We’ve all heard about the TREAT Act and its effect on the availability of buprenorphine formulations like Suboxone. The TREAT Act, also known as Senate Bill 2645 or The Recovery Enhancement for Addiction Treatment Act, if passed, means that Suboxone, Subutex, and other forms of buprenorphine will be available for more people and waiting lists reduced. So what’s the holdup? The bill’s original ...
Gone Haywire: Prescription Drug Abuse in Georgia
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 states like Georgia, are taking a proactive approach at preventing ...
Opiate Drug Abuse Means More Foster Care Placements
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 because of opiate drug abuse. Obviously, the parents are not ...
Opiate Addiction Recovery Plans That Work
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 sustain it. Learning how to put a support system in place and develop a plan to combat the risk of ...
Caring For Yourself in Opiate Drug Addiction Recovery
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. But, how can you help your body as you begin an opiate treatment ...
Suboxone Treatment for Pain Patients
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 over? The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) educates ...
