There are many myths and misunderstandings about methadone therapy that cause people to put off treatment with methadone to control opiate addiction. Some people have difficulty tolerating the idea of reporting to a methadone treatment program on a daily basis. Many people hesitate because they worry about the cost, although in some states, many aspects of treatment are covered at least to some ...
Heroin Addiction Recovery: You Can Forget About Relapse
Imagine that you’re working on heroin addiction recovery—and you suddenly stop struggling with triggers. You simply don’t have them anymore. It’s because you’ve forgotten about all your past occasions of using heroin. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? This speculation has been prompted by research published in August 2015 in Molecular Psychiatry, a medical journal, detailing the research performed by ...
Infectious Diseases, Needles and Heroin Abuse in Fresno
The Business Journal, an online news magazine, has published a story by Hannah Esqueda that the Fresno County District Attorney and the Fresno Chamber of Commerce share a concern about heroin abuse in Fresno and throughout the Central Valley. Despite the existence of multiple methadone and Suboxone treatment programs and also the Fresno Needle Exchange, people are continuing with heroin abuse in ...
Drug Courts Cannot Ban Medication Maintenance Therapy
Up until now, drug courts have been in a position to forbid those addicted to opiates from seeking medication maintenance therapy. Many drug courts throughout the country hold the power to say yay or nay over the kind of drug abuse treatment that someone receives; and abstinence-based therapy simply does not work for a majority of heroin or pain pill addicts. Such decisions should, in fact, be ...
