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Sentences to ponder | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. AA, evidence and Glaser. New wave of overdoses and a place to learn about the problem & solutions →. April 10, 2015 · 8:37 pm. Look at this picture. This is how some people taper off Suboxone. They cut the dissolvable films into little bitty pieces. The company that makes Suboxone does not advise doing this, because they say they can’t guarantee the drug is evenly distributed throughout the film, but guess what? We don’t promote detox. They want you to stay on this drug.
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New wave of overdoses and a place to learn about the problem & solutions | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. We should re-examine policies for opioid addicted physicians? April 19, 2015 · 11:16 am. New wave of overdoses and a place to learn about the problem & solutions. 8220;We are increasingly seeing signs of what appears to be a return to the epidemic levels of 10 years ago, when fentanyl-related drug overdoses were blamed for 236 excess drug deaths,” Washtenaw County Medical Examiner Dr. Jeffrey Jentzen said. It just so happens that MAADAC’s Spring Conference. Dawn Farm Garden B...
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Buprenorphine compliance rates | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. Recovery coaches for chronic disease management. Love and faith →. August 15, 2013 · 6:31 am. Choose you evidence carefully by rocket ship. The purpose of the study was to look at factors associated with completion of the 6 month, primary care based program. Primary care patient characteristics associated with completion of 6-month buprenorphine treatment. BACKGROUND: Opioid addiction is prevalent in the United States. Detoxification followed by behavioral counseling (abs...
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Criminal charges before and after initiation of buprenorphine maintenance | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. Twelve-Step attendance trajectories over 7 years among adolescents. Memory ‘trick’ relieves drug cravings →. April 12, 2012 · 8:18 am. Criminal charges before and after initiation of buprenorphine maintenance. I would have thought this. Was a softball in support of buprenorphine. But, no:. Among subjects with prior criminal charges, initiation of office-based buprenorphine treatment did not appear to have a significant impact on subsequent criminal charges. We’ve had fr...
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Not evidence-based for recovery | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. Chemical Dependency and The Family – from the Dawn Farm Education Series. The evidence-base for 12 step recovery →. March 24, 2014 · 6:09 am. Not evidence-based for recovery. Choose you evidence carefully by rocket ship. Abstinence-oriented treatment has taken a beating in the media recently. There have been lots of assertions that medication maintenance approaches are. And have posted repeatedly on the subject. Right on time,. Drug and Alcohol Findings. Buprenorphine in what...
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What makes treatment effective? | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. Regulating the marijuana market. Buprenorphine and emotional reactivity →. July 19, 2013 · 10:48 am. What makes treatment effective? I’ve been catching a lot of heat recently for posts about Suboxone and methadone. (For the sake of this post, lets refer to them as opioid replacement therapy, or ORT, for the rest of this post. Another post, that has nothing to do with me, blames abstinence-oriented treatment. Addiction treatment admissions.]. To some extent, these arguments re...
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The medical establishment’s “best hope for addicts” | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. More on Ernest Kurtz. Drugs as genocide →. January 29, 2015 · 12:53 pm. The medical establishment’s “best hope for addicts”. I’m sure this piece. Is going to get a lot of attention. “A treatment that actually works” is the subtitle for the article. I’m not going to write a lengthy response, but I have written a lot. How effective is it. For someone like the subject of the article? Well, two recent studies are not very promising. Over the course of 1 year. Works to do what?
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One reason why getting addicts good primary care physicians is so important | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. Partial truths drive use of meds and resistance to meds →. May 14, 2015 · 5:35 am. One reason why getting addicts good primary care physicians is so important. Frequent emergency room visits is associated with overdose. The risk of death was 17 times greater for patients with three visits, and 48 times for those with four or more visits, according to the new study. Comments Off on One reason why getting addicts good primary care physicians is so important. Let us work together.
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Sentences to ponder | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. Mark and Ryan’s story →. October 16, 2012 · 11:21 am. American Society of Addiction Medicine (Photo credit: Wikipedia). From the ASAM blog. 8230;is there any evidence that the general public requires less treatment than do healthcare professionals and pilots? Would they too have an 80-90% recovery rate? Filed under Mutual Aid. Mark and Ryan’s story →. One response to “. October 16, 2012 at 10:08 pm. Excellent post, Jason! I love when you bring this difference up! Dawn Farm po...
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The gold standard | Addiction & Recovery News
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Addiction and Recovery News. Dopey, Boozy, Smoky and Stupid →. July 12, 2014 · 3:57 pm. Recovery Review has a terrific post. Reviewing a journal article examining addiction treatment for physicians. He pulled this from the source journal article:. Recovery Review summarizes the elements of Physician Health Programs:. Doctors sign binding contracts. Abstinence is the goal. Weekly doctor-specific mutual aid groups. Attendance at 12-step mutual aid groups (AA, NA, CA etc). Extended care (five years). Adopt ...