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Nov 17
Thanksgiving Detox – The Coleman Way
There are multiple suggestions for detoxing after indulging in the overabundance of food and drink that many people experience during the Thanksgiving holidays. Warm water plus lemon, drinking green juice, using a body brush, yoga, and meditation are a few. While all of these may be great idea for a post holiday detox, I just want to make you aware that if you or a loved one needs help detoxing off opioids, The Coleman Institute is available 365 days a year to help you.
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Oct 17
How Did We Get Here?
It should be no surprise to anyone reading this that we are in the middle of the worst opioid epidemic to ever strike our country. Thanks to fentanyl (a powerful synthetic opioid), the 2016 mortality figures are even worse than 2015 – over 60,000 deaths. To put this in perspective, there were more overdose deaths in that one year than the entire Vietnam war! How did we possibly get here?
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Oct 17
Rapid Opiate Detox, Accelerated Opiate Detox and Ultra-Rapid Detox
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Oct 17
Rapid Opiate Detox: Too Good To Be True?
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Aug 17
Is Pot Safe?
In the last 10 years or so, we have embarked on a big experiment in this country - by allowing much easier access to marijuana.
There are many reasons this has happened. We have come to believe that marijuana is not really that dangerous - a lot safer than alcohol, which of course is legal and quite available. We have also come to believe we could cut out the black market if pot became legal, and we could even generate significant tax dollars if it were legal. Finally, we believe that anyone who wants to get pot will already get it, so legalization won’t really encourage anyone to use it who wasn’t going to use it anyway - and that overall consumption levels will stay the same.
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