Ah yes…. another post about my book… Over the past few years, I’ve taken posts from this blog, posts from other sources that I’ve written, some sections of a ‘memoir’ that I have not gotten around to writing… and combined them in a book about addiction. The book does not Read more…
I’m often asked “hey, what is YOUR story?” That opens the door to a long, drawn out presentation… or I’ll just say “I have a book about the subject ready to go– do you know any publishers?” I DO have a book ready to go, by the way… and I welcome any Read more…
Had to mention that I heard that Steve Tyler went in for rehab for ‘pain pill addiction’ related to falling off a stage or some other injury… Wish I had that ‘falling off the stage’ line when Men’s Health did their story about me! I keep thinking that wil all Read more…
Reckitt-Benckiser, the first (but surely not last) manufacturer of orally dissolvable buprenorphine sold under the brand names Suboxone and Subutex, has been aggressively pushing doctors to refer addicts taking buprenorphine into a program called ‘Here to Help’ that they promote as something that will keep patients compliant with buprenorphine maintenance. Read more…
There are so many people who feel like the person who wrote to me today. I remember that feeling so clearly– that there was no solution– but now I see that there is another life, and that some people will find it. And tragically, some won’t. There are many different Read more…
A year or so ago I wrote an article about the relationship between Suboxone maintenance and traditional recovery. The article has been reprinted in several forms with minor changes from one copy to the next, but the general points are repeated here. I have received occasional comments from people who Read more…
I recently receive e-mails or read posts at Suboxone Forum that go something like this: I used all kinds of pain pills over the past ten years—Vicodin, then oxycodone, methadone, and even fentanyl patches. Then I got into heroin for a year and finally hit my rock bottom. I went Read more…