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These are the words I heard from a middle-aged patient who came into the office a few weeks ago. He said to me: "I hate it. Every 3 days I have to re-apply my Fentanyl patch and I can’t stand the fact that I am a slave to it. All of my doctors tell me that I should just stay on this medicine, but I just don't want to live this way anymore. I feel like I am living my life in some kind of a shadow."

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With the goal of interviewing people who have inspired me during my tenure at the Coleman Institute, this month’s interview is with Walter. I have organized my interviews around author Annie Grace’s trifecta of ACT: Awareness, Clarity, and Turnaround. In her 2018 book The Alcohol Experiment, she encourages people to use these steps to explore their own relationship with alcohol. (more…)

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.

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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.

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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.

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