Posts Tagged ‘Another’
Heroin Claims Another Victim and a Family Wonders Why – Patriot Ledger
Heroin Detox: Heroin claims another victim and a family wonders why – Patriot Ledger
And there was the angry, desperate Peter, overcome by drug addiction – cocaine, then heroin – in and out of detox, courtrooms and shelters, what his mother describes as a rehab “frequent flyer.” For more than a decade, his life was a cycle of …
Heroin Detox – Bing News
Heroin Detox: New Approach At The Suboxone Detox Florida Center Provides Great Results – PR-USA.net
… are hailing this new Suboxone detox Florida methodology and Outpatient detox services also offered for better living. This Florida drug rehabilitation center is treating Heroin addiction with a lot of success. Heroin addiction has over the years …
Heroin Detox – Bing News
Heroin Detox: Bob Hawke’s wife and daughter in airport fight – ninemsn
She was also upset that d’Alpuget put the public spotlight back on her sister Rosslyn’s battle with heroin addiction in the 1980s … According to her business website, she was later hospitalised to “detox from medications that had gotten wildly out …
Heroin Detox – Bing News
Heroin Addiction: Kiss Another Day
Heroin Addiction: kiss Another day
I wrote this video about heroin addiction
Heroin Addiction: El Grito de El Paso (The Cry of El Paso)
Editor’s Note: The second of two articles on the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity that culminated in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso last weekend. By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur On Memorial Day, Albuquerque resident Michael Brown embarked on a run of more than 260-miles to the US-Mexico border. The long-distance runner […]
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Heroin Addiction: Methadone: Drug Treatment or Just Another Addiction?
Drug addiction to Opiates (Oxycontin, Vicodin, Heroin, etc) is one of the hardest to overcome. The physical withdrawals resemble a severe case of the flu that can last for several days, and many addicts immediately revert to drugs or find themselves rushing to the methadone clinic to ease their symptoms. Drug treatment, however, which hands out another highly addictive opiate doesn’t make sense.
Methadone, a synthetic form of an opioid, acts much like heroin. It inhibits the opioid receptors in the brain. Where heroin releases an abundance of dopamine in the system and creates a euphoric high from this same receptor, methadone blocks the high and reduces the withdrawal symptoms from heroin. In this way, methadone has proven to be an effective form of drug treatment. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Fact Sheet on methadone, “Methadone is a rigorously, well-tested medication that is safe and efficacious for the treatment of narcotic withdrawal and dependence.”