Most people swear they would do anything to protect their children. Mothers promise to fight like tigers against anyone who means harm to their little ones. Fathers vow that nobody who hurts their children will live to tell about it. Yet increasing numbers of formerly protective parents are putting their own children into foster care because of opiate drug abuse. Obviously, the parents are not ...
Questions About Treatment With Suboxone
The substance abuse professionals who supervise Suboxone therapy understand that the family members and significant others of persons with opiate addiction have many questions about treatment with Suboxone. Families wonder if Suboxone therapy is well regulated, and whether buprenorphine, the generic medication in Suboxone and Subutex, represents a good treatment option for their loved one. The ...
Healing the Brain in Outpatient Drug Treatment
If you know anything about opiate addiction, then you know that heroin and prescription pain pills are among the most addictive substances on the planet. As soon as you disengage from treatment, the urges and cravings overwhelm you once again and send you toppling into relapse. That’s why outpatient drug treatment takes such a long time, and it’s also why medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is ...
Opiate Addiction Recovery Plans That Work
Why do you have to go to a treatment center in order to stop abusing your drug of choice? You’ve asked yourself that, and no doubt there are members of your family who have asked you that same question. Opiate addiction recovery is no easy thing, and it takes a well-considered plan in order to sustain it. Learning how to put a support system in place and develop a plan to combat the risk of ...
Suboxone Treatment for Pain Patients
You start out with a prescription for pain medication and then you wonder why you can’t stop taking it. Are you still in pain, or have you become addicted? Maybe you need methadone or Suboxone treatment for addiction. How can you know for sure when your need for pain management ends and substance abuse takes over? The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) educates ...
Potential Changes for Suboxone Doctors
Everyone agrees, with the continuing increase in opioid overdose deaths, that access to Suboxone doctors must become easier. There’s no reason why someone should struggle with pain pill or heroin addiction and then die while waiting to get into a program that offers Suboxone or its generic equivalent, buprenorphine. Experts still have not agreed, however, on whether to change the ways that ...
