We want you to read this if you have someone in your family or a close friend who is in need of Vicodin addiction treatment. It would be even better if you could get that person to read this right along with you. However, if you ask them, be prepared to have them get angry. Vicodin addiction is no laughing matter, and it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. You may be wondering why ...
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 ...
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 ...
