addiction medication
Addiction medication is often called replacement therapy and involves giving a substitute drug to help the addict stop taking the illegal drug. The goal of replacement therapy should be to eventually stop taking the drug. Replacement drugs include methadone, suboxone, naltrexone, and subutex.
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Methods & Tips to Reduce Cravings for Drugs and Alcohol
Recovery from alcohol and drug abuse or addiction is a long and often difficult process. One of the hardest things to overcome is the almost unbearable craving you have to take a drink, use a drug, just to get over or get back to feeling good again. Cravings are incredibly hard to resist and are responsible for many incidents of relapse. But you can overcome cravings for alcohol and drugs. It takes discipline, determination and practice. Here are some tips that can help. Continue Reading
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Prometa: A Treatment that May Curb Drug and Alcohol Cravings
“I haven’t seen anything else like it,” said Steve Ayers, D.O., an emergency medicine physician in Aspen, Colorado, when asked about a drug rehabilitation treatment called Prometa, which he uses on patients who are addicted to cocaine, meth, or alcohol. “It physiologically changes the brain tissue, the brain chemistry.” Prometa involves three to five infusions of a medication called Flumazenil, which is used to treat benzodiazepine overdoses. In addition to the infusions, patients take hydroxyzine (an anti-anxiety medication) and gabapentin (an anti-seizure medication) daily for about a month.
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