When someone enters treatment to receive help for an opioid use disorder, they may be prescribed a medication called Suboxone. This drug is used in medication-supported recovery (MSR™) that can […]
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What is Naltrexone?
One of the most promising tools used for substance use recovery is naltrexone, the non-narcotic drug sold under the brand names Vivitrol and ReVia. Naltrexone is a vital tool in […]
What Does a Morphine Addiction Do to the Brain?
Morphine is a potent opiate used as an analgesic for managing pain — it’s also highly addictive. But what does a morphine addiction actually do to the brain? In what […]
4 Signs of a Tramadol Addiction
Tramadol is a prescription pain medication that works in much the same way as other synthetic opioids. Tramadol works by blocking the pain receptors in the brain and also inhibiting […]
Which Drugs are Classified as Opioids?
If there is one word that the American public had to learn the meaning of this past decade, it was “opioids.” This three-syllable word was a stranger to most of […]
What is Black Tar Heroin?
Heroin is an opiate drug made from morphine, a substance derived from poppy plants indigenous to regions in Southeast Asia, and produced in Afghanistan and Mexico. There are different forms […]