The Coleman Institute

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. ...

Mark is here at The Coleman Institute with his wife, his son Mark Jr who is 5 years old and his father. Mark has been using 1000 mg of various oxycodone and hydrocodone pills for many years because of a back injury, and is going through an Accelerated Opiate Detox...

A small study by Dr Morin and colleagues, reported in JAMA in May 2009, studied CBT with or without sleeping meds. We know that Ambien and other sleeping medicines do help people sleep, but only in the short term...

I’d like to say that everyone who goes through an accelerated opiate detox at The Coleman Institute sails through it painlessly, or at least with minor discomfort. ...

I spoke with a patient the other day. He was a younger guy in his mid-20’s. Struggling with addiction, he had come to the Coleman Institute for Naltrexone Implant Therapy hoping to gain back his life from heroin abuse. ...