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Amy Winehouse Loves an Idiot 2008-03-03 06:29:32 Okay, so I heard about this first from The Junky’s Wife but I had to talk about it here because, well, I heart Winehouse
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and let’s just say that there’s a lot about her life—as far as the media describes her—that I can identify with. And this latest little bit, just makes me shake my head.
Loving an Addict And Loving Yourself 2008-02-29 14:43:03 There are a number of blogs out there written by women who are married to addicts, mothers of junkies or otherwise connected (and deeply scarred by) someone else’s addiction. Among my favorites are The Junky’s Wife, Married to an Addict, Married to My Ex, and Mother to an Addict. Whether or not the writer is [...] Read more:Yourself
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What Winners on Suboxone Do is Blog 2008-02-28 21:12:24 There are two excellent blogs out there run by a rad lady in recovery named Erin. One is What Winners
Do and the other is her latest addition to the recovery blogging family, The Suboxone Help Spot.
The Difference Between Naltrexone and Naloxone 2008-02-25 06:42:30 There seems to be a little confusion about the difference between the two “nal-xone” drugs, naltrexone and naloxone. Two very different drugs, the similar names are confusing but what makes it worse is the fact that both are related to the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse. Hopefully this will clear up the misconceptions.
Protect Yourself From a Methadone Overdose 2008-02-19 13:57:14 Now, I really mean it this time: this is the last I’m going to say about overdoses for awhile. I thought I’d pretty much gotten it out of my system with the urban myths about overdoses and the tips on how to avoid an overdose and how to know one when you see it. But yesterday, someone I know quite well overdosed unintentionally. They have had a lifetime methadone maintenance slot for years now, and if ever there was a success story to support methadone maintenance, he was it: after a lifetime of being a street junkie addicted to heroin and doing crimes to pay for his habit, he’s managed to hold onto the same job (even move up in the company), married a great gal and had a baby with her. Then yesterday, he had a migraine, happened to run into an associate from the old days who offered Read more:Overdose
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An Interview With a Methadone Addict 2008-03-12 16:56:12 Personal stories are really important when it comes to drug withdrawal and addiction treatment. Each individual’s circumstance is affected by and affects his or her drug use and recovery. Here’s an interview with someone who started experimenting with heroin in his teens and became an addict in his early 20s. He’s now 40 years old, a heroin-free junky on methadone. Here’s what he has to say:
Things to Consider in Lortab Withdrawal 2008-03-11 19:43:35 Lortab, a combo of hydrocodone and acetaminophen like Lorcet, Norco and Vicodin, seems to be a supplemental drug of choice for those addicted to OxyContin and other oxycodone derivatives. Note: I have met a handful or two that somehow stumbled onto Lortab without realizing the addictive effects and ended up “strung out,” but more often I hear people say that they are addicted to other drugs and then couldn’t keep up with their body’s tolerance and so supplemented with Lortab.
