by Anthony Myers | Jun 26, 2017 | Recovery
It’s about six months until (or after) Christmas, depending on the way you look at it. Maybe now’s a good time to talk about the gifts that keep giving. These gifts aren’t something material, yet they can be much harder to attain and keep. They can also be more...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 16, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Recovery
One of the debates over substance use disorder treatment is whether including medication-assisted treatment is preferable to detox and therapy alone. The argument is that if an opioid addict takes methadone or buprenorphine (often prescribed under the brand name of...
by Anthony Myers | May 31, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Recovery
Recently, a Canadian political cartoonist wrote and illustrated a book about what it means to be a Canadian and discussed this book in a radio interview. In the course of this conversation, he told the interviewer about his Uncle Bunny. Uncle Bunny received his name...
by Anthony Myers | May 30, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery
Yesterday, we talked about veterans who struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as the result of their military service. This disorder is understandable, given the complex, sometimes horrible things that many veterans witness, feel, and do during their...
by Anthony Myers | May 25, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Recovery
You probably know that medical professionals use drugs to treat drug addiction. Although that treatment method may sound counterintuitive at first, it actually makes a lot of sense. You see drug treatment quite often in the treatment of opiate/opioid addictions. If...
by Anthony Myers | May 18, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Recovery
Prescribing methadone has long been a method to treat additions, but it seems as if this drug might be as controversial as it is useful. Methadone is an opiate (opioid). That puts it in the same class of drugs such as codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, fentanyl,...
