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Suncoast Rehab Center Discusses the Dangers of Mixing Drugs

… Mixing an upper like cocaine with other uppers like Ritalin or downers like heroin with other downers like alcohol can speed up or slow down the body’s central nervous …

Do YOU Know How to Use Narcan?

…ews media is filled daily with reports of huge numbers of overdoses, deaths and “bad batches” of heroin, leaving almost no community unaffected by this growing crisis. Almost every person right now kn…

“Twenty-five days later I feel like a whole new person”

…ew Life Detoxification I had no idea what to expect. I was out of my comfort zone and coming off heroin. I felt alone and thought I could never get sober. I was being stubborn and didn’t want to belie…

Painkillers Are America's Number ONE Killer Drug

… abuse kills more people in the U.S. than any other drug. Deaths from overdose exceed those from heroin and cocaine combined . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared that …

Narcan-Resistant Fentanyl Found in Pennsylvania

…d of drugs and drug addiction. First, it was elephant tranquilizers being found in batches of heroin across the nation. Then, the number of deaths related to Fentanyl shot through the roof. And …

CDC Reports Drop in Painkiller Prescriptions

…sed. Depressed because it seems as if no matter what we do, the problem continues to get worse. Heroin and Fentanyl addiction climbs to an all-time high, overdoses are soaring and families across t…

Elephant Tranquilizers to Blame in Michigan Overdose Spike

… Elephant tranquilizers were the new heroin almost two years ago after carfentanil found its way onto city streets and started causing mass overdoses all o…

How to Detect Fentanyl in Heroin

… If you’re reading this in hopes of getting actual information about how to figure out if the heroin  you just bought has fentanyl  in it, we need to have a different conversation. The problem i…

Is Smoking Weed after Rehab a Good Idea?

…n I would like to admit. For anyone who has been to treatment before, you’ve probably heard the heroin addict, the meth addict or the  cocaine/crack addict talk about their plans to still go out…

I Finally Got to the Root of My Problems!

…enting with other drugs like cocaine, meth, and prescription pills. But once I tried heroin, I fell in love. Heroin started taking over my life from the very first moment I tried it. I spent all of my…