Learn how traveling with a sober companion provides crucial recovery support during business trips, family vacations, and life transitions.
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Jennifer’s journey through her son Alex’s heroin addiction reveals a powerful truth: recovery is a complex process full of setbacks, but also opportunities for growth. Relapses taught their family valuable lessons, ultimately leading to sustained recovery. Understanding addiction as a chronic disease, much like managing diabetes or asthma, helps families maintain hope and set realistic expectations. Comprehensive support and treatment, family involvement, and resilience are key to overcoming addiction and rebuilding lives. Recovery is a challenging yet transformative journey, offering new beginnings and stronger family bonds.
When Susan’s son Danny overdosed, it was a stark reminder of the realities families face with heroin addiction. Overdoses demand immediate, informed responses to save lives. With fentanyl increasing risks, understanding recognition and intervention is crucial. Armed with knowledge, naloxone, and preparation, families can transform moments of crisis into opportunities for recovery and healing. You can turn trauma into hope and survival into a path to recovery.
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Explore how naltrexone offers hope for families battling heroin addiction. Discover its benefits in blocking opioid effects, reducing cravings, and supporting recovery without abuse risks.
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When Karen received a call about her son’s overdose, her world changed. The hidden danger of fentanyl in heroin underscores the urgent need for awareness and action to protect loved ones. Discover how understanding addiction’s impact extends beyond the individual, causing deep trauma for families. Learn essential strategies for safety, recovery, and healing from secondary trauma to foster a supportive environment for long-term recovery.
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When Karen’s phone rang at 4:17 AM, she discovered her son Jake had survived a fentanyl-laced heroin overdose. As heroin becomes more dangerous due to fentanyl contamination, understanding this crisis could save a loved one’s life. Learn about fentanyl’s impact and crucial safety strategies to support those struggling with addiction.
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The City of Middleton, Ohio, is feeling the effects of the opioid crisis like so many other municipalities in the US. Under a proposed plan by a City Council member, people who dial 911 for help for a person who is overdosing on opioids may be told that help is not on the way. Councilman
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More long term studies are being published on the effects of opioids in the United States. As researchers are able to obtain a broader scope of the damage, the data is revealing more about what could help combat the opioid crisis. For instance, a new report shows that women are being admitted into emergency rooms
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At the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, researchers presented a new study that warns against prescribing opioids for minor pain. The room full of doctors and medical professionals listened to Kit Delgado, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, explain how even small amounts
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Despite the general understanding that combining opioids and benzodiazepines can be deadly, doctors throughout the country are still prescribing the two drugs together to patients, and addicts are still abusing them simultaneously as well. In fact, the trend seems to be rising, as more people are winding up in the emergency room or worse. In
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Researchers at UCLA School of Medicine recently compiled a study monitoring the mortality rate among more than 2,500 patients with opioid use disorder in a general healthcare setting, such as a primary care physician or hospital. What they found was that the patients were seemingly slipping through the system either undetected or inadequately treated. Nearly
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has made a renewed appeal for prescription drug drop-off sites to be established across the state. These sites will be dumping stations where the public can safely dispose of unused prescription medications. Leftover Medications may be used in Pharm Parties This measure was put in place to combat the practice
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