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Friendships That Fail During Opiate Detox 2008-05-03 09:48:26 Because opiate addiction is so all-encompassing, the relationships that stick through the ordeal tend to be enabling relationships, that is, friends and family members who either help us to continue addictive behavior or those people who we use with. This can be a problem when we try to quit using essentially on our own. Read more:Detox
Avoiding Opiate Detox Relapse Triggers 2008-05-05 14:02:03 There are as many triggers to relapse during opiate detox as there are people undergoing opiate withdrawal treatment. It can be as simple as the mention of a certain drug or the description of using it or what it’s like under the influence. For others visual triggers like seeing someone use in a movie is enough where others only find themselves fade under pressure when someone is using in front of them. Being offered something to drink can trigger the desire to use, even if alcoholism isn’t a problem. That’s why so many find that abstinence from all mind altering substances is the best way to stay off their addictive drug of choice. So how do you avoid relapse when you’re faced with a trigger? Read more:Detox
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Drug Addiction Recovery Online at SoberCircle.com 2008-05-09 12:45:46 So in addition to SecondRoad.com and Narcotics Anonymous meetings blogging about your recovery like the fabulous bottlecappie does, there is yet another online resource for those who are looking for support during the often-isolating Suboxone detox: SoberCircle.com. Read more:Recovery
Frequently Asked Questions About Suboxone Treatment 2008-05-07 12:19:39 So lots of questions have popped up on this blog about different aspects of Suboxone and its effects that haven’t been touched upon in different posts. In an effort to answer those questions, I’ve compiled a list of frequently asked questions below. Read more:Treatment
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Top 10 Signs of Cocaine Addiction 2008-05-15 09:00:49 Cocaine is a highly addictive drug of choice for many jet-setters and entertainers because it enables them to party all night long. Many students get hooked on cocaine or “coke” because it’s a stimulant and allows them to stay up and cram for finals or write a term paper for days on end.
Think you can’t [...] Read more:Cocaine
How Chaos Contributes to Opiate Detox 2008-05-13 07:15:20 You’ve gotten through the roughest parts of opiate detox. You’re at home and you continue on your maintenance schedule according to the treatment plan that you’ve created with your doctor. You get up every morning and take your medication, be it Suboxone or methadone. If you have a job, then you head there and if you have small children, then you spend time with them. If not, maybe a meeting Read more:Chaos
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Books That Empower Opiate Addiction Recovery 2008-05-11 09:37:04 If you’re running your own opiate detox through an outpatient program like Suboxone or methadone, you are left to your own devices when it comes to the psychological aspect of your drug use and addiction. Reading is a great way to pass the time, and it can help you learn more about your addiction and yourself in the process. Check out some of the books below. Read more:Books
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Painkiller Addiction Versus Chronic Pain Management 2008-05-17 13:59:35 It’s an ongoing debate in the medical community and among those who suffer from chronic pain: is it worse to suffer from pain or deal with addiction to the opiate painkillers prescribed to alleviate that pain? According to Medical News Today, the debate continues and neither side of the argument shows signs of giving way. Read more:Painkiller
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Naloxone Distribution Among Opiate Addicts 2008-05-19 11:37:21 Yale University decided to stage a study to prove or disprove whether the assertions of drug counselors, doctors and other public health officials have been saying for years: that addicts can be trained to recognize an opiate overdose and treat as successfully as any paramedic or medical professional. The result? According to Medical News Today, it is a true statement, and one that backs up the id Read more:Addicts
5 Tips to Help Your Child Deal With Opiate Addiction 2008-05-29 09:12:31 For parents, there are few things worse than discovering that their child is addicted to opiates. But there’s one thing that few parents realize: there are few things worse for your child to discover about him or herself as well. As the anti-drug commercials put it, “No one ever said, ‘When I grow up, I want to be a junkie,’” and for your child, finding themselves in the tortuous positio
Washington DC Needle Exchange Program Update 2008-05-27 07:32:56 At the beginning of the year, we talked about George W. lifting the ban on funding for needle exchange programs in Washington
DC and later discussed how the programs would receive $650,000 in federal funding. Well, just to keep you posted, I thought I’d update you on what’s happening in our nation’s capital in the area of harm reduction and opiate addiction treatment. Read more:Needle
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Dealing With Chronic Pain in Recovery. 2008-06-11 20:47:21 Valeria's recent post on dealing with triggers in recovery got me thinking about my own triggers, and the ways I've learned to diffuse them since I've been in Suboxone treatment.
One of my biggest triggers is pain. Pain is probably a major reason why a lot of us started taking opiates in the first place, and I know that pain is one of the biggest triggers of relapse. So what do you do when you're Read more:Recovery
Drug Addiction Relapse Prevention and Exercise 2008-06-17 15:39:16 According to the Associated Press, there’s some new research out that says exercise may help prevent substance abuse. Well, of course it does! We knew that, right? But it’s always nice to be validated by the scientific community.
The United States government is pushing for even more research in this area, something that explores the effects of “regular” activity as opposed to the “runn Read more:Exercise
Can You Overdose on Buprenorphine? 2008-06-23 09:38:01 The short answer: no. There are no documented cases of death caused by a dose of buprenorphine, no matter how large. In fact, rather than throwing your body into respiratory depression like other opiates in high doses, an overdose of buprenorphine sends you right into opiate detox, complete with all the harsh opiate withdrawal symptoms, especially if you’re physically addicted to heroin or metha Read more:Overdose
Buprenorphine Caused Opiate Withdrawal in Clinical Trial, Part II 2008-06-21 09:13:01 I can’t stop thinking about it. Yesterday, we talked about a guy on buprenorphine who saved up his pills and tried to return to maintenance after a heroin relapse by taking 11 8-milligram pills only to find himself smack in the middle of a nasty opiate withdrawal. Read more:Trial
It Is Not As Bad As You Might Think 2008-06-20 08:23:06 When I was using drugs, the idea that I might be an addict was a source of great shame. I wasn’t ashamed that I used drugs; that wasn’t my problem at all. No, I was ashamed that I’d lost control of my use, that I couldn’t quit when I wanted to, that I couldn’t handle [...]
