When if you’ve realized you’ve got a hydrocodone addiction, then what comes next?There’s a dual dilemma facing the patient who suffers from real pain. If you’re in treatment with a doctor and you become addicted to your pain medication, what can you do? Maybe your injury or illness has been so disruptive to your life and so debilitating that you can only handle your everyday functions with the ...
Self-Test for Prescription Drug Addiction
Maybe you’re hearing about prescription drug addiction every time you watch the news or pick up the newspaper. Maybe it seems to you like everybody is talking about the risks of pain pills and how quickly this problem is growing in the United States. Maybe you’re noticing this topic because you wonder, if no matter how impossible it seems, you might have developed a prescription drug ...
Heroin Dependence and Violence: A Criminal Combination
If you’re a victim of heroin dependence, you’re already descending into a criminal world full of dealers, drug bosses, and crime lords. But the worse thing for any addict can be your first point of contact, the street dealer in your neighborhood. Take, for example, two recent arrests in Solano County, California. One of the men was staked out because officials suspected that he was violating the ...
Veterans on Opiates
Friends and family of military people really don’t understand that veterans on opiates is a widespread problem for those who serve our country. Men and women who return home from military deployment have difficulty re-adjusting to life stateside, and if they were taking pain pills when they were deployed their VA doctor at home is unlikely to change their medication regimen. Veterans on Opiates: ...
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 ...
Zohydro: Quick and Deadly
The FDA approved a powerful narcotic pain killer called Zohydro late in 2013, but this drug’s potential for abuse has given pause to lawmakers in some states who question whether it should be so readily available. While its manufacturer advertises its absence of acetaminophen as a benefit—with acetaminophen directly linked to liver failure—Zohydro contains five times as much hydrocodone as ...
