You’re going through oxycodone detox, because you already know—without anybody nagging you—that pain pill abuse is dangerous. In fact, any opiate misuse or addiction becomes risky—whether you’re taking Percodans, chewing patches, smoking opium, or shooting up heroin. Don’t fool yourself that one type of addiction is any less dangerous than another. But the most dangerous dose is the one you take ...
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 ...
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 ...
