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When someone you love is addicted to opioids, your life can become shattered. You want to help, but you don’t know how. Maybe it’s you who allowed yourself to use them for pain too often and too long after a surgery. Whatever your familiarity and relationship with opioids, you will be pleased to know about suboxone for opioid use disorder.
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Staying positive through substance use disorder recovery takes a village. It starts with the person who is recovering, but it takes a team of supportive friends, loved ones, and professionals willing to help.
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Prescription drugs are a godsend for most of us. We need them to help recover from surgery, fractures and breaks, anxiety, and many other medical issues. However, there are certain drugs which tend to make people more vulnerable to addiction. There is surely a crisis in our country at the moment. Watch out for signs you or a loved one may have a prescription drug addiction.
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Many of us have family or friends who drink too much alcohol or have become addicted to some illegal substance. We wonder how this happened and was there something we could have done to prevent it. Was this person prone to this addiction, just weak, or was it something else? Is addiction genetic?
The dopamine fix is hard to overcome. It’s that little chemical reaction in your brain that allows you to feel happy and pleasured in response to certain stimuli.
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Recovering from substance addiction is no easy journey. Treatments, including medication assisted treatment, make a world of difference for substance use disorders and sustaining recovery.
Talk with Madison Medical Associates in Madison, AL to discover if medication assisted treatment is right for you.
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