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Many addictions begin as a way of self-medicating. People who suffer from depression, insomnia, post traumatic stress disorder, or other issues may have initially found some relief from their ailment in alcohol or other substances. But self-medicating only works until...
Most fatal drug overdoses involve more than one drug; the highest number of overdose fatalities involve mixing drugs with alcohol. The body sees (ethanol) alcohol as a toxic substance and will work to excrete this first from the system. When alcohol is mixed with...
Buprenorphine is an opioid partial agonist, derived from thebaine, an alkaloid of the poppy Papaver somniferum. Because it is an opioid, it produces the same effects of other opioids such as heroin and opioid-based medications. But because it is an agonist,...
There is a huge market for drugs to aid in the treatment of opioid addiction. In 2014, the sales of Suboxone sublingual film were approximately 1.3 billion in the United States, and the total market has grown to over 1.7 billion. Bunavail is a direct competitor of...
Many people think a geographical change is necessary when they are trying to stop partying. While a move may be a good way to motivate the life changes required for addiction recovery, it can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking that location is more important...
