4 Things To Consider Before Stopping Your Benzodiazepine
1. Go slow or go fast, either way, be prepared for inevitable side effects. Getting off benzos such as Ativan®, Xanax®, and Klonopin® is tough. Detailed methods for slow weaning abound, but that doesn’t guarantee a symptom-free withdrawal. Several of...
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...
What’s the Difference Between Using Naltrexone and Buprenorphine?
I started a new patient, Jimmy, for his Accelerated Opioid Detox today. He thought he was coming off heroin, but his urine also revealed fentanyl…almost a daily occurrence now at the Coleman Institute. He was here with his father, Bob, who didn’t really...
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...