Taking the Plunge 2008-03-10 20:53:09 When the folks here at Suboxone Blog asked me to write a few guest posts, I was flattered and really excited. I also thought the writing would be easy. It's easy enough for me to bang out posts over at Diary of a Quitter, after all. Read more:Taking
When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Relax 2008-03-08 21:11:12 I was reading the Diary of a Quitter the other day and I was struck by her honesty. Now a great many of her posts pass along the inspiration that she has come across in her reading, through other blogs, from therapy, friends and other sources of support and these are great and helpful in her own way. But when she admits as she does in her posts “Hard to Fight It” and “The Honeymoon is Over” that recovery is not all pink clouds and happy reclamations of life, love and happiness. Read more:Going
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VH1 Celebrity Rehab Reunion Recap 2008-03-14 16:42:55 So who stayed clean and who didn’t? That was the big question for everyone as they tuned in last night for the reunion show of VH1’s CelebrityRehab
with Dr. Drew Pinsky. The show wrapped production in August, 2007, and since the show has aired, the public has been sitting with their eyes peeled, barely blinking, staring down the participants and waiting for them to relapse. So…did they or didn’t they? Read more:Recap
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Blog – Get The Most Current Pharmacology Information Here 2008-03-19 07:57:51 Now, I have a Master’s degree and a graduate certification in the physiology of addiction, but I’m no pharmacology expert. To answer your questions or inform my writing, I do my research like anybody else, by reading textbooks, medical journals and bookmarking educational sites online. However, the world of pharma is one that is constantly evolving—new research, new theories, new theorists, new uses for old drugs—and it’s difficult to keep up with everything. One way to do it is to subscribe to news feeds, of course, but there’s nothing like a college student, medical student or grad student to bring a certain sarcasm and skepticism to the business of drug-making, buying and prescribing. Read more:Current
Are Generic Drugs as Addictive as Brand Name Drugs? 2008-03-18 14:30:12 Chances are that about half of you who have prescriptions for Vicodin or Lorcet or Norco don’t receive a little bottle from the pharmacy with the brand name on it. Most likely it will use the generic name: Hydrocodone and Acetaminophen. Is there any difference between brand name and generic prescription painkillers? And more importantly, is either more or less addictive than the other? Read more:Generic
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Handling a Percocet Withdrawal 2008-03-21 21:59:27 Percocet is the brand name for a drug that combines oxycodone and acetaminophen. This same combination but in different strengths can also be found in the brand name drugs, Roxicet, Tylox and Endocet, but Percocet is by far the most popular prescription painkiller. Read more:Handling
Rap Music Glorifies Drug Use and Abuse 2008-04-04 08:47:43 Big freakin’ surprise, right? Science Daily reported recently that there’s a new study out that the “glamorization of drugs in rap music jumped dramatically over 2 decades.” Read more:Music
Interview with a Buprenorphine Study Participant 2008-04-02 22:09:57 So the Interview with a Methadone Addict garnered such a huge response that I felt that a sequel was in order. Today, we speak with a 30-year-old guy who stumbled into a really incredible opportunity, a buprenorphine study. Here’s what he had to say: Read more:Study
How To Fight Drug Cravings With Video Games 2008-04-09 13:51:47 ABC News has published an article extolling the virtues of virtual reality in helping addicts deal with the issue of fighting off drug cravings as they go through recovery. This is great for those who are treating their opiate addiction at home using Suboxone, since the support provided by NA meetings and measures like this one can help take the edge off on the days when it’s harder than others to stick to the treatment. Read more:Video Games
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Interview With a Methadone Mommy 2008-04-11 19:59:53 Part three in our interview series checks in with a mother who’s on methadone. A heroin-free addict, our methadone mama went through pregnancy on the juice. She talks about what it was like and gives some advice to other methadone mamas. Read more:Mommy
Getting Painkillers to Those Who Need It and Away From Those Who Don’t 2008-04-14 13:04:54 ScienceDaily recently did an article called Doctor's Offices Can Help Stem Abuse Of Oxycontin, Other Narcotic Painkillers, summarized as, “a new study shows how doctor's offices and clinics can identify patients who may be diverting or misusing narcotic painkillers such as OxyContin, and steer them to help, while preserving access to the drugs for patients who truly need them to control their pain.”
