Just what is motivation, and how will you know if you’re motivated to succeed at your opiate addiction treatment? Is it enough to hate the drugs you use and go to a methadone treatment program hoping that you can turn your life around? The counselor assigned to help you through your stages of treatment will talk with you quite a bit about motivation and change. The Substance Abuse and Mental ...
Cross-Addiction Treatment
When you decide to go into treatment for an opiate use disorder, you are at risk for cross-addiction after opiate addiction. You can even develop another addiction at the same time as you are still fighting your initial addiction. Likewise, if you’ve been abusing weed or alcohol, you might realize that the lesser addiction has always been on your route to the one you’re now trying to kick. All ...
