Comments on: The Road Back From Addiction

How One Family Struggled To Knock Out Their Son’s $300-A-Day Prescription Abuse

[dontforgetus]

ok this is for the mis-informed and ignorant (which seem to be the majority of the media) for us that are in need of opoid treatment for chronic pain. http://www.cpmission.com/main/painthekiller.html
...READ THIS...

[darma4]

I spent two months at G&G Holistics in Miami Florida and I''m living proof that the program really works! I have been clean for 2 years now, no relaspe, no need or desire two use! I have nothing but great things to say about the program. They are tops!

[waismann-2009]

Actually you are quite correct "Ignorance is a bliss". There has been great discoveries in the field of medicine in opioid dependence. Now we understand that the opoids have replace endorphins, causing the receptor sites to extend and not attach. We can detox patients in a humane way and block the receptors so the craving is diminished...And by the way the word "addiction" is a social behavior caused by a dependency not properly treated....not all patients are the same , they are not all "addicts"....

[jrccalc]

Oh and I got a great laugh at the pill they are going to talk about tonight on the news that claims to help with addiction. HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO haven''t we realized that drugs aren''t good. So now your going to replace one for another. Yeah that''s a smart idea.

[jrccalc]

If we stopped trying to pass laws limiting access to drugs that don''t work and only cost tax payers billions. Instead focus on treatment facilities for people who want to quit, we could solve this problem. But we have be brain washed by the government to think the solution to all of our problems is legislation, all that does is destroy our freedom.

[withouthelp]

I know addiction all to well. Two of my brother died as a result from opoid addiction. Over the years I told myself I wouldn''t ever allow myself to become addicted. well surprisingly enough I am and have been for about 7yrs now. Thankfully, I''ve worked my way down from Oxycontin to Norco (hydrocodone). I am tired and want help. The state in which I live has two Drs. in my area that are licensed to prescribe suboxone. I would have to admit myself I believe for five days to start the process. On the suboxone website they make it sound so easy to get help just find a Dr. in your area.... there are none. and in this state where "the good ole boys live" addiction is a sign of weekness and many find it hard to talk about. I have lost hope and don''t know where to turn. I thought you could start the treatment in a Drs. office, maybe true if you have a participating Dr. in your area. The help I need is not within reach and that makes me sad and frustrated with the system. I am a good, caring person. I am a middle class person, working fulltime in the insurance industry for 18 yrs. So for those of you who think this only happens to others, you are terribly mistaken. Withouthelp. Please if any of you have advise, please respond.... those of you who want to chastize me or make my situation worse don''t reply. I can do that by myself,

[iowuser]

The G&G Holistic Addiction Treatment Program can be found at http://www.drugrehabcenter.com or by calling 800-559-9503.

[leetann]

Suboxone and other medicines used for addiction work. I have been treating patients as an addiction specialist for many years. I have never seen a treatment in any area of medicine that has been so successful. People who think that it is replacing one addiction for another are wrong. It is not different than treating any chronic disease like diabetes or high blood pressure. If you think that people who need to take medicine every day to treat their disease are "addicted" to it, then I guess I am addicted to my blood pressure medication. With Suboxone I can help a patient get their lives back in a day or two, at a very minimal cost, compared to months and months and thousands and thousands of dollars spent on ineffective rehab.

[cjenkins7984]

Ignorance is bliss....is it not? I love how people post comments on these blogs when they don''t have half of the facts. Yes Methadone replacement therapy was a mistake. Now we have "done" zombies crawling around every inner-city project in the U.S. Anyone that has been hopelessly addicted to heroin or Oxycontin will tell you that Suboxone on the other hand is a miracle drug. Suboxone does not get you high and it lets the recovering addict live their life as a productive member of society. So what if the patient becomes dependent on that? They aren''t out their robbing and stealing to get high. In fact, they aren''t even getting high. If they were to try to get high the naloxone in their system would block it. It''s no different than people using SSRIs to treat depression. They are replacing something that their body needs to function properly. Anyone who says they don''t need it obviously knows nothing about addiction. Until they find a cure for opiate dependence this is what we have and it works. It works very well. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

[ginny954]

PLEASE! Can you give the name of G&G. I have sent my brother to rehab a few times, it,s been a joke and a waist of money. Desperate!

[brianbwb-2009]

"...crack marijuana?"

What the heck is crack marijuana? I have in all my 51 years have never heard of it.

Or did the author simply omit a comma? If so, then the intentional attempt to include marijuana with addictive and dangerous substances like crack cocaine smells of more of the insane fear mongering that started with "reefer madness", and continues through today''s "war on terrorism", in other words, a pack of blatant lies designed to sway public opinion against an herb whose production and distribution cannot be controlled for profit by big business.

[waismann-2009]

By the way , we have seen more and more patients that have become dependent on "Suboxone" just another opiate due to doctors precribing it as a treatment...There is no need for replacement drugs if the goal is detoxification, medicine can achieve that...We believe the same way when Methadone was presented in this field and 30 years later patients are still lining up in clinics...

[waismann-2009]

Prescription pain "opiates" causes a chemical imbalance in the brain that medicine is able to reverse. This poor boy relapsed twice and will probably relapse again because the disease has not been treated. He will phisically "crave". Why are we talking about the problem, showing the victims but never showing the solution, never educating the public on their disease so they can actually get real help and not be locked down like criminals? Our media has a responsibilty to us , I know drama sells, but presenting solutions and education is our responsibility as a society....

[bosco1237]

Once again, the news demonizes marijuana and lumps it in with the street drugs heroin and crack cocaine in the evening broadcast on prescription drug abuse. Tell me, how many people has marijuana killed by overdose? Answer...ZERO. Tell me, how many people die each year from precription drugs? Answer...100,000. Tell me, how physically addictive is marijuana? Answer...it isn''t. Tell me, THE TRUTH!!! Tell everyone the truth please! Marijuana has endured decades of propaganda fueled by greed, bigotry and self serving interests. Our current administration further spews this propaganda by suggesting that if you smoke pot, space aliens will come down and your girl will run off with them. Atleast that''s not as preposterous as the past condemnations. Past propaganda included that it lead to insanity, homosexuality and violent behavior. This is our government that has told us these bald faced lies. Yet here we are in the 21st century still being spoon fed this total bull@#%! I''m sick of it. If you are a responsible enough adult to be handed a weapon and told you can now make the decision to snuff out another human''s life in the name of oil, then I think that you are responsible enough to consume a more benign recreational drug than alchohol or tobacco, both of which kill thousands each year.

[percymenzies]

The segment on addiction gave the impression that the only way a patient gets well is by going to a residential program which can be quite expensive. With the introduction of the medication Suboxone it now possible to detox patients on an outpatient basis and get them back to work or school within days and the patient attends treatment sessions in the evenings and weekends. The outcomes are better when patients are treated in their natural environment while being exposed to the cues and triggers leading to drug use. At our clinic we detox patients with Suboxone and then protect them from relapsing by starting on the medication naltrexone. Naltrexone is the only non-addicting, non-abusable medication that protects patients from accidently or impulsively using any opiates.

[sister5]

Treating drug abuse & the disease of addiction with ANOTHER drug is not what I feel is right in any way, shape or form.
I never went to treatment, had a 25 year active addiction that went to everyday, all day use for the last 6 years. I never entered any treatment program, but I found treatment for my disease of addiction in the best 12 step program in he world. The use of drugs was only a symptom of my disease!!! To keep feeding that would not treat the disease, only (possibly the use). Addicts lack the tools to live life on life's terms.