Addiction Recovery Blog
You Can’t Stop Addiction with Misinformation (And You Shouldn’t Try)
Liberal San Francisco has voted to ban the sale of e-cigarettes next year until and unless the US Food and Drug Administration considers them safe. If you are surprised that they were not already evaluated by the FDA, you’re not alone. According to some sources, the...
Some Addiction Triggered by Pain Meds
One of the problems with curbing the opioid epidemic is the problem of pain. Opioids are addictive, and some people take them for illicit reasons of pleasure rather than medically necessary reasons, but opioids can help manage pain. If there were no legitimate uses...
Opioid-free Pain Management is Possible
It is hard to put the genie back in the bottle. So too, with the opioid epidemic. Opioids used to be mostly prescribed for short-term acute pain or cancer patients. Then the big pharmaceutical companies lobbied hard for their newer, supposedly “safer” opioids to be...
Main Differences Between Fentanyl and Oxycodone
Fentanyl and oxycodone are both opioid medications. Some of the other opioids include codeine, morphine, heroin, and others as well. The natural opioids are derivatives from a poppy plant. The synthetic opioids are made to have the same sort of effects as the...
Drug Relapse Overdose Kills Columbine Survivor
Twenty years after the Columbine school shootings, the tragedy has taken another life. Austin Eubanks, 37, died of an opioid overdose last week. Eubanks was in recovery from injuries suffered in the shootings, the trauma of seeing his best friend killed, and opioid...
Adderall IR and XR: What’s the Difference?
Adderall the brand name for the drug combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, a stimulant medication commonly prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It is also sometimes used to treat narcolepsy. It is a Schedule II drug,...
Dangers of the World’s 8 Most Addictive Substances
Addictive substances are everywhere, from the ingredients in the foods and drinks we consume, to other products we use on our bodies or breathe in daily. Here is a list of some of the most common and highly addictive substances and their effects: [toc] 1. Heroin...
Substance Use Rehab Takes Backseat to Profits for Big Pharma, Generics
The cost of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for drug addiction may be going down as two generic versions of the popular Suboxone sublingual film were approved for sale in February. That’s not guaranteed in the long run. Generic drugs are drugs whose patent has...
Dab: What Is It and How Are People Abusing It?
Dabbing is becoming more popular all over the country. This is mostly because people are choosing it as a different method of using marijuana. It has become especially popular in states where marijuana is legal. [toc] Defining Dabbing Dabbing is when a person inhales...
Length of Time Cocaine Stays in System When Mixed with Other Drugs or Alcohol
In the majority of cases, cocaine won’t stay in someone’s system for too long. This is especially true if cocaine is the only drug the user has taken. A drug’s half-life is the length of time it will take for the drug’s levels in the body to be cut down by half of...