Recovery Talk #5: Katherine (Finding Recovery Cafe)

Published October 31, 2012

Recovery Talk #5: Katherine (Finding Recovery Cafe) – Katherine on finding support for her recovery at Recovery Cafe.

'Methadone may be 'legal,' but isn't it as deadly as the heroin and Oxycontin …

Filed under: heroin addiction recovery

DAVE: Methadone was seen as a godsend when it broke on the treatment scene for heroin addiction in the 1960s. Unlike alcoholics who — supported by Alcoholics Anonymous –were reaching rates of recovery over 50%, heroin addicts were stuck at less …
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Recovering heroin addicts may lose their inner voice

Filed under: heroin addiction recovery

Faulkner and Cherie Marvel, also of Johns Hopkins, recruited six people who had never used drugs and six recovering from a heroin addiction who were taking methadone to help. They showed the volunteers an image, either of a word, a Chinese character, …
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