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Jan 22
Accelerated Opioid Detox: Explained Using the Coleman Method
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 here to help. What I'd like to do is explain to you exactly how we do our accelerated opioid detox. Because I find that when family members and patients really understand what we're doing, it helps them move through the process because it makes sense to them.
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Jan 22
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 physicians from certain requirements needed to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment.
Since 2020, more than 83,000 drug overdoses have occurred in the United States, the highest number ever recorded in a 12-month period according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The increase in overdose fatalities only signifies the need for treatment services to be more accessible for people at risk and this action will expand access to availability of treatments (such as buprenorphine) for opioid use disorder treatment
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Jan 22
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 they don't know is that although it may feel impossible to resist the impulse, you can treat opioid addiction.
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Jan 22
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 experience a strong sensation of pleasure and, of course, we will want to repeat that experience.
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Jan 22