How Effective is Vivitrol® for Relapse Prevention?
Medication-assisted treatment offers patients with substance use disorder numerous options when choosing the medicines that will help...
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- Jun 26, 2020
The Transition from Recreational Drug Use to Addiction
Most people come across opportunities to use substances recreationally or socially more than a handful of times in their lives. The...
- Jun 19, 2020
Switching from Methadone to Suboxone®
Moving on from daily methadone can be difficult, but the transition from methadone to Suboxone® can help people who want to make the...
- Jun 12, 2020
How Improving your Sleep can Help Recovery?
Sleep is restorative and healing, making it an essential part of successful substance use disorder treatment. Attaining quality sleep is...
- Jun 5, 2020
What is Medical Withdrawal?
Sometimes, the best path to recovery for a person with opioid use disorder may entail a supervised medical withdrawal used to minimize...
- May 29, 2020
Improving Nutrition in Recovery
Substance use disorder can significantly impact overall wellness, especially the many kinds of nutritional deficiencies that can occur....
- May 18, 2020
Enabling Behavior and How to Stop It
When a loved one is struggling with substance use disorder, it can be hard to find the best way to help them without hurting them....
- May 11, 2020
Mental Health Awareness Month during a Pandemic
Mental Health Awareness Month takes place in May, making this month an opportune time to focus on aspects of mental health that are most...
- May 4, 2020
Working through Substance Use Trauma during the Pandemic
Many people who go through substance use disorder treatment at a methadone clinic discover that underlying and unaddressed trauma they’ve...
- Apr 24, 2020
Simple Ways to become more Mindful in Recovery
Treatment allows the mind to focus more consciously on recovery, removing the fog drugs can cause in the brain. Many people benefit...
- Apr 17, 2020
Preventing Addiction while Taking Opioid Medication: Changes to Prescription Practices
The opioid epidemic in America can largely be traced back to millions of patients being over-prescribed powerful painkillers like...
- Apr 10, 2020
Importance of MAT in Jails & Prisons
Many people who find themselves in the throes of addiction are also, unfortunately, dealing with other issues like legal trouble and...
- Apr 3, 2020
Facts about taking Suboxone® for Addiction Treatment
People seeking medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder will have the option to take a number of medications, including...
- Mar 20, 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease 2019: How to Stay Safe
The media whirlwind concerning the current outbreak of COVID-19 has been nothing short of overwhelming. With social media giving us...
- Mar 14, 2020
How to Handle Drug-Related Arrests and Incarceration
If you are a first-time offender who was arrested and will possibly be indicted on drug-related charges, you may be unclear as to what...
- Mar 6, 2020
Addiction vs. Dependence
Addicted or dependent? Are they the same thing, or are they two different animals? Well, that depends on who you are talking to. To the...
- Feb 28, 2020
Guide to Rewiring your Brain in Recovery
Science has discovered amazing things that are beyond even your wildest imagination, but surprisingly, we still know very little about...
- Feb 21, 2020
Chronic Addiction Relapse and Long-Term Treatment
Relapse is often seen as a part of recovery that can be devastating, but the instances are more like road bumps rather than dead ends....
- Feb 14, 2020
Addiction and Women: Improving Treatment Options
Looking at addiction with a lens focused on the differences between genders makes the disease much more complex. The minimal past...
- Feb 7, 2020
How to Handle a Sibling's Addiction
Watching a loved one go through the perils of addiction is devastating, especially when it’s your immediate family. In many cases,...
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