How Can I Avoid The Pain of Heroin Withdrawal?

How Can I Avoid The Pain of Heroin Withdrawal?

Typical scenario at the Coleman Institute: A patient and their support person arrive at the office to begin an accelerated opioid detox from heroin, fentanyl, Dilaudid®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, etc. Many patients also seek our help to come off long-acting MAT...
New Suboxone Limits for Physicians

New Suboxone Limits for Physicians

Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided to publish “Practice and Guidelines for the Administration of Buprenorphine for Treating Opioid Use Disorder” to expand access to medication-assisted treatments (MAT) by exempting...
Changing Behavior To Stop Opioid Use

Changing Behavior To Stop Opioid Use

An estimated 2 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder related to opioid pain medications. To put that into perspective, that is 1 in every 13 individuals. Too often these people suffering from addiction feel as if there is no way out. What...
What Is Dopamine & How Does It Keep Me Using Opioids?

What Is Dopamine & How Does It Keep Me Using Opioids?

What is dopamine? Dopamine is known as a pleasure molecule that is released in the nucleus accumbens area of the brain when we do pleasurable things — like eat food, have sex, or even take prescription opioids (drugs). When dopamine releases in the brain, we...