heroin via a needle was the drug of choice for most of them. But a majority of the people seeking treatment today got their ...
Your Hydrocodone Treatment: It’s In Your Hands
The first time you took your drug of choice—the drug that would eventually be your first, last, and favorite drug—it was a voluntary action. The choice to take that drug was in your hands. But by the time you realized you were addicted and you desperately needed hydrocodone treatment, there was nothing voluntary about it. You were a prisoner of the drug. By then, you were compelled to seek out ...
