Isn’t Suboxone® Just Trading One Drug for Another?

Isn’t Suboxone® Just Trading One Drug for Another?

Phillipa has been part of our practice for many years. She has as tough an Addiction Story as any I’ve heard. From getting a taste of hydrocodone as a teenager, she moved on to oxycodone, and finally to a fierce heroin habit which lasted for many years. She burned...
You Have The Choice To Continue Using Heroin

You Have The Choice To Continue Using Heroin

Is the Opioid Crisis responsible for helping to mobilize some of the greatest new approaches to help people change? Or have these great techniques been brewing under the surface, being applied to different problems and issues, highlighted now because of the vast...
Great Reasons to Keep Using Opioids

Great Reasons to Keep Using Opioids

As I tell my patients all the time: you didn’t use drugs because you were ignorant, you used drugs because they were helping you with something. Until they weren’t. As Russell Brand, the British comedian, author, and activist says, “A counselor at the treatment centre...
Overcoming Addiction: An Interview with Dr. Coleman

Overcoming Addiction: An Interview with Dr. Coleman

There is never a shortage of material to use for writing a blog article for the Coleman Institute. Inspiration swirls around me in the form of patients who are discovering the amazing freedom they have found in recovery, community support around recovery that...