Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Monday, April 27, 2015

Tolerance

You have been taking x amount of drug x over a certain amount of time and pleasure decreases or plateaus, in order to get same pleasurable sensation, or experience you must take more or escalating dosages.


Sunday, April 26, 2015

Suboxone Treatment in Long Island

Name Address City State Zip Phone Url
Alternatives Counseling Services, Inc 540 East Main Street Riverhead NY 11901 (631) 369-1200  
Alternatives Counseling Services, Inc 291 Hampton Road South Hampton NY 11968 (631) 283-4440  
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital/Medical Center 365 East Main Street Patchogue NY 11772 (631) 854-1222  
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital/Medical Center 550 Montauk Hwy Shirley NY 11967 (631) 852-1070  
Hope For Youth, Inc. 201 Dixon Avenue Amityville NY 11701 (631) 842-7900 X6523 http://www.hfyny.org/
Outreach Development Corporation 11 Farber Drive Bellport NY 11713 (631) 286-0700 http://www.opiny.org/
The Pederson-Krag Center, Inc 55 Horizon Drive Huntington NY 11743 (631) 920-8000 http://www.pederson-krag.org/
The Pederson-Krag Center, Inc 11 Route 111 Smithtown NY 11787 (631) 920-8300 http://www.pederson-krag.org/
The Pederson-Krag Center, Inc 240 Long Island Avenue Wyandanch NY 11799 631) 920-8042 http://www.pederson-krag.org/
Seafield Center 7 Seafield Ln Westhampton Beach,  NY  11978 (631) 288-1122 http://www.seafieldcenter.com/%20Seafield/index.cfm
Hauppauge Intake and Maintenance Program  200 Wireless Blvd.  Hauppauge  NY 11788 (631) 853-7373   

Addiction: A devastating Cycle


Hotlines for Addiction, Protective Services and more

Name Phone Number
Adult Protective Services  (631) 853-2236
Birthright of Nassau/Suffolk Hotline (800) 550-4900
Brookhaven Sanctuary (631) 451-8011
CDC National Aids Hotline (800) 342-2437
Child Find of America (800) 426-5678
Child Protective Services (800) 342-3720
Fathers Rights Association (516) 783-1636
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Hotline (888) 843-4564
Girls and Boys Town National Hotline (800) 448-3000
Huntington Sanctuary Program (631) 271-2183
Huntington Hotline (631) 549-8700
Islip Town Runaway Program (631) 665-1173
Mental Health Emergency Hotline (631) 952-3333
Nassau-Suffolk Emergency Psychiatric Hotline (631) 952-3333
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (800) 843-5678
NYS OASAS Helpline (877) 8-HOPENY
Parental Stress Helpline (800) 367-2543
Runaway Hotline (800) 621-4000
Stony Brook Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) (631) 444-6050
Suffolk County Coalition Against Domestic Violence (631) 666-8833
Suffolk County Women’s Services (631) 853-8222
Tough Love (800) 333-1069
Victims Information Bureau (VIBS) (631) 360-3606
Youth Talkline (800) 246-7743
Islip Hotline (631) 277-4700
Response Hotline (631) 751-7500

Monday, January 19, 2015

You Probably Know Someone...

Specifically, what can this blog do to help readers and their needs?

I know families, friends, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives who are facing the devastating effects of opioids. With the ability to change the mental and physical chemicals in the human brain. Opioids have the ability to run or take control of individuals and their families in ways which were once thought was not possible. Your "standard" addict is obviously not your IV heroin abuser, but includes every and all persons of varied occupations, incomes, groups.

Pain pills are highly accessible for one thing and as we see their price increasing, the price of heroin a much faster acting and dirtier drug is often combined with other drugs. Unfortunately, these and other drugs of abuse are landing many of our loved ones in Emergency Rooms with Overdoses and often death. If those reading this blog think that individual who have drug dependence want to continue living their lives that way, I have news for you, they don't, many of them are embarrassed and it is one of the toughest illnesses to battle.

The fight is just beginning and we need to continue to fight. If you know someone that needs help, then help them. .

Monday, January 12, 2015

Think Twice when the Doctor hands you some pills

Some may not know why addiction to opiates is so strong and why people continue to use despite the negative attention they draw and negative effects its use has on their many aspects of life.
The analgesic (painkiller) effects of opioids are a function of reduced perception of pain, decreased reaction to pain and an increase in tolerance to pain.

Side effects of Opioids include but are not limited to euphoria, constipation, sedation, respiratory depression and more effects.

Repeated doses of opiates at no specific frequency or time (as everyone is different) can lead to drug tolerance.  Essentially, there is decrease in pharmacologic response following repeated or prolonged drug administration.
This essentially means the patient has to take higher dosages to achieve an effect which is in all likelihood far above the current level of tolerance. I will not go into the in-depth pharmacokinetics of tolerance but I will help you to understand the behavioral effects associated with opioid tolerance.

At some point the body becomes physical and mentally addicted. This is a point at which not only will the body not have the same analgesic relief it did on a previous low dose, but now if the patient stops the medication he or she may experience flu like symptoms including rhinorrhea, body aches, chills, sweats, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting to name a few. Often time individuals do not want to stop using drugs because of this horrible withdrawal syndrome.  You can count on being out of work a few days with these symptoms.

Opiates principally act on the central and peripheral nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract and so much of the side effects surround these symptoms and do the withdrawal symptoms.

At this day and age we are losing so many young and old patients losing their lives from opioids. Opioids have been easy to obtain as more pills than ever are being prescribed. With increasing street prices seen for such medicines as hydrocodone. Many have begun to seek and use heroin as it is quite a bit cheaper, however laced with bad and deadly other substances.

The ultimate goal is to get your loved one to find a practice and doctor first, stop using drugs and initiate treatment. Certain Steps are important as addiction surrounds and involves social, work and home life. Patients need to see a therapist, get rid of all paraphernalia and get rid of any phone numbers or reminders of the past practices.

The initial goal is to change the behavior of the patient (get used to living normal) but long term the goal is not to be on any treatment and able to remain opioid drug free without any crutch. Here is some anecdotal l information we have found from patients.