Personal Business; Dealing With Addiction, and What Comes After
ADDICTION costs corporate America billions of dollars a year in lost productivity, absenteeism and higher health care expenses. It also derails many once-promising careers. More companies are willing to offer assistance these days, especially as they deal with higher levels of employee stress from heightened workloads and job cuts. Yet many workers are still reluctant […]
Addicted to Painkillers : My Doctor Got Me Hooked on Drugs – Part 1
A growing number of women are becoming addicted to the prescriptions their M.D.’s insist will heal them. Here’s why – and how to tell if you could get in trouble with your next Rx. After having back surgery in May 2001, Vicky, 34, was prescribed OxyContin, a powerful pain reliever. But the drug did more […]
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Addicted to Painkillers: My Doctor Got Me Hooked on Drugs – Part 3
While Berry would like to enroll in an inpatient or outpatient drug rehabilitation program, neither is covered by her health insurance – a common predicament with prescription-drug abuse, says Steven Juergens, M.D., an addiction expert at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. “Prescription-drug withdrawal can take up to three weeks, while withdrawal from alcohol and […]
Addicted to Painkillers: My Doctor Got Me Hooked on Drugs – Part 2
Another factor that’s leading patients down the path to addiction, says Colvin, is that many doctors don’t check in with patients after those patients start taking these drugs. Use of OxyContin, for example, should not exceed seven days without reassessment by a doctor; use of Xanax should not exceed two weeks without reassessment, according to […]
Addicted to Prescription Painkillers
Fast recoveries are the focus for the Waismann Institute’s rapid detox program. Opiate dependency has risen dramatically in the last several years due to an increase in addiction to prescription painkillers. The Waismann program helps patients kick dependency through a three-day treatment process, submitted in a hospital setting. “These are patients, they’re not drug addicts,” […]
Patient of Suspended Doctor Recalls Lortab Addiction
Sherry Heuel was up to 20 painkillers a day when she realized she wasn’t getting any better. In fact, the Camarillo mother of three felt much worse than she had on the day 18 months earlier when she walked into Dr. Michael Huff’s office suffering from migraines and poor sleep. But she couldn’t bring herself […]
More CHS Students Arrested in Drug Case
CEDAR CITY — Two more Cedar High School students have been arrested in connection with the series of drug charges filed since Friday, bringing the latest total to eight. A 15-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday and charged with theft for allegedly stealing some Lortab tablets from a friend’s house. A 14-year-old boy was arrested at […]
Clean and sober in 48 hours?
‘Rapid detox’ promises opiate addicts an easier out, but some doctors call for more studies to prove its value. October 28, 2002|Daniel Costello | Special to The Times Lisa Hill, a 27-year-old prescription drug addict, lies in a hospital bed in Tustin, about to undergo her third detox attempt. A few minutes later, doctors […]
Winona Ryder’s Defense Plans – Celebrity Justice
When Winona Ryder last went to court, the prosecution dropped the drug charge against her. Deputy District Attorney Ann Rundle explained that the prescription came from a doctor. When Ryder was arrested for shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, she was caught with a painkiller called Endocet, in the same drug family as […]
