by Andrew Blake | Jan 18, 2022
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...
by The Coleman Institute | Jan 18, 2022
Here at the Coleman Institute, we know that drug addiction is a disease. It’s not your fault, but it’s devastating and it affects an awful lot of people. Since 2002, we’ve helped over 8,500 people successfully detox off of drugs or opioids and we’re...
by Andrew Blake | Jan 16, 2022
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...
by The Coleman Institute | Jan 15, 2022
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...
by The Coleman Institute | Jan 14, 2022
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...