Buprenorphine Caused Opiate Withdrawal in Clinical Trial 2008-06-19 07:13:10 I was looking around the other day for information about what happens when you mess around with your Suboxone prescription or try and take it other than prescribed. We’ve talked a little bit about the effects of Suboxone and how the naloxone sends you into opiate withdrawal if you try to dissolve the tablet and inject it. But here’s a case of the same result—opiate withdrawal—when someone Read more:Trial
College Students and Prescription Painkiller Addiction 2008-07-03 09:21:53 College students are well known for being less than moderate in their drinking and drug abuse. Wild fraternity parties and drunken stunts are the stuff that jokes and Hollywood movies are based on. But Science Daily reports that the nonmedical use of prescription pain killers is the new signifier of drug abuse, not alcohol. Read more:College
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Opiate Addiction Books I Want to Write 2008-07-01 09:23:52 Having gone through the experience of being addicted to opiates, counseling other opiate addicts, working at epidemiological studies focused on researching opiate addicts, and then formally studying the finer points of opiate addiction, I’ve pretty much hit every side of this addiction thing and what I’ve found are a ton of misconnections, misunderstandings and, sadly, people who are burnt out Read more:Books
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Do Suboxone and Methadone Have a New Cousin? 2008-06-29 09:03:55 US WorldMeds is a Kentucky-based specialty pharmaceutical company and they have recently completed Phase III clinical trials of lofexidine hydrochloride (Lofexidine) in the treatment of opiate addiction. More specifically, Lofexidine would treat the withdrawal symptoms associated with opiate detox just like buprenorphine and methadone. So is there a new treatment in the world of opiate addiction?
Injection Drug Users Hit the Vending Machines 2008-06-27 09:45:02 Imagine a world in which the distribution of clean needles is not only legal but convenient, not relegated to two-hour exchanges in a back alley or handed out surreptitiously in the park after midnight. Imagine, if you will, that there are actual vending machines which dispense clean needles, guaranteed to be brand new and disease [...] Read more:Injection
Online Painkiller Prescriptions and the DEA 2008-06-25 08:34:03 It looks like the Drug Enforcement Administration has a new idea that they want to run by you: what if we allowed controlled substances to be prescribed electronically? It’s a little more than just an idea at this point, actually. It’s a proposed rule, which means that it will require a public comment period before it can be passed and certainly before it is implemented. Read more:Painkiller
Opiate Detox is Bad for Relationships 2008-07-17 08:38:28 The other day I posted about how relationships can hurt opiate detox. You get too involved in the relationship and stop focusing on what you need to do to get better and end up relapsing. Or you break up and you end up relapsing. Not good. Specifically, not good for the detox and your dependence on drug use in general.
But someone pointed out to me that it’s not just the opiate detox that suff Read more:Relationships
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Relationships During Opiate Detox 2008-07-11 08:15:26 Typically in the recovery world, there are two schools of thought concerning whether or not you should have a relationship while you’re going through detox and treatment for opiate addiction. The first is simple: don’t do it. Just don’t do it. Don’t date. Don’t hook up. And do not, under any circumstances, get romantically involved. The other school of thought is that two people are stro Read more:Relationships
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Opiate Addiction Determined by Genes 2008-07-09 08:41:47 Well, the experts got together—expert psychiatrists—and they decided that the prime suspect in the case of ‘who caused us to be opiate addicts‘ is our genes. At the annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, they discussed why it is that one person can take an opiate prescription or indulge in another addictive substance and [...] Read more:Genes
Prescription Drug Addiction and the Celebrity Drug Addiction Special 2008-07-07 08:41:52 If nothing else, it’s just too easy to get prescription meds that you don’t need when you’re a player in Hollywood. That’s one of the main foci of Dr. Drew’s Celebrity
Drug Addiction airing on VH1 this week.
Dr. Drew, as many of you most likely already know, is a beacon of sincerity shining his message of hope and recovery like a spotlight on the glaring issue of drug and alcohol addic Read more:Special
Strength in Opiate Addiction 2008-07-31 12:10:48 Bottlecappie wrote the other day about how sometimes when you’re on vacation, you get tempted to get loaded when you wouldn’t even consider it at home. There’s something about being somewhere different; the rules have changed. You are encouraged to indulge yourself. There’s no such thing as wasted time or diets on vacation. So does detox hit the skids once you exit the city limits, too?
Suboxone is Keeping Me Strong 2008-07-30 11:16:50 Vacation is hard. That's right, you heard me - vacation is hard.
I'm back in my hometown in South Florida, and temptation lurks around every corner. Nine months going strong in my recovery, and I take one trip away from home and suddenly I'm thinking of what great opportunities I'll have to look through the medicine cabinets of my parent's friends, and that I've been so good for so long- just a l Read more:Strong
Opiate Addiction Treatment in the United States 2008-07-29 09:18:50 So we’ve spent the past week or so talking about drug laws and criminal charges and sort of exploring the laws themselves and what they mean for us, and today we’re going to talk about opiate addiction treatment laws specifically. Read more:Treatment
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