Help Me, Please! My Doctor Won’t Stop Prescribing Pain Medication
by The Coleman Institute | Jul 26, 2019
This was the call I received from a woman who was desperate to get off her opioid pain medication. To protect her privacy, her name has been changed for the purpose of this post. Janine is a 52-year-old woman who had her first surgery in her late twenties for a...
A Moral Failing Or A Brain That Needs Healing?
by The Coleman Institute | Mar 12, 2019
For those of you interested in learning more about how addiction specifically affects the brain, I encourage you to watch Dr. Kevin McCauley’s movies and YouTube presentations. Dr. McCauley was an Air Force surgeon who became addicted to pain medications after he went...We Can Help
Give us a call today to get started on the road to recovery.
If you would rather have our office contact you at a later date, please click on the link below to schedule a time for us to call you back.
Blog Archive
2019
- The Power of Gratitude
- Memes as a Recovery Tool
- My Patient’s Most Shameful Secret
- How Important Are The Medical Staff In An Opioid Detox?
- Getting Off Opiates Quickly
- What To Know About Boosting Energy After Stopping Opioid Medication
- How Do I Get Off Methadone?
- There Are Alternatives to Using Suboxone to Stop Pain Medications and Withdrawal
- Opioids, Tobacco, and Relapse
- The Single Most Important Thing to Know When Detoxing off Opioids, Alcohol, or Benzos
- "I'm A Slave to my Fentanyl Patch"
- Over Sixty, Finally Sober: An Interview With An Alcohol Detox Patient
- The Single Most Terrifying Thing About Admitting You Are Addicted To Opioids
- Hospice Care and an Addiction Treatment Clinic
- Focused Goals Help To Restore Energy After Opioid Detox
- Switching from Suboxone® to Naltrexone
- Beyond the Opioid Detox: 6 Ways to Reboot Your Body’s Energy
- The Easiest and Fastest Way to Detox Off Opioids
- Pain Medicine: Is it Skewing Your Priorities?
- Healing the Brain After Opioid Detox and Withdrawal
- Is Rapid Opioid Detox Really Too Good To Be True?
- Heroin and Other Opiates are Very Powerful Emotional Pain Killers
- Parents' Ultimatum: Stop The Heroin Or Go To Jail
- The Myth of the 'Functioning Alcoholic'
- I'm Addicted But I'm Not An Addict
- Help Me, Please! My Doctor Won't Stop Prescribing Pain Medication
- The Millennial Addict: A Double Serving of Selfish
- If I’m Taking Suboxone®, Can I Really be in Recovery?
- Five Ways to Boost Energy After Opioid Withdrawal
- Low Energy After Opioid Withdrawal: Expectations vs. Reality
- I Think my Coworker May Have an Addiction
- Isn’t Suboxone® Just Trading One Drug for Another?
- Can I Use Kratom To Detox Off Heroin?
- My Doctor Refuses To Prescribe My Pain Medication!
- You Can End Your Fentanyl Addiction Over This 4th of July Holiday!
- Restoring Energy After Opioid Withdrawal
- 5 Things To Remember If Your Kid Is Using Heroin
- You Have The Choice To Continue Using Heroin
- Great Reasons to Keep Using Opioids
- Overcoming Addiction: An Interview with Dr. Coleman
- Evidence-Based, Medication-Assisted Treatment: Suboxone® or Naltrexone?
- Restoring Energy After Getting Off Opioids
- Questioning Your Beliefs About Substance Use
- How to Avoid Opioid Use Relapse
- Do This One Thing to Stay Off Opioids Forever
- The Easiest Way EVER to Get Off Opioids
- Falling in Love with My Pillow (and Other Benefits of Sobriety)
- Why Should I Use Naltrexone After I Get Off Suboxone®?
- A Moral Failing Or A Brain That Needs Healing?
- Curbing the Cravings: Naltrexone and Addiction
- What to Expect When Detoxing from Opioids
- Has Your Drinking Crossed the Line?
- Addiction Kills Connections
- Hopeless To Hopeful – Two Guys and a Year Of Sobriety
- Supporting a Loved One Through Opioid Addiction and Recovery
2018
- Recovery Month 2018
- Anesthesia Detox - Yesterday’s Treatment!
- The Most Important Qualities Your Opioid Detox Facility Should Provide
- Insurance Companies Are Recognizing Our Value
- Top Five Reasons Our Patients Choose Opioid Detox At The Coleman Institute
- How Can I Avoid The Pain of Heroin Withdrawal?
- Buyer Beware – Fentanyl Can Be In Any Street Drugs
- Cocaine Laced with Fentanyl
- 4 Things To Consider Before Stopping Your Benzodiazepine
- Energy After Heroin Detox - And Then Some
- What's the Difference Between Using Naltrexone and Buprenorphine?
- An Overdose Can Be An Opportunity
- The Painful Isolation of Addiction
- How Pain Perpetuates Addiction
- Dual Diagnosis: Addiction and Bipolar Disorder
2017
- Naltrexone: Medication-Assisted Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder
- Towing and Recovery
- The Landmark X:BOT Study Has Now Been Published
- Holiday Detox
- Detox With Compassion and Competence: Fentanyl, Heroin and Methadone
- Staying Sober During The Holidays
- Thanksgiving Detox - The Coleman Way
- 28 Reasons To Use Long-Acting Naltrexone
- How Did We Get Here?
- Rapid Opiate Detox, Accelerated Opiate Detox and Ultra-Rapid Detox
- Rapid Opiate Detox: Too Good To Be True?
- Is Pot Safe?
- Medically-Assisted Treatment for Buprenorphine Use
- Patients Love Our Medically-Assisted Treatment
- How Much Pain Does It Take Before Someone Stops?
- Non-Addictive Medical Treatment for Opioid Dependence
- Medically Assisted Treatment for Opana® Withdrawal
- Roxicodone Detox Treatment
- No One Made Me Come To Treatment
- Staying Comfortable During Alcohol Detox
- The Ecstasy of Detachment
- Changing the Brain after Opioid Detox
- The Water Wheel
- Avoiding Dependency and Addiction if Opiate Painkillers are Prescribed
- Carrots, Garlic, and Mostly Love
- Feeding The Tiger
- The Soul in Hiding
- Bring It Home - Please Spread The Word
- A Drug-Free Dad
- From Anxiety to Peace
2016
- Season's Greetings
- Living in Recovery: A Holiday Survival Guide
- Happiness in Recovery: One Patient's Experience
- When Surgery and Substance Use Disorder Collide
- Access To The Soul
- The Lighthouse
- Success Story: Airport Encounter
- Naltrexone Therapy Might Be The Right Choice
- Escaping Pain With Opiates
- Help for Chronic Pain Patients
- Post-Opioid Detox Peace
- New Suboxone Limits for Physicians
- Medication-Assisted Treatment - MAT
- Online Porn May Damage Teenage Brains
- Expecting Miracles
- The New Fentanyl Epidemic
- Probuphine - A New Buprenorphine Implant
- Dopamine: “The Anticipation Molecule”
- 6 Ways to Keep your Resolution for Sobriety