On the Opiate Stigma- Prescribing Opiate Drugs for PTSD, OCD, Anxiety, & Migraines
On the Opiate Stigma- Prescribing Opiate Drugs for PTSD, OCD, Anxiety, & Migraines – www.understandingpain.com – Dr. Cochran is the author of 3 books on the topic of chronic pain. The stigma over opiates as an alternative treatment option is so extensive groups of doctors refuse to prescribe them. It’s the same as not prescribing penicillin for infection. Opiates, such as Morphine, Methadone, and Oxycodone have been shown to help with several mental disorders including bipolar, obsessive compulsive, and anxiety, as well as chronic pain. Dr. Cochran has successfully prescribed opiate drugs for the treatment of Tourette Syndrome, anxiety attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder.
Counselors: More young people turning to heroin
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Brian Parkhill, executive director and a counselor with Millennium Treatment Services, told The Santa Fe New Mexican (http://bit.ly/OUJo93 ) for a story published Saturday that most of the opiate addicts who are referred to the drug-treatment center …
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Drug Combination Can Fight Cocaine Addiction
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However, buprenorphine itself produces dependence and it is generally not prescribed unless someone is already addicted to a similar opiate, like heroin. The danger is that treating cocaine addiction with buprenorphine would merely substitute one …
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DSHS schedules public hearings on proposed Lummi Counseling opiate …
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OLYMPIA – The Department of Social and Health Services has scheduled two public hearings in Bellingham to receive comments on plans to add an opiate substitution treatment service to an existing chemical dependency treatment program. The program …
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