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Alcohol Withdrawal; How Serious Are Your Symptoms? Do You Need Medical Care? Take This Test to Find Out

Am I in alcohol withdrawal? And if so, how serious are my symptoms…Do I need to go to the hospital or not? Any serious drinker has felt the mild effects of alcohol withdrawal – after all, acute...

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Buprenorphine, Suboxone or Subutex – Which Do You Need?

If you are addicted to opiates, do you need to take buprenorphine, Suboxone or Subutex – and what's the difference between these anyway? Buprenorphine is an opiate, actually it's a partial opiate agonist...

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Am I addicted? Take the APA 7 questions test.

The line between use and abuse, and between abuse and addiction get seem a bit fuzzy at times, and especially when your mind may be a lot clouded by regular intoxication and the effects of drugs or alcohol. ...

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Drunk Last Night and Can't Remember? Understand Blackouts and Learn What Causes Alcohol Related Memory Loss

Blackouts - Not sure what happened last night? Alcohol can cause memory loss. Learn how and why this happens.

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How to make a relapse prevention plan.

For most people overcoming addiction, willpower and determination aren’t enough (although they help!) and professional help, family support and planning are as much required as a desire and commitment...

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Marijuana withdrawal symptoms. Insomnia, anxiety, iritability, headache...

Marijuana is not heroin…but neither is it the same marijuana that it was 20 or even 10 years ago, and as the potency has risen almost 10 fold over the decades, so to have the risks of addiction, the...

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The risks of depression and alcohol abuse. How to get help for a dual diagnosis.

Depression and alcoholism are incredibly interlinked, and if you experience clinical depression you are far more likely to abuse drugs or alcohol; and if you abuse drugs and alcohol, you are far more likely...

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9 Reasons Why Doctors Won't Offer Suboxone - Alcoholism, Liver Disease, Mental Illness, Pregnancy...

Is Suboxone right for you? Will your doctor want to give you Suboxone (buprenorphine) or will she recommend Methadone or another form of treatment instead? Although most patients prefer treatment with take...

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How to quit pain pills…Methadone or drug rehab?

Whether prescribed the medications for a legitimate reason initially, or whether experimenting with recreational use, the seductive nature of these pills proves too much for a great many of us, and with...

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The Suboxone Ceiling Effect - Why Some People Need Methadone

Suboxone (buprenorphine) is a pretty great new drug, and for a lot of people, it's just a far preferable alternative to methadone and especially to naltrexone. When suboxone works well, withdrawal pains are...

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