You’re trying to make your life better. You’re overcoming your addiction with the help of Suboxone, and your life is finally starting to become manageable. And then you find out you need to have surgery. No big deal, right? Well, if you’re on Suboxone, there’s some things you need to consider before going under the ….
Suboxone, a drug designed specifically for opiate and alcohol addiction, hit the American markets in 2002, and has steadily been gaining acceptance as a reliable alternative and addition to traditional drug and alcohol treatment. Made from a combination of buprenorphine, a powerful narcotic, and naloxone, an opiod blocker, Suboxone works in two different ways. The ….
When it comes to opiate addiction, there’s not an easy choice. Some people recommend quitting cold turkey through a detox center, saying it’s the only way to achieve real abstinence. Others take a harm reduction model and recommend a methadone maintenance program to help overcome the drug urges and cravings. Others don’t like the stigma ….
When it comes to talking to children about alcohol, it can be hard to know what to say or how to say it for concerned parents. It is important to convey the information in such a way that the child does not feel as though they are being attacked so that they get the most ….
When it comes to addiction, the individual who uses the drugs have chosen to try them to begin with. However, with prescription drugs sometimes it is unavoidable and the person who is taking them did not know that they could become addictive. There are four helpful tips for avoiding addiction to prescription drugs. 1. Listen ….
As of the first time using opiates, the brain readily adapts to the drug’s effects on neurotransmitter production. Over time, the brain’s chemical pathways take on a whole new configuration that relies on a continuous supply of opiates. After months or years of opiate abuse, physical dependency and addiction have taken a firm hold over ….
People recovering from long histories of opiate abuse often develop a condition known as protracted withdrawal syndrome. In a nutshell, protracted withdrawal syndrome is an extended version of the withdrawal period that develops when stopping drug use. Like the initial withdrawal phase, protracted withdrawal becomes an ongoing threat to a person’s efforts to remain drug-free. ….
If you are looking to make it through opioid rehabilitation, you have probably considered medication assisted treatment. For many addicts the only way to make it through detoxification is with the help of a medication designed to balance out opioid withdrawal. Some people have luck with methadone, but there have been advances in medication assisted ….
When it comes to opioid addiction treatment methods, you have a lot of options. The reality is that there isn’t a single, universal cause of all addiction and because of that, there isn’t a single, universal solution. Each person comes to their addiction individually and they need to find an individual solution to their somewhat ….
Addiction treatment has come a long way over the past few decades, developing medication therapies to help improve the chances of continued abstinence for recovering opiate addicts. Suboxone, one of the more commonly used medication treatments, exists as one of two brand name buprenorphine-based drugs specifically formulated to treat opiate addiction. First developed in 2002, ….
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