Why do you think that people with addiction issues seem to make so many poor choices and become so easily irritated? Research by Dr. Merrill Norton of the University of George tells us that those who experience alcohol or opiate prescription drug abuse beginning in their teens put themselves at high risk of permanent brain damage. This damage halts the development of the brain’s prefrontal cortex, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Family Participation at Heroin Treatment Centers
You probably know by now that heroin treatment centers offer effective strategies for beating a heroin or opiate addiction. Whether you became addicted to pain pills like hydrocodone or oxycodone and moved on to heroin, or if heroin has always been your drug of choice, you understand first-hand how horrible withdrawal symptoms can be. You have experienced the struggles to avoid using when cravings ...
Cost of Heroin in Fresno: Police Deputy’s Honor
Who can accurately say what the cost of heroin in Fresno is? For Fresno deputy police chief Keith Foster, arrested in March 2015 for distribution and possession of drugs, the cost of heroin is his freedom, the respect of his peers and the community, and ultimately, if he is proven guilty, it will cost him his career. Foster and four others were arrested after an investigation conducted by a field ...
Depression and Opiate or Hydrocodone Addiction
Almost half of all people struggling with heroin, oxycodone, or hydrocodone addiction are also experiencing depression or some other kind of emotional disorder. According to Dual Diagnosis.org, the person abusing opiates becomes confused about where his depression ends and his addiction begins. Just the very fact of addiction is depressing. Researchers for the British Journal of Psychiatry have ...
