The Single Most Terrifying Thing About Admitting You Are Addicted To Opioids
As the Richmond office of Coleman Institute for Addiction Medicine has evolved into treating addiction with a wider spectrum of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) options,* I see more people who haven’t exactly hit bottom (whatever that subjective term may mean), but...
Focused Goals Help To Restore Energy After Opioid 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...
The Easiest and Fastest Way to Detox Off Opioids
These were not my words, but the words of a patient who completed a 5-day opioid detox with us a few weeks ago. A couple of years ago, his detox would probably have been 3 days—he believed he was using a gram or a gram and a half of heroin a day—but when fentanyl was...
Parents’ Ultimatum: Stop The Heroin Or Go To Jail
I interviewed Caylee for this blog article. Caylee has been coming to the Coleman Institute for Addiction Medicine for several years now for long-acting naltrexone treatments. She has close to four years of sobriety under her belt, and although many things impress me...
