Your Guide To Substance Abuse Interventions
Addiction can change a person’s life. Substance abuse can alter priorities, motivations, and personalities. When a person doesn’t want to face a personal drug abuse problem, someone else must step in and offer assistance. Interventions
Opana Taking Over For Oxycontin
A New Pill That Drug Treatment Providers Need To Be Aware Of Oxycontin abuse in the Sacramento area and all of California continues to devastate families of all walks of life. Education of the general
Social Model Opiate Detox
A Therapeutic Approach To Opiate Detox For the 10% of the general population thought to regularly use opiates, many of them will become physically dependent on opiates-AKA addicted. So, when they decide to get clean
Recognizing Prescription Drug Abuse
Patients abuse prescription medications when they take them in unintended ways. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 52 million adolescents and adults have taken prescription drugs in unintended ways at least once. Prescription
How COWS Can Help Assess Opiate Withdrawals
Clinical Opiate Withdrawals Scale (COWS) The clinical opiate withdrawals scale (COWS) is a pen and paper instrument that rates eleven common opiate withdrawals symptoms. Once the score for all of the opiate withdrawals symptoms are
A National Epidemic: Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription drug abuse has become an epidemic in our nation. The last decade has seen a sharp rise in addiction overdoses and deaths related to non-medical prescription drug use. Narcotic pain relievers present issues in
