by The Coleman Institute | Dec 7, 2020
It doesn’t happen like this all the time. But it did happen yesterday. Room to room, patient to patient, over and over—I heard one success story after another. Mack, off fentanyl since mid-April. Sleeping well, doing home renovation projects he’d put off for...
by The Coleman Institute | Dec 1, 2020
This has become a very common scenario and patients from all around the country are calling the Coleman Institute for Addiction Medicine for help. It’s important to understand the
by The Coleman Institute | Nov 23, 2020
Recovery is a lifelong process, fraught with many twists and turns. A friend who has been sober from alcohol for two and a half years told me a story yesterday that brought this point home. She had just renewed her Costco membership and went there for the first time...
by The Coleman Institute | Nov 20, 2020
Patients with Substance Use Disorder may struggle with relapse after surgery. In this article, we discuss how both Al and Paula needed to receive help from the Coleman Institute after having surgery and taking prescribed pain medication. Al A patient we have come to...
by The Coleman Institute | Jul 28, 2020
Consider addiction as an abusive partner. After the novelty wears off, the dynamics and red flags of an unhealthy relationship with a substance come to light – poor communication, controlling behavior, and gaslighting, to name a few. Addiction and Poor Communication...