Drug Rehab on a Budget 2008-04-18 21:48:40 A lot of people have commented here on The Suboxone Blog about their need for opiate addiction treatment and a problem with being able to pay for it. It makes sense. Drug addiction may destroy relationships, careers, and your health but it attacks the bank account first. I mean, prescription painkillers aren’t cheap, whether you buy them on the street, off your cousin or get them legitimately from the drugstore. And while insurance may cover part of your prescription, many don’t have insurance and covering the cost of the dose that seems to grow exponentially along with your addiction is enough to send you to the brink. Read more:Rehab
Tools for Successful Opiate Drug Addiction Treatment 2008-04-19 15:16:58 When you’re using Suboxone as an outpatient treatment to break an opiate addiction, you’re going it alone. It’s the nature of the treatment and it has many perks—you are free to continue working, taking care of kids or elder family members, keep your addiction issues private—but there are a few drawbacks as well. If you do your outpatient treatment through Meditox, you get 24-hour access to their support desk which provides you with medical advice and referrals to local support groups, doctors who understand your predicament and any other resources you need to stay clean and sober. Here are a few recovery tools that you can implement on your own in addition to Suboxone treatment to increase your chances of a successful, lasting recovery. Read more:Tools
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Shaking Things Up – Staying Safe Until Safe Becomes Dangerous 2008-04-21 07:49:24 Drug addiction—especially opiate addiction—is isolating in nature. When we’re using, we want to hide the severity of our addiction from everyone around us, we don’t want to be bothered when we’re high, and we don’t want to have to deal with anyone else’s problems because we have enough of our own. Choosing to face that addiction head-on and go into treatment is a huge step, but those of us who choose an outpatient treatment like the Suboxone withdrawal offered by Meditox often choose to go through recovery just like we went through addiction: alone. Read more:Shaking
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How to Get Support in Drug Addiction Recovery 2008-04-23 07:18:14 When you’re running your own outpatient recovery like a Suboxone treatment, it’s crucial that you put some effort into creating a strong support network. You need peers who are going through the same thing you are to commiserate with and mentors who have been there and done that who can give you advice. You also need a little impartial guidance. So how do you get the support you need during outpatient Suboxone detox? Just ask. Read more:Support
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5 Ways to Spot an Addict 2008-04-23 07:14:36 If you suspect a friend, colleague or loved-one is addicted, you might be afraid of approaching the person, how can you tell if someone might be addicted?
Confronting someone based purely on a gut instinct could lead to a big mistake and a real mess if you are wrong, but if you care about this person [...]
3 Ways to Save a Narcotics Anonymous Meeting 2008-04-25 13:13:43 When you’re undergoing an outpatient treatment using Suboxone or methadone, it’s important that you find your resources for support wherever you can. One of the most common ways people choose to do that is to take advantage of the many 12-step support groups like Narcotics Anonymous. Free of charge with meetings every day of the week and, in many towns, many times a day, there really isn’t a more convenient or cheaper way to get the help you need.
Find Support at The Second Road During Suboxone Detox 2008-04-27 07:59:50 My last post discussed ways to get through an NA meeting when you’d rather be anywhere but sitting in a metal folding chair listening to other addicts. This was based on another post about finding support wherever you can when you’re on a Suboxone detox. However, Erin of What Winners Do commented that as an organization, Narcotics Anonymous isn’t known for embracing those who are on any kind of medical maintenance (like methadone) or medical detox (like Suboxone), and she’s right. In an effort to come up with new ways to help people find the support they need, I turned to my own support system, the online world of bloggers who share their day-to-day struggles in recovery and The Junky’s Wife provided a valuable resource: The Second
Road. Read more:Support
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How to Know When You’re Ready for Opiate Withdrawal 2008-04-29 14:24:06 Some people say that you can’t be successful in recovery if you’re not ready. Others say it goes deeper than that, that you have to lose everything before you can fully understand how vital it is to get clean.
Personally, I don’t agree.
Interview With a Methadone Addict Part II 2008-05-01 12:42:08 A few weeks ago, I posted an interview here with a man who was on methadone maintenance. It garnered quite a few responses, and so he asked me to follow up and let you know what’s happening with him. To preserve his anonymity, I’ll call him Smith.
Happy Half-Birthday to Me! 2008-05-02 13:38:46 Well! It’s been a while since I’ve made a post here, and I have missed y’all something terrible, but I can’t think of a better reason to break my writer’s block than this:
This week marks the six-month anniversaryof me beginning Suboxone treatment! Woot!
I can hardly believe that a half of a year has already passed, [...] Read more:Happy
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