Category: Addiction Treatment

Methadone has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in treating opioid addiction. However, several medical facilities in Los Angeles have been hesitant to prescribe it to their patients. Without proper management, recovering opioid addicts risk replacing opiates with methadone. These facilities have concerns over the addictive nature of methadone, especially …

Government Authorities all over the world have made Heroin illegal because it is a highly addictive drug. Morphine is used to process heroin. The source of morphine is seed pods harvested from poppy plants. Heroin is cut with powdered milk, starch, quinine or sugars to form either a brown or white powder.  Heroin is very …

Benzodiazepine rehab is a sequence of addiction treatment programs to help patients to recover from benzodiazepine addiction. The first program in the sequence is medical detox. It would be best if you had the expertise of medical professionals to oversee the medical detox. The essence of medical detox is to remove the benzodiazepines out of …

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness characterized by psychological instability. Patients will experience mood swings and dramatic changes in behavior, judgment, emotional state, and cognitive functioning.  It takes these patients a few days to a few weeks to move from a depressed state to a manic state. This period depends on how the bipolar episodes …

Suboxone is a compound of Naloxone and buprenorphine. The compound makes a useful medicine to detox from opioid and narcotic pain reliever addiction. Naloxone will help suboxone to reverse the effects of the drugs on the brain. Buprenorphine, on the other hand, helps to ease the withdrawal symptoms on the patient.   Suboxone is known to …

Effects of Using Cocaine Cocaine use increases the risks of heart attacks, strokes, seizures, and other serious ailments. There are many other effects cocaine users should be aware of no matter if they’ve tried it once or have been abusing cocaine for some time. Long-term cocaine use can also cause significant damage to many parts …