There are a number of effective treatment options to treat pain killer addiction to prescription opioids and to help manage the sometimes severe withdrawal symptoms that can accompany sudden stopping ..

Common side effects and adverse reactions of pain killers are: nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, dry mouth, miosis (contraction of the pupil), orthostatic hypotension (blood pressure drops upon sudden sta..

Reading through the list of ingredients that make up crystal meth seems more like the inventory of a toxic waste dump than something people would willingly put into their bodies. As you read through ..

More than 10% of high school seniors have started taking Vicodin for reasons other than reducing pain. Opioids and other pain killers used as the doctor has prescribed are supposedly not dangerous acc..

Perhaps you have heard the whispered term “Cheese” by your teenagers or their friends. You may have innocently thought that this was in simple reference to a simple trip to a local McDonald’s re..

It is hard to pinpoint exactly how much you are throwing away on marijuana unless you take the time to sit down and do a bit of quick math. How often do you buy weed, and in what quantity? Better yet,..

There are few things more damaging to a relationship than an addiction. I constantly hear from my readers that their partner’s marijuana addiction eats away at their finances, ruins the time they ha..

Addiction recovery can be broken down into five major areas that need to be addressed, processed, and moved through for success. They are sequential and though the questions may sound simple, there a..

Stress has been called an equal opportunity destroyer. No one is immune from its effects. Although we often think of stress in terms of its physical symptoms, in fact, our emotional and behavioral liv..

Here one way to look at phases of recovery, milestones to mark your progress. Addiction recovery can be thought of as moving through these five phases:1. Admission of a problem This is the key startin..

Irene, in her late 40s, had been in an out of treatment centers for years before consulting with me. When in treatment, she was fine, with no desire to drink, but once she returned home with her husba..

Have you ever tried to break yourself of a bad habit? More powerful than a bad habit, have you ever tried to free yourself from an addiction? I have. Have you tried to stop many times? I did, too. I ..

If pain killers are taken exactly as prescribed, they are safe and will rarely cause addiction. And yet addiction to prescription pain killers is growing. The most common medications that can cause ..