What is Low Dose Naltrexone? The standard dosage of naltrexone is 50mg. A 50mg tablet can be taken daily for conditions such as alcohol use disorder and opioid use disorder. Naltrexone is also used for a variety of other medical conditions. It has been used for fibromyalgia-related pain and even for obesity. For these alternate uses, it is usually prescribed in low doses, in the range of 2mg-5mg daily. This is known as LDN or low dose naltrexone. As discussed on one well-known naltrexone podcast, a compounding pharmacy in Jacksonville, Florida is producing a wide variety of naltrexone compound products to meet the needs of patients who are prescribed LDN.
Primary Care
The decision of whether a doctor on Suboxone can treat patients may depend on the specialty of the doctor and the types of cases they normally handle. For example, the board may be uncomfortable with a surgeon taking Suboxone, yet, they may have no issue with a primary care physician or family doctor on Suboxone.
Smoking Cessation
It has been said that nicotine is the most addictive drug on the planet. The reinforcing effects of nicotine as it stimulates the nicotine receptors, leading to increases in dopamine, are powerful. Tobacco users may feel helpless when attempting smoking cessation.
Emergency Care
Legal Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Safe Although various agencies, have been working diligently to effect change in the ways that physicians prescribe pain medications, Oxycontin remains highly prescribed as physicians try to best assess which patients require pain medication and which patients are drug seeking. Though many physicians, especially pain management specialists, have strict rules for patients who receive Oxycontin, and even though physicians, emergency room doctors, and other doctors who prescribe narcotic pain medications have continued to evaluate their prescribing practices in order to reduce the likelihood of abuse, the numbers associated with abuse and overdose from Oxycontin continue to be high. Narcotics in the United States represent an addiction epidemic, and when those narcotics come with a prescription label, as if to endorse the use of them, the issue becomes confusing both to the addict and to those who are concerned when certain behaviors and symptoms associated with the medicine arise. Following the prescription instructions may reduce the likelihood of problems, but even when Oxycontin is taken exactly as prescribed, a user can still become addicted. And it can happen very quickly.
Knowing what job a patient does may contribute to better understanding the patient’s health condition. For example, if a patient has wrist pain, and they work in a pharmacy, maybe they are developing carpal tunnel syndrome due to screwing caps on bottles all day.
I have discussed sound therapy, primarily the use of binaural beats, with at least two guests on the program. These meditative and fascinating sound programs can help to facilitate meditation and improved sleep. There have been studies to demonstrate their effectiveness in treating anxiety disorders and ADHD.
Depression
Mental Health
Whether you are a man or woman interested in addiction treatment or mental health treatment, or a person trying to overcome a drug addiction, listening to a sobriety podcast or recovery podcast is an excellent way to get motivated and to learn more about what options are available. While the AA Big Book and the NA Basic Text are excellent references, there is an entire world of alternatives in addiction treatment and recovery beyond these long-standing programs.
Psychiatry
Dr. Kendra Campbell is the founder of Free Range Psychiatry, an organization that believes in the potential for human beings to thrive without the need…
For example, if a woman falls and breaks her hip, her husband is likely to be understanding that she will have to limit her activities, and she will need physical therapy to recover from her injury.
The rise and fall of hydrocodone. Why was hydrocodone the most prescribed opioid in history? As has been discussed on various hydrocodone addiction podcasts, it was due to several factors. First, in the early part of the new millennium, doctors were encouraged to treat pain more aggressively with opioid medicines. In fact, there were stories in the media of doctors being disciplined for not prescribing adequate pain meds to treat moderate to severe pain. As doctors became more comfortable with opioid prescribing, inevitably, they would turn first to the opioids that were less restricted by the federal government. Hydrocodone was a Schedule 3 narcotic, meaning it could be prescribed with less restrictions than “stronger†opioids, such as oxycodone. A patient could even be given up to six months of refills of hydrocodone. Hence, Vicodin and similar brand name meds were being prescribed for everything from a dental cavity to a twisted ankle.