Our population of Baby Boomers over the age of 60 is not just burgeoning—it has burgeoned so that they make up a significant part of the population. Middle-aged and young adults who interact with their parents and grandparents are often surprised to consider the idea of substance abuse in the elderly. But why wouldn’t there be a higher level of addiction among our senior citizens? Weren’t they the ...
Opioid Drug Treatment Programs: Why Insurance Won’t Pay
The insurance companies just don’t care that people can get help for opioid addiction through opioid drug treatment programs that utilize medications such as methadoneor buprenorphine in conjunction with counseling and other therapies. It doesn’t matter to them that prescription pain killers and heroin account for 61 percent of all overdose deaths in the country. The ultimate goal of any ...
Insurance and Heroin Recovery in Fresno County
People who think about going into heroin recovery in Fresno County worry about the barriers that will stand in their way to getting treatment. It takes a while for most people to get from the point of thinking about treatment to the time when they actually get into heroin recovery. In Fresno County, there are no more barriers than there are anywhere else. Most of the worries that people have are ...
