Heroin Intervention

Opioid Antagonists are types of medications that essentially block the effects of opioid agonist medications/drugs (heroin, heroin, oxycodone, methadone, hydrocodone, morphine, opium). Drugs like heroin and prescription painkillers attach to...

It’s no secret that heroin use can cause a host of health problems, in addition, to quickly leading to addiction. Prolonged heroin abuse can significantly impact major organs such as...

Addiction affects everyone who experiences it in different ways, and an intervention can be the last push a person needs to seek treatment for a substance abuse problem. Some people...

Almost one-fourth of the people who use heroin develop an addiction, and 40-60% of the people working to recover from a heroin addiction suffer a relapse. In many of these...

How Long Should You Stay On Suboxone? The use of Suboxone to treat heroin addiction is a hot and highly controversial topic. One side argues that opioid-replacement therapy saves lives,...

Public awareness of the ongoing opioid crisis in America is on the rise, and state lawmakers and officials are growing more vocal about their concerns. The opioid epidemic has hit...

Over the past two decades, drug abuse has grown increasingly prevalent across the United States. While many drugs play a role in the rising numbers of drug-related crimes and overdose...

Opioid addiction has reached epidemic levels in the U.S. according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The rate of opioid overdoses has nearly quadrupled since 1999. Opioids include...

Recent high-profile celebrity overdoses have pushed the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic into the news and spurred serious national debate as to what measures must be taken to stave off...