Whether you, or someone you love is struggling with addiction, the urge to try to detox at home can be powerful. Shame, fear or concerns about missing work or school may motivate the decision. We may try to convince ourselves and others we can control a crisis that’s already out of our hands. The choice to consider outside help for …

The process of relapse involves much more than just a moment of weakness—it occurs as a series of steps in the direction that is heading toward addictive behavior. Along the way, however, there are many opportunities to actively use new strategies and act to halt and reverse the process. Relapse occurs for many reasons and entertaining temptation and acting on …

When overcoming a drug or alcohol addiction, there are treatment programs available to help people work through addictive behaviors and learn to develop healthy behaviors and habits. The truth is that many people who try overcoming the addiction on their own usually relapse. The good news is that you can get the help you need from many different types of …

How does one administer Naloxone? It seems difficult. Like an incredible amount of responsibility. It can be. Nevertheless, learning how to administer Naloxone might not be as hard as we think. Furthermore, knowing how to dispense Naloxone just might save someone’s life. What if you could save someone from a heroin overdose? Would that be worth the responsibility of administering …

Precipitated withdrawal transpires when someone with a dependence on full agonist opioids, such as heroin, replaces it with a partial opioid agonist, such as buprenorphine. Precipitated withdrawal is characterized by rapid development. While using a commonly prescribed drug, such as Suboxone, withdrawal symptoms appear within 1-2 hours of the first dose and usually subside within a few hours but can …

According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), addiction is a chronic brain disease that impacts the brain’s reward, pleasure, memory, and motivation centers. Like most chronic diseases, it does not just come out of nowhere. Often, it takes a set of unfortunate circumstances that cause a person who would typically avoid substance abuse to be dragged into a …

When a person is addicted to alcohol or certain drugs, their body has become physically dependent. Withdrawal syndrome is seen when a person abruptly discontinues use of that substance. Both illegal and prescription drugs can induce withdrawal symptoms, which can persist anywhere from two days to several weeks. Although the physical side effects from dependence usually subside after a week, …

Ask anyone who’s ever gone through it, and they’ll tell you– opioid withdrawal is an agony like no other. In fact, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say that opioid withdrawal is one of the most distressing conditions a human being can experience. Depending on the level of abuse, the symptoms associated with the abrupt cessation of opioid …

If you or someone you love is currently struggling with a substance abuse disorder, this is probably a question you’ve wondered about for a long time. If so, you’re certainly not alone. In the following sections, we’ll have a look at this rather thorny question. Problem Use Vs. Addiction Before we can address the question of ‘curing’ addiction properly, there …

If you want to know how to overcome benzo addiction, start at the beginning. The first thing you will likely need is a safe and comfortable medical detox. This is especially important when it comes to benzos like Xanax or Klonopin. The reason is that benzo withdrawal is one of the few types of withdrawal that can be potentially fatal. …