The NIDA has three main components for successful addiction treatment and recovery: get the person to stop using, keep them from using, and make sure that they live productive lives. It also states that addiction is also highly prone to relapses, so it can be greatly beneficial for a recovering addict to participate in healthy ….
Addiction, in any form, can be difficult to overcome. This is especially the case for chronic addictions that go on for years. Likewise, people trying to recover from chronic, long-term opiate addictions must contend with residual withdrawal effects and intense drug cravings long after they stop using opiates. As the most researched and developed opiate ….
Methadone’s use as an opiate addiction treatment continues to draw controversy in terms of how the drug works and whether it offers any real therapeutic benefits. Issues surrounding methadone abuse and dependence bring into question the overall risks involved with methadone maintenance treatment as a long-term treatment approach. According to the Journal of Addiction Medicine, ….
Today’s opiate addiction epidemic has created a growing demand for treatment services, so much so that methadone treatment waiting lists have become more so the norm than the exception. Those who most need methadone treatment tend to have long histories of opiate abuse, making the need for some form of treatment all the more critical. ….
Recovering from chronic opiate addiction can be an exhausting ordeal, both physically and emotionally. Low energy levels, problems sleeping and lack of motivation make for a day-in, day-out battle with self on top of dealing with never-ending drug cravings. After months or years of chronic opiate abuse, the brain’s functional capacity sees considerable decline, a ….
Opiate abuse can develop out of a treatment need, boredom or as a way to take the edge off of a stressful day. As the most fast and effective pain-relieving agents on the market, prescription opiates appear in most anyone’s medicine cabinet, which makes them easily accessible for non-medicinal uses. Whether taken for treatment purposes ….
As one of a handful of opiate addiction treatments, methadone offers a range of therapeutic benefits that can be used in different stages of the recovery process. First developed as an addiction treatment in the 1960s, methadone exists as the most researched and applied medication therapy. Methadone detoxification and methadone maintenance treatment both utilize the ….
Methadone maintenance treatment encompasses an array of treatment interventions, each one working towards the overall goal of long-term abstinence from opiate use. Developing a support network along the way becomes an essential part of this recovery approach. While methadone treatment offers considerable support in terms of helping you overcome drug-using urges, opiate addiction lives on ….
As the very first opiate addiction treatment medication, methadone has a considerable track record as far as research and development goes. Since the 1960s, methadone has remained the standard against which all opiate addiction treatment medications are measured. In spite of the restrictions and stigma associated with methadone maintenance treatment, those who most need it ….
Methadone belongs to the Schedule II class of controlled opiate substances, which can make for a high abuse and addiction potential when not properly monitored. As a powerful opiate drug, methadone’s unique chemical formulation offers an effective opiate addiction treatment therapy as well as a powerful pain-relief agent. Under federal regulations, methadone clinics act as ….
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