It’s sad when you place your faith in doctors to help you manage intractable, long-term pain and they abuse the privilege of your trust. The trial for two doctors exacerbating pain pill addiction in Alabama is set for July, and they each face 19 criminal counts at their trial in the U.S. District Court of Mobile. Dr. John Patrick Couch and Dr. Xiulu Ruan not only facilitated pain pill addiction ...
SAMHSA Update on Buprenorphine Treatment
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 ...
Drug Court and Addiction Treatment in Georgia
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 Georgia, but about the problems with drug court in ...
Opioid Drug Treatment Programs: Why Insurance Won’t Pay
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. The ultimate goal of any ...
