OK, sometimes I admit I go for forgiveness rather than permission.Last week the CEO of The Coleman Institute saw a large boxy head with dangling tongue sticking out from the door of one of our beautiful treatment rooms...
This month I was very grateful and delighted to be picking up my 25 year medallion to celebrate my 25th sobriety birthday. On October 28, 1984 I had a near fatal overdose and was forced to enter treatment. Since that time I have been blessed to be able to stay clean and sober...
I love a good song. As a matter of fact, I am “thankful” for music. It expresses what words can’t say. But sometimes the lyrics to a song can move you too. Take...
I am in the luxurious position of spending most of my time doing exactly what I want to do...
If you think tramadol is a benign drug because it is not a controlled substance in the US, think again.Yesterday we started an Accelerated Opiate Detox on Gus, a 30 year old man from Arizona...
Suboxone has flooded the country as a maintenance medication for opiate addiction. Undoubtedly it has its place, but from where I sit, it’s also creating a lot of problems.Suboxone contains a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone. Buprenorphine is an opioid medication. ...
Just a short and sweet message: we have started measuring the blood levels of naltrexone in patient’s receiving our new 1.4 gram implant. Although it is early in our study, the results are promising. At 8 weeks post-implant, the levels of opiate-blocking naltrexone are still stro ng. ...
Many of our patients come from around the country-and some from farther than that—for an Accelerated Detox, either from opiates, benzos or alcohol. For our local patients (or anyone traveling here in mid November) I invite you to attend our monthly wellness seminar. ...
Eight years ago at 230 pounds, Larry was a body builder. One day at the gym he was doing squats without a spotter and ruptured a disc.When he came to see us in July of this year, he was 175 pounds and he’d been through eight years of escalating opiate use. . ...
It was so gratifying to see Chris today! He had detoxed from Oxycontin a couple months ago and came to The Coleman Institute for a naltrexone implant.We have the expectation that when people return for their 2nd implant, many aspects of their lives will be better...
Every month at TCI/Hamilton Family Practice we offer a free workshop, open to all our patients and their families. They are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 7 to 8...
A lot of patients are coming to us because they are having a very hard time getting off alcohol. Detoxifying off alcohol is very uncomfortable, both physically and psychologically. It can also be very dangerous medically...
SPLASH! Diving to the bottom of pool, I grinned underwater as I enjoyed the rush from the high dive into the deep end of the pool. I surfaced and swam towards the ladder. And once again, it came back. What, you might ask? That old familiar tune, you know the one...
I saw a cartoon recently that provides a powerful metaphor for how a person can be trapped by his or her own thinking-- and if you don’t know by now, your thoughts determine what your life is like. Period.It is a picture of 2 guys facing each other wearing defeated expressions on their faces. ...
