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Suboxone: An Effective Step-Down Detox Agent for Vicodin Addiction
I am addicted to Vicodin and I take about 15 every day. I am worried that I am going to die or wreck my liver and I know I have to stop. I am only 27. I have been using vicodin for about 2 years. I want to know if I should use Suboxone or if I should go to some sort of drug rehab? Which is the better way? I want to get free of all this.
Read answer →Family Recovery: Self Care and Selfishness
My adult daughter has just entered a treatment facility this week for drug addiction. Our family is well aware we have been enablers for many years and allowed the addict to control our lives in many ways, but we are now attempting to get educated about dealing with this disease and how not to enable her further, as well as support her recovery. The facility is 3 hours away from our home and they allow visitation every Saturday. An extended family Christmas get together for my husband's side of the family has been planned for this Saturday and we made plans to attend prior to our daughter's admission so we explained to her we would not be visiting this first Saturday. The following Saturday is Christmas Eve and traditionally we have had my family members in our home for a celebration on Christmas Eve. My husband, mother, and brother have no problem changing our get together to Christmas night so we may visit our daughter in treatment on Christmas Eve, however my other daughter (sibling of the addict) thinks we are changing our tradition to revolve around the addict, which she believes is something we should not do. Rather than viewing this as letting her disease control us, I see changing our normal Christmas plans in order to visit as a way to show support for her recovery. Can you offer your opinion on this matter?
Read answer →Percocet Abuse Is A Form of Opiate Abuse or Dependency
I have been having a lot of fun with percocets for about 6 weeks taking about 50 or 60mgs a day now. So stupid I realize now. I gotta stop this train before things get out of control but I am not sure how to do it best. Should I try to taper down slowly or should I just jump off and get this over with. I'm worried about it. Never went through anything worse than quitting smoking before. Is there any chance I am going to need some sort of detox program after such a short time on percs?
Read answer →Rehab: Recovery is not a Pleasure Ride
There’s a pretty big difference in the cost of different drug rehab programs. My wife needs to go to rehab and we are fortunately in a position where we can afford to send her. I want her to get the best care but we are both in agreement that she doesn’t need a ‘luxury’ experience or a beach view or any of that extra stuff that isn’t really much about addiction treatment. How much do we need to spend to get a very high quality of care if we don’t need all the fancy luxury stuff? It seems to me that a lot of places are trying to sell themselves almost like spas or resorts and the last thing she needs right now is a vacation. She needs real help.
Read answer →Alternative Therapies Provide Chronic Pain Relief Without Pain Medications
Does acupressure work as well as acupuncture to help people who are suffering while trying to taper off opiate pain drugs? I prefer no needles and there is a local acupressure therapist but I am in so much discomfort trying to reduce my daily dosage of Lortabs that I am willing to go the needles route if it is necessary.
Read answer →Treating Gambling Addiction with Medical Marijuana?!
Is medical marijuana effective as way to give up gambling addiction? I have a hard time not visiting the casinos but when I occasionally smoke marijuana with my cousins I never feel the urge to go and play the slots. Can I get medical marijuana by prescription to control my compulsive gambling. I live in Nevada.
Read answer →Addiction Erodes Our Ability to Connect and Maintain Sober and Sobriety
I am borderline and ADHD and I don’t do to well in group with a bunch of whiners so slowly spinning out their miserable tales of heartbreak and woe. I know that this makes me a bit of an asshole lacking empathy but that’s just the way I am wired. I am trying to stay off cocaine and I just keep getting pushed to these suck ass NA meetings which are just full of pathetic dudes crying into the junk they obviously no longer have. Its just not working for me. I need some sort of group for people like me. People who aren’t really sorry about shit and don’t want to cry about anything but who do want to stay clean and who are having a hard time. Any ideas? Preferably someplace minus the Jesus…
Read answer →Am I addicted to cocaine?
I USE COCAINE AND ECSTASY RECREATIONALLY ON THE WEEKENDS. LATELY I HAVE BEEN HAVING VERY STRONG CRAVINGS TO USE COCAINE DURING THE WORK WEEK ALSO AND I HAVE STARTED USING ONCE IN A WHILE. I DO NOT WANT TO STOP USING ON THE WEEKENDS BUT I DO NOT WANT TO BECOME ADDICTED EITHER. IF I AM CRAVING COCAINE DURING THE WORK WEEK AM I ADDICTED?
Read answer →Meth Recovery: A Choice Which Can Restore
My 26 year old brother has been a drug user for years. After one of his last big binges he wound up getting picked up by the police and spent a few days in a county mental psych ward because they said he had amphetamine induced psychosis. They said that it was unusual for a psychosis that was caused by meth to last for as long as his did and said that he must have been using an extreme amount in the days leading up to his getting picked up by the police because he had been hiding in a janitorial closet at the mall and he wouldn’t come out. I am really scared for him. My mom picked him up from the hospital and brought him home. She called me to come back to town to come for a visit and to talk to him. I had not seen him for about a year and I was really shocked by what he looked like. I am 2 years older than him but he looks grim and apparently he was looking a lot worse than this when they picked him up. I told him I’d sell my truck and pay for rehab if he’d go but he said it was too late for him. He says he has brain damage now and the only way he can ever feel happiness now is by using meth. He says he knows he won’t live long but there’s nothing he can do about it now. He seems really defeated and unwilling to do anything to fight to get better. Is this true or is this the drugs talking? I do not doubt that the drugs would have affected him in some ways, but I would think that once he could get really clean and sober for a while he’d be able to snap out of the depression? I feel like it’s our last chance to save his life because if we don’t get him to stop now it’s only going to get worse from here.
Read answer →Bath Salts Abuse shows dangers comparable to Meth Abuse
I’ve been riding a high of bath salts for like the last three months. Now theyre illegal all of a sudden and the price is way higher and they are getting way harder to get when they used to be on sale everywhere. Now that I have trouble getting them sometimes I am starting to realize how much I NEED THEM and this is a little bit scary to me. I always thought they were nonaddictive but now I think theyre ridiculously addictive. I used to smoke cigarettes but I quit and this is way harder than that was. Some of my friends are already switching on to meth and coke but I always said I wasn’t going to get going into those, especially the death meth. I have a few days supply left and then I don’t know if I am going to be able to get anymore and once I am afraid of what that will feel like. How can I get off the salts without feeling so terrible. I want to quit now but I am afraid if it gets to bad I will use another drug like meth just to feel that high again.
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