April 29, 2009

  • Is Suboxone the Answer to the Crisis of Opiate Addiction?

    Abdel Fahmy asked: In the past few months 100s of fatalities spread across the nation from heroin overdose. The states most affected by those tragedies included Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. This surge in fatalities was due toFentanyl Laced heroin! A new tactic adopted by drug dealers to drag people [...]

April 27, 2009

  • At Home Versus Drug Rehabs for Detox from PainKillers Addiction

    Abdel Fahmy asked: Patients who face the disease of addiction to painkillers have a few options to choose from. I will briefly touch on most of them but will focus on the 2 modalities that are mentioned above.In my view the treatment options are divided into 3 main categories: 1-medically monitered withdrawal (i.e. detox), 2-maintenance [...]

April 21, 2009

  • Pain Killer Addiction - Help Finding A Way Out Now

    Helen Hecker asked: Although detoxification is not a treatment for pain killer addiction, it can help relieve withdrawal symptoms while the patient adjusts to being free of pain killers or other prescription drugs. Addiction is both a biological and psychological condition. There are a number of effective treatment options to treat pain killer addiction to [...]

April 1, 2009

  • Buprenorphine Changing the Way We Look at Addiction

    Abdel Fahmy asked: As I have mentioned in several of my previous articles, addiction to opiates is chronic disease of the brain and should be managed as such. It is usually the result of a combination of by genetic, psychosocial and environmental factors that ultimately lead to the development of this relapsing disease. Now that [...]

March 31, 2009

  • Opiate Addiction Is Overcome With Commitment And Support

    Ray La Foy asked:
    Make no mistake. Opiates are some of the most difficult drugs in the world to detox successfully from. The powerful drug family is derived from the opium poppy and it creates such drugs as heroin and morphine. Detox from this particular class of drugs isn’t like quitting coffee cold turkey either. [...]