Buyer Beware – Fentanyl Can Be In Any Street Drugs

Buyer Beware – Fentanyl Can Be In Any Street Drugs

Often, I feel like the only thing I have been writing and teaching about the last few months is how bad fentanyl really is, how many people it is killing, and how it is increasingly becoming an alarming and dangerous situation. Nonetheless, I still feel compelled to...
Energy After Heroin Detox – And Then Some

Energy After Heroin Detox – And Then Some

It was a pretty typical day at the Coleman Institute. Patients were being seen in various stages of recovery: a patient at the beginning of a detox off Opana®, another a few days into a detox off Xanax®, a person scheduled to get Vivitrol but who had relapsed on...
An Overdose Can Be An Opportunity

An Overdose Can Be An Opportunity

The sad fact is that there are thousands of overdoses happening in the US every day. For the last year or so, over 120 of these daily overdoses were fatal, but there were many more where the person survived. They are unintentional overdoses, and are truly near-death...
The Painful Isolation of Addiction

The Painful Isolation of Addiction

The theme of Connectedness is permeating much of what I am reading and listening to these days…and how disconnection and isolation is such a hallmark of the patients with addiction we treat every day at the Coleman Institute. This powerful isolation-belief can lead to...
How Pain Perpetuates Addiction

How Pain Perpetuates Addiction

My good friend sends me articles she reads that have to do with addiction. This morning she sent me a quick story from the New York Times that describes a woman’s experience of having surgery in Germany: “After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea.”...