Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Withdrawal From Kratom
Kratom is a substance derived from the leaf of a Southeast Asian tree that has opioid-like effects. People take it to relax or elevate their mood and energy. Many...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022Understanding Fentanyl Addiction and Abuse
The opioid crisis has been making headlines since it first began in the late 1990s. Only in the mid-2010s did we start to hear more about a particular opioid...Read More -
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019Why Suboxone is Not the Solution to Getting off Heroin
Buprenorphine (more commonly known by its brand names, Suboxone, Subutex and Zubsolv) is one of just three federally approved medications to treat opioid addiction. But because of its intense...Read More -
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019Integrative Opioid Addiction Treatment: Lasting Recovery Without the Suboxone
An estimated 2.4 million people in the US struggle with prescription painkiller addiction, and almost half a million suffer from heroin addiction. Unfortunately, much of that has to do...Read More -
Thursday, January 10th, 2019Could Kratom Addiction be the Next Chapter of the Opioid Crisis?
The opioid crisis is the most pressing public health issue of our times: it destroys lives and divides communities, and opioid addiction treatment is often inconsistent or inaccessible to...Read More -
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018The Distressing Downsides of Using Methadone to Overcome Heroin Addiction
During World War II, German doctors used a synthetic drug to treat soldiers when they ran out of morphine. The drug, which was developed a decade before by German...Read More -
Thursday, October 18th, 2018Self-medicating Depression With Opioids
Self-medicating depression with opioids. Life is not without its challenges. Sometimes the struggles, pain, suffering and heartbreak it involves can feel like too much to bear. If this...Read More