When Does Energy Come Back After Opioid (Pain Medication) Withdrawal?
Brenda is a 54-year-old woman who told me, “I am so sick and tired of being dependent on pain medication, I could scream.” She tried several times to stop taking her medication. She would get so far before the withdrawal became intolerable. One of her biggest problems...
5 Goals for Substance Abuse Recovery After Detox
I wrote about Ken in an earlier blog titled “Restoring Energy After Opioid Withdrawal.” At that time, Ken was 5 weeks out from completing an Accelerated Opiate Detox off high doses of opioids, including hydromorphone and fentanyl. His energy was beginning...
Accelerated Opioid Detox: Explained Using the Coleman Method
Here at the Coleman Institute, we know that drug addiction is a disease. It’s not your fault, but it’s devastating and it affects an awful lot of people. Since 2002, we’ve helped over 8,500 people successfully detox off of drugs or opioids and we’re...
Changing Behavior To Stop Opioid Use
An estimated 2 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder related to opioid pain medications. To put that into perspective, that is 1 in every 13 individuals. Too often these people suffering from addiction feel as if there is no way out. What...
