What Is Lean? Understanding Purple Drank

What Is Lean? Understanding Purple Drank

Lean, also known as purple drank, sizzurp, dirty Sprite, barre, or simply syrup, is a recreational drug made by mixing prescription cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine with a soft drink, most commonly Sprite or other lemon-lime soda, and sometimes adding...
How Long Do Opioids Stay In Your System?

How Long Do Opioids Stay In Your System?

Opioids encompass a wide range of substances, including powerful prescription medications like fentanyl, oxycodone and hydrocodone, as well as illicit drugs such as heroin or street fentanyl. Each opioid has unique characteristics, including varying half-lives and...
A Fast and Easy Way to Detox off Opioids

A Fast and Easy Way to Detox off Opioids

These were not my words, but the words of a patient who completed a 5-day opioid detox with us a few weeks ago. A couple of years ago, his detox would probably have been 3 days—he believed he was using a gram or a gram and a half of heroin a day—but when fentanyl was...
10 Best Songs for Addiction Recovery Motivation

10 Best Songs for Addiction Recovery Motivation

The power of music has been leveraged in healing since at least the fifth and fourth century B.C., and is known to have been used in ancient Greece. Famous Greek philosophers Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Plato were some of the earliest to acknowledge the healing power...