Texas is a big state, and Texans have big hearts. When someone falls victim to heroin dependence in Texas, they fall in a big way. Having Mexico right across the border certainly drives heroin as a drug of choice, especially for people who can’t afford designer drugs like 30-buck pain pills. Heroin is cheap and easy, and there’s plenty of heroin in Texas. There are also plenty of heroin arrests ...
The High Life: Withdrawal from Opiates in San Antonio
There’s an extraordinary luncheon platter being served, a cold turkey sandwich deluxe, on the menu at Anna’s Café in San Antonio, Texas. Withdrawal from opiates in San Antonio comes as a side dish, since you will no longer be able to buy heroin as part of the blue plate special. Officials from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration working with the San Antonio Police Department made half a dozen ...
Fentanyl Drug Misuse: It’s Fun Till You Die
Who doesn’t like a good party, right? That’s why drugs like fentanyl are known on the streets by exciting names like Dance Fever, Goodfella, TNT—Tango and Cash—and even China Girl. It’s a medication that lends itself easily to opiate drug misuse because it’s marketed as a transdermal pain patch, most commonly known as Duragesic. Fentanyl came into use in the 1980s, hailed as the next greatest ...
Change at Your California Methadone Treatment Program
Public attitudes toward use of both alcohol and drugs have always posed moral conflicts. According to SAMHSA, Americans go through periods when they are torn by the two opposing viewpoints that addicts should be ostracized from society and thrown in jail or they should be pitied and treated. The typical California methadone treatment program has long borne a stigma, a suspicion that anyone who ...
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 ...
Guest Dosing at a California Drug Treatment Program
Becoming integrated into a California drug treatment program that provides methadone offers you comfort on several levels. First, you are no longer shooting up with a drug or popping illicit pain pills that wear off after several hours so that you’re anxiously looking for more. Second, you’re no longer putting dirty needles into your arms, increasing your risk of overdose or contracting hepatitis ...
