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Opioid Risk Factors. How Pain Can Lead to Addiction. Assess Your Risks!
Should you take opioids? Pain and addiction go hand-in-hand. Learn why pain ups addiction risks and who’s most at risk to develop a problem.
Addiction Treatment Options for Opioid Addicted Chronic Pain Patients
Three opioid addiction treatment options for people with chronic pain – including options for people who still need opioids for analgesia.
15 Signs Your Opioid Use Is Becoming Opioid Abuse
Do you use opioids (or does someone you love)? It’s so easy to slide from responsible use to dangerous misuse. Test yourself to make sure you’re not falling into addiction.
Passionflower to Treat Opiate Withdrawal Symptoms
Learn more about this herbal medicine that’s research-proven to reduce the agitation, irritability, insomnia and anxiety of an opiate withdrawal.
Vicodin Addiction – Pain Management during Opiate Tapering
Tips for controlling chronic pain while tapering off Vicodin, such as: an example tapering schedule, experts that can help, alternate forms of analgesia, helpful lifestyle changes and more.
A 15 Point Plan to Succeeding with Methadone or Suboxone
Using or thinking about using Suboxone or methadone? Work through the 15 recovery steps outlined in this article and greatly increase your odds of long-term success.
OxyContin Addiction Treatment
You can break free from an OxyContin addiction, people do it every day - but if you’re like the vast majority, you will need addiction treatment to do so and you may want to consider using medications like Suboxone or methadone that greatly increase your odds of longer term success and recovery.
How Long to Stay on Suboxone – Advice from a Suboxone Doc
Four pieces of advice on how long you’ll need to use Suboxone from one of America’s leading experts on the use of the drug.
Heroin Addiction: Physical Dependence + Addiction Brain Changes = A Tough Drug to Beat
Withdrawal symptoms don't tell the whole story. Learn why persistent cravings make heroin so tough to quit.
Methadone: Are You Ready to Start Tapering? Take This Self-Test and Find Out
Start tapering before you’re ready and your odds of success aren’t great. Take this 16 question self test and find out if you're ready to start reducing your daily dose.
11 Reasons Why Teens Abuse Prescription Opiates – And How Parents Can Prevent It
From a study of thousands of adolescent opiate users we learn the 11 most common reasons why teens abuse pain pills. Ultimately it all comes down to easy availability and misperceptions about consequences and safety.
Choosing an Intervention Professional in the Opioid Epidemic Age
Today, with the voracious nature of the opioid epidemic spreading like wildfire all across the country, well-trained Intervention professionals are needed now more than ever before.