5 Holistic Health Practices To Add To Your Recovery Routine Recovering from opioid addiction using a medication-assisted treatment program is the best way to begin healing from the often-deadly illness—of opioid dependence. However, during this time of recovery, many report that, while the opioids are leaving their body and they are feeling better, they are [...]
Inside Kratom: The Legal Drug With A Dangerous Similarity To Opioids Recently there has been a rise in substances sold in vape shops, convenience stores, and gas stations across the country. These substances include Delta8, CBD, and one of the most popular, Kratom. While these substances are technically legal, they are unregulated and can vary [...]
Can Opioids Give You A Contact High? One of the biggest reasons that indoor smoking has been banned in many countries, especially the United States, is because of the research being done regarding “secondhand smoke.” Studies have shown that, though less harmful, inhaling cigarette or cigar smoke from someone who is smoking nearby can have [...]
The Unexpected Food That May Ease Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms Opioid withdrawal symptoms are brutal. Some of the issues that someone quitting opioids might experience include nausea, sweating, diarrhea, fatigue, insomnia, and anxiety. These are caused by the body’s lack of the painkillers that it has been relying on for an extended period. While these withdrawal [...]
The One Essential Industry Leading Opioid Overdose Deaths When talking about the opioid epidemic, and more specifically what has caused the terrifying rise in opioid overdoses, the blame often falls on pharmaceutical companies that pushed opioids as safe and nonaddictive, doctors who overprescribed opioids, and drug dealers who offer affordable heroin and now fentanyl to [...]
How To Manage Truly Intense Chronic Pain Without Narcotics Chronic pain has become increasingly common in the United States. In fact, in 2016 the CDC reported that just over 50 million Americans suffered from chronic pain, and 19.6 million of those individuals were dealing with high impact, or truly intense, chronic pain. Throughout the 2000s, [...]
Why Is The Opiate Crisis In The U.S. Getting Worse? The opioid crisis, as we know it in the modern age, has been steadily raging since the 1990s, when prescription painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone became available. The crisis then reached a second peak in the early 2010s with the affordable and ample supply of [...]
What Does Heroin Do To The Brain? Starting at a very young age, children are warned against taking illegal drugs like heroin, simply with the warning that drugs are “bad.” As we get older, many people reach adulthood without a full comprehension of what exactly makes a drug like heroin “bad.” Of course, we know [...]
How To Minimize Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome From Opiates Opiates have long been considered to be one of the most difficult substances to stop using. Many people who have recovered from opioid addiction have experienced the difficult withdrawal symptoms that occur within the first few days or to a week after ending opioid use. These withdrawal [...]
Why Are Doctors Overprescribing Opiates In The US? There are many root causes for why the opioid crisis has become such a large-scale epidemic. These causes range from the highly addictive nature of opioids, the commonplace practice of prescribing them for chronic pain, the affordability of heroin, and now the rise of fentanyl-laced substances. However, [...]
