Ask anyone who has broken free of addiction – it is a tortuous road to freedom.

Withdrawal symptoms – the sensations the body goes through as you attempt to quit usually begin shortly before your next scheduled dose of the drug. Sometimes they start just a few hours after your last dose, but usually they hit you between 6-12 hours after your last dose. Withdrawal symptoms can include irritability, sleeplessness, and increased appetite.

You may notice watery eyes, a runny nose, yawning; perhaps you start sweating or have trouble sleeping (insomnia). You may often feel restless, irritable, notice a loss of appetite, body aches, severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea or tremors. If your cravings get stronger, you may feel dysphoria (a profound state of unease), start to think about suicide, and get a strong craving for your drug. Those cravings for your drug of addiction all too often lead to relapse despite your best efforts to quit.… [Continue Reading]

Physicians use methadone as a pain reliever. Some physicians use methadone to treat heroin addiction by substituting methadone for heroin. Unfortunately, they do not realize that methadone is even more addictive than traditional opiates like heroin. Breaking methadone addiction is even more difficult than quitting heroin and the symptoms of methadone withdrawal are more severe.

In a recent year, doctors prescribed enough prescription painkillers to medicate every American adult every 4 hours for a month. As a result, pain medication related visits to hospital emergency rooms has spiked over 98 percent in recent years. A recent video from Science Daily points out taxpayers often foot the bill.

Trading one opiate drug for another is never an acceptable treatment.… [Continue Reading]

Is Dorothy’s adventure an acid trip? This has long been debated in popular culture and completely denied by the movie creators.

L. Frank Baum’s original story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published in 1900 and written during a time when opium was legal. Opium is a narcotic that is derived from poppies. A quote from L. Frank Baum’s novel that references these poppies,

“They now came upon more and more of the big scarlet poppies, and fewer and fewer of the other flowers; and soon they found themselves in the midst of a great meadow of poppies. Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers together their odor is so powerful that anyone who breathes it falls asleep, and if the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever. But Dorothy did not know this, nor could she get away from the bright red flowers that were everywhere about; so presently her eyes grew heavy and she felt she must sit down to rest and to sleep”.… [Continue Reading]

Opiate Withdrawal – Symptoms & Signs

Opiates are highly potent, powerful drugs derived from the poppy plant. Sometimes we call them “narcotics.” They have been used for many centuries to relieve pain. Today, opiates can be natural or synthetic.

Opiate drugs work because they attach to “opiate receptors” in your body. When they do, they relieve pain and induce feelings of euphoria. Unfortunately, they stick around in your body and your body quickly becomes dependent on them. Over 14% of those who try prescription pain relievers non-medically become dependent.

When you become addicted, you need ever-higher doses of the drug and experience cravings for opiates between doses.

The symptoms usually begin shortly before your next scheduled dose of the drug. Sometimes, they start just a few hours after your last dose, but more commonly they hit you between 6-12 hours after your last dose.… [Continue Reading]

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Physicians use Suboxone^® as a pain reliever. However, some try to treat one form of addiction (such as heroin) by substituting dependence on Suboxone^®. Unfortunately, most physicians do not realize that Suboxone^® is more highly addictive than traditional opiates. This means that trying to break Suboxone addiction is even more difficult – and the withdrawal symptoms are more severe – than breaking your original dependence.

Trading one opiate drug for another is never an acceptable treatment.

Pharmaceutical literature reports many side effects from using Suboxone®. Those side effects include drowsiness, dizziness, weakness, constipation, headache, nausea, or vomiting, slow and shallow breathing, mental and mood changes, depression, stomach/abdominal pain, dark urine, yellowing eyes and skin, vision changes. In addition, the literature lists allergic reactions that include rash, itching, swelling, severe dizziness, and trouble breathing.… [Continue Reading]