The Coleman Institute Blog

As the Coleman Institute has evolved into treating addiction with a wider spectrum of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) options, I see more people who haven't exactly hit rock bottom, but they don't want to find that place.

Currently, we offer treatment using many different options for those with opioid use addiction and every patient's situation is unique. Whether you are struggling addiction problems - the wanting, the craving, the never-quite-getting enough, the lying, the spending, sickness of withdrawal - or fear of the sickness of withdrawal - treatment is available for you.

This may not be what you would expect to read in a blog of an addiction treatment program but opioids are my best friend right now. You see, my father in law is dying. Sure, he’s 95, but a month ago he was working and driving! And yet here he lies at a beautiful hospice house high up on a hill beyond a Home Depot and Costco. Life goes on down there.

I am in the luxurious position of spending most of my time doing exactly what I want to do. Of course, there are still toilets to clean, laundry, bills and taxes, but I love my day job and spend my free time cooking good stuff, doing yoga, practicing calligraphy and hanging with friends and family.

I am going to change the details for my patient’s confidentiality, but the basic story is spot on.

Alana, a beautiful 23-year-old woman who lives far away from Richmond, VA, convinced her mother to bring her to the Coleman Institute for Addiction Medicine to help her stop using opioids.

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 about this young woman, I think I’m most taken by the intensity she continues to put into her commitment to stay off drugs.