If I’m Taking Suboxone®, Can I Really be in Recovery?

If I’m Taking Suboxone®, Can I Really be in Recovery?

The answer to this question depends on whom you ask. There are those who define recovery as the complete abstinence from any mind-altering drugs. And Suboxone®, a medication that combines the opioid buprenorphine with the blocker naloxone, does activate opioid...
I Think my Coworker May Have an Addiction

I Think my Coworker May Have an Addiction

Here’s the scenario: Your coworker is exhibiting uncharacteristic behavior at work and you are concerned it may possibly be an addiction problem. It could be to alcohol, prescription or nonprescription drugs or even a behavioral addiction to gaming, gambling or sex....
Isn’t Suboxone® Just Trading One Drug for Another?

Isn’t Suboxone® Just Trading One Drug for Another?

Phillipa has been part of our practice for many years. She has as tough an Addiction Story as any I’ve heard. From getting a taste of hydrocodone as a teenager, she moved on to oxycodone, and finally to a fierce heroin habit which lasted for many years. She burned...
You Have The Choice To Continue Using Heroin

You Have The Choice To Continue Using Heroin

Is the Opioid Crisis responsible for helping to mobilize some of the greatest new approaches to help people change? Or have these great techniques been brewing under the surface, being applied to different problems and issues, highlighted now because of the vast...