by Keenen Diamond | Dec 4, 2018 | Addiction News, Addiction Treatment, Drug Abuse, Life in Recovery, Opioid Addiction, Q&A, Relapse and Recovery, Substance Abuse
Substance addiction is a disease that forces your brain to seek pleasure from something that does your body an incredible amount of harm and has absolutely no upside, save the fleeting feeling of euphoria that soon becomes weaker and weaker as your body begins to...
by Keenen Diamond | Dec 3, 2018 | Addiction News, Addiction Treatment, Drug Abuse, Life in Recovery, Opioid Addiction, Q&A, Relapse and Recovery, Substance Abuse
The short answer is a resounding yes. Research indicates that the detoxification process can be one of the most difficult and testing periods of an individual’s life. In this process, an individual effectively forces themselves to enter into a stage of intense...
by Keenen Diamond | Sep 7, 2018 | Addiction News, Drug Abuse
Many people who use heroin began their addiction with prescription opioids. Often, an individual begins taking a prescription painkiller as prescribed, begins abusing their prescription, and eventually turns to illicit opioids because they are cheaper or they are no...
by Keenen Diamond | Jul 20, 2018 | Drug Abuse, Q&A
Heroin overdoses have become much more common and much more dangerous in recent years with the introduction of powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl. According to the Center for Disease Control, “heroin-related overdose death increased fivefold from 2010 to 2016,...
by Keenen Diamond | Aug 22, 2017 | Blog, Drug Abuse
A quick and flippant answer to the question “how does heroin work” might be “all too well”. Heroin and medical morphine have the same effect on a person’s brain and metabolism, and a person’s body converts both heroin and medical morphine into the same form of...
