Some patients who take Suboxone® as part of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) also take Xanax. They may have prescriptions for both drugs from separate doctors. Certain patients in MAT who take Xanax use it with the intention of increasing the high they feel from opioids. Anyone who takes these two drugs together has numerous risks to face. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why you should change ...
Heading Into Hydrocodone Abuse: The Side Effects
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Drug Treatment Programs In Texas
What’s your excuse for the slip-up you made recently? The people who staff drug treatment programs in Texas have heard every reason there is for relapsing. You may call it a slip-up, but without making any bones about it your so-called slip-up is, pure and simple, a relapse. We have some of the best excuses ever heard listed right here—not so you can use them, but so you can sit back, take a look ...
OxyContin Addiction in Fort Worth: Be Very Angry!
If you’re one of the people suffering from OxyContin addiction in Fort Worth, you should be angry—be very angry! You should be angry at the individual physicians and pharmacists who have chosen to abuse the oaths they took when they received their licenses to practice, because most pain pills that people buy illicitly on the street are not stolen. They are put on the street by doctors and ...
Opioid Dependence: An Equal Opportunity Killer
This is the second part in a story about naloxone, the drug that can bring you back from the brink of death if you overdose because of your heroin or opioid dependence. NBC reported recently on the heroin epidemic and the FDA’s recent approval of naloxone, also known as Narcan. Reporter Kate Snow interviewed a Vermont married couple, both doctors working at a medication-assisted treatment ...