Isn’t Suboxone® Just Trading One Drug for Another?
by The Coleman Institute | Jul 8, 2019
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...We Can Help
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Blog Archive
2019
- Newly Sober During the Holidays
- 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