What’s done is done. It cannot be undone. One of the first things you need to come to terms with when you enter recovery is that the past cannot be remade. The voices (The Committee-you remember The Committee) would like to pull you down with recriminations, useless remorse (addicts are always remorseful), self-pity, and fantasized [...]
Opiate dependence is about a lot more then just using opiates: It has to do with what it is you feel inside that allows opiates to have a SPECIAL EFFECT on you (what I call the POW! Effect”). An effect so powerful, that you almost certainly remember it, from the first time you feel it. [...]
At Reliance Center, the key medication we use to alleviate opiate dependence is Suboxone—the trade name for a combination of two drugs, buprenorphine and naloxone. The buprenorphine alleviates the opiate craving and creates a sense of stability, and the naloxone acts as an opiate antagonist. If you try to use the drug in a way your [...]
Time was when a person taking opiates—whether it was heroin, morphine, or synthetic pain pills—typically had a “spaced out” look that you could easily pick out of a crowd. You know the look: lost in a dream state, stumbling, stoned, drunk-looking, unaware of other people coming or going, possibly even passed out or nodding.
But now, among the new [...]
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Jerry Bayer has a master’s degree in Public Policy from California State University, Sonoma, including a year as a Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley. He started working in the addiction treatment field in 1970 in the Bronx, New York, and has worked at treatment centers across the country designing, developing and evaluating a wide variety of treatment services and programs... - Read More
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