Our approach to addiction is woefully obsolete. Research demonstrates that there are no evil spirit drugs. Nor are addicts naturally deficient. Nature has provided all of us with the capacity to wind up snared—and we as a whole take part…
Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by compulsive, or uncontrollable, drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences and changes in the brain, which can be long-lasting. These changes in the brain can lead to the harmful behaviors seen in…
Some of the reasons the relapse rate is so high in an outpatient drug detox program are due to lack of structure for the patient, not to mention, any unusual withdrawal symptoms that might arise when the outpatient detox program…
For many years, health care providers like me were told that we were undertreating pain and that pain was a vital sign that needed to be measured. Concurrently, we were reassured that opioids were a safe and effective way to…
There are many forms of addiction, thus recovery is also different for every addiction. There are supervised, intensive programs conducted by Rehabs (a center for drug addicts) to recover from addiction and live a healthy life. Rehab helps people to…
Recovery from drug addiction is undoubtedly a time-taking process. There exist various assistance programs to aid the suffering addicts. However, there are certain misconceptions prevailing in the society that undermine addiction recovery. Following are 5 addiction myths that make recovery…