Recovery from drug and alcohol dependency is never easy, and no one treatment is going to be appropriate for every patient. For this reason, we take an individual approach to each case to develop a treatment plan that is tailored to immediate needs and designed to bring about the best possible results. Medication-assisted treatment Long …
Not why addiction, but why the pain? – Dr. Gabor Maté What Dr. Maté—a leader in addiction medicine and world-renowned author and speaker—is saying, is something we’ve long known to be true about trauma and addiction, and yet the field of addiction treatment still lags behind the research (links to 6 studies at bottom of page): addiction …
Gabapentin, also known by its brand name Neurontin, is a prescription drug initially marketed as an anti-seizure medication. Recently, however, it has shown great promise in the treatment of nerve-related pain from shingles, diabetes, and other types of neuropathy. Some of the other complaints that gabapentin can be prescribed for include restless leg syndrome and …
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Many people who struggle with chronic pain will experience a dramatic increase in their pain from time to time. This is what we refer to as breakthrough pain or, more simply put, a flareup. The intensity and duration of the pain during each episode may vary, but when it happens, it can cause a significant amount of …
If you have a sensitive nervous system, it means that you are more responsive than the average person to triggers in your environment – and this, in itself, is a broad topic. Nervous system triggers could be anything from the fabric of the clothes you are wearing to something that somebody says to you in …
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