Coping with Cravings During Treatment for Heroin Addiction
By getting the appropriate care, identifying your triggers, learning coping skills, and seeking emotional support, you can overcome heroin cravings during treatment.
By getting the appropriate care, identifying your triggers, learning coping skills, and seeking emotional support, you can overcome heroin cravings during treatment.
Learn about the common methadone dosage amounts, what is meant by a lethal dose, how an overdose can occur, and the signs and symptoms of an overdose.
As heroin abuse and addiction continue to grow in America, it’s important to realize who this is affecting, why it’s occurring, and what we can do to put an end to this epidemic.
Heroin addiction often leads to unemployment and poverty, making treatment seem out of reach. Fortunately, people of all financial backgrounds can get the care they need.
You can help someone you care about seek methadone addiction treatment by taking the following steps, and by reaching out to a treatment specialist for further advice.
Detoxing from an opioid drug like methadone can take a few weeks, but it can feel like forever. With medical assistance, you can safely and successfully overcome methadone addiction.
Since methadone has been studied by scientists for many years, we are able to understand exactly how this drug interacts with your body and brain.
By understanding how methadone works, you’ll recognize how a dependence and abuse behaviors can occur.
Knowing what to expect during methadone detox will help you feel more prepared and less afraid of the process.
Learn about how to safely and effectively end your methadone use, and what to expect during the detox process.
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