If you’re struggling with opiate addiction, you might be interested in heroin statistics in Savannah. Heroin is a toxic narcotic drug that’ll end your life quicker than you can say ‘Bob’s your uncle’—even if he isn’t. Heroin is a chemical processed from morphine, and whether you snort it, smoke it, or shoot it up, your body converts it back to morphine. It binds to the receptors in your brain that ...
Drug Courts for Prescription Drug Abuse in Columbus?
The Ledger-Enquirer recently ran a story about a postal worker struggling with prescription drug abuse in Columbus, GA. Richard Hunnicutt recently pled guilty to charges that will land him in a federal courtroom in Macon this upcoming spring. During his work as a mail sorter, he took packages of pain pills that were in transit from the Department of Veterans Affairs and kept them for ...
Heroin Dependence and Pain: Is There Help?
For the many people who end up addicted to pain pills, struggling with pain pill or heroin dependence because they have pain issues, there is nothing but frustration. The patient cannot deal with unrelenting pain and needs more pills at greater dosages. The doctor becomes uncomfortable writing those prescriptions and suspects the patient is manipulating him. What alternatives are available? Many ...
Oxycodone Detox: The Most Dangerous Relapse
You’re going through oxycodone detox, because you already know—without anybody nagging you—that pain pill abuse is dangerous. In fact, any opiate misuse or addiction becomes risky—whether you’re taking Percodans, chewing patches, smoking opium, or shooting up heroin. Don’t fool yourself that one type of addiction is any less dangerous than another. But the most dangerous dose is the one you take ...
Pain and Hydrocodone Addiction: Double Trouble
If your oxycodone or hydrocodone addiction came about because you were trying to deal with some kind of chronic pain, you face a dilemma as you consider your options for addiction treatment. Many doctors at medication maintenance clinics will tell you that it does little good to treat a hydrocodone addiction if you can’t get rid of the pain that caused it. Nobody ever begins taking pain pills ...
Heroin: Be More Than a Demographic
Why does the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) tell us that opiate addiction is now an epidemic, the number one cause of injury death in America today? Use of pain pills and heroin remained stable throughout the Sixties and Seventies, but it quadrupled dramatically in the nineties and doubled again over the last decade. Officials have linked recent heroin deaths in Georgia to a more powerful ...
