Articles for tag: Opiate Addiction, Opiates, Suboxone

What You Need to Know About Suboxone Overdose

Suboxone overdose symptoms are very similar to the overdose symptoms for other opiates. The Suboxone is actually in the opiate family, but it is used to treat long-term opiate addicts. The drug is a combination of two medications, naloxone and buprenorphine, that block the opiate in the nervous system. Together, the drugs work to appease ...

Karla News

Why is Heroin so Dangerous?

Heroin is a semi-synthetic opioid that is derived from morphine (which is used in patients who require round-the-clock pain relief)- however heroin is not legal, but provides similar effects. Heroin users tend to look for “the rush,” as many people tend to call it, and what this rush does is hits the user with intense ...

Methadone: Medical Detox for Heroin Addiction

Heroin is an illegal Schedule I narcotic, placing it in the group of the most highly addictive drugs available on the streets. There are many methods of using heroine, including: snorting, smoking, swallowing or injecting. Heroin is one of the few drugs known to sometimes cause an instant physical addiction in the brain. Withdrawing from ...

Karla News

Stages of Heroin Addiction

Heroin’s popularity seems to run in spurts. Most heroin users live in the inner cities, however, many people that live in the suburbs and even rural areas can come across a heroin addict living among them or even a heroin addiction themselves. Unlike other drugs, initial use of heroin usually leads to an addiction. Heroin ...

Opiate Detox Without the Withdrawal

I am a recovering opiate addict. I have been through the severe withdrawal symptoms that opiates cause in your body. They were painful, excruciating at times and I will never, ever be able to erase that experience from my mind. Here’s the thing…I consider that to be helpful in my recovery. The Slow Taper Method ...