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Opioid overdoses increased 30 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Given everything we now know, that’s…
When choosing an opiate addiction treatment program, there are several important characteristics you need to consider. These include, but are not limited to, the following:…
By the end of 2019, fatal opioid misuse was already rising in Colorado. In 2018, there were 543 reported opioid deaths involving either prescription or illicit narcotics….
It’s a story that pretty much begins and ends with pain. Fentanyl is a medicine originally used to treat patients with severe pain, especially after…
Your head starts to slowly feel an overwhelming sense of pleasure, as a warmth starts to radiate from the center of your body. This is…
CBD is the hot new health and wellness product lining store shelves and being advertised all over the internet. From relaxing oils and tasty gummies…
Opioid addiction isn’t a new phenomenon in America despite all the news of the recent opioid epidemic. If you wind back the clocks to the…
Let’s face it, dating is a mess. From creating attractive online dating profiles to attempting to decipher all the different signals someone is sending your…
Short for detoxification, “detox” is a period of time where you aim to rid yourself of toxic, unhealthy substances like alcohol, opioids and heroin. Depending…
In the right hands and under the right circumstances, fentanyl is a beneficial drug that can prevent people from feeling excruciating pain. For example, fentanyl…
Alcohol kills an estimated 88,000 people a year, while just over 15,000 people died after overdosing on heron in 2017. Heroin can kill you in…
A lot of us used to think that painkillers weren’t so dangerous. They do, after all, come from a pharmacy. By now, we all know…
Comedians Chris Farley and John Belushi died from them, as did musician Chris Kelly and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. A speedball is regarded as one…
Overdoses in libraries. A burgeoning homeless population. Thousands of needles turned in at the Harm Reduction Action Center. The opioid epidemic has hit the…
Tom Petty understood addiction all too well. “You start losing your soul,” he told his friend Warren Zanes, who wrote “Petty: The Biography.” “Using heroin…
Opioids and opiates affect millions each year. While not widely known, there are many differences between opioids and opiates, with one major thing in common:…
Kratom is a plant that grows in southeast Asia. For centuries, natives have chewed the leaves or used them to make tea. The result? Some…
91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you know anything at all about…
Of the 500,000 people who died from drug overdoses over the last 15 years, opioids account for the majority of those deaths. Since 1999, opioid-related…
Suboxone contains two chemicals; buprenorphine and naloxone. By most definitions, buprenorphine is a narcotic (including tablet or sublingual buprenorphine used for opioid dependence ). However,…
Heroin addiction is like a lens that zooms in on its subject. Eventually, there’s nothing left in the picture except for the drug. Family and…
One person can take prescription painkillers for decades without any problems, while another can become addicted in a matter of weeks. No one can tell…
You probably want to know what rehab at The Raleigh House will be like. Unfortunately, we can’t tell you. That’s because every single person who…
Think back a couple of decades. Probably, you’d never heard of Vicodin or Percocet. You likely didn’t know anyone who was addicted to painkillers. And…
The numbers are scary: Heroin-related deaths doubled in the state of Colorado, increasing from 79 in 2011 to 160 in 2015. And the highest rates…
Carfentanil, also known as carfentanyl, is a synthetic opioid related to morphine, heroin and fentanyl. It is one of the strongest opioids in commercial production,…
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