Opioid Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment | Mass General Brigham
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
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What are opioids? What is opioid addiction? Is addiction a disease or a choice? Joji Suzuki, M.D., M.Sc., Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Program Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program, answers patients’ most commonly searched questions about opioid addiction.
Joji Suzuki, M.D., M.Sc., Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Program Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program, answers patients’ most commonly searched questions about opioid addiction.
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0:00 - Intro
0:16 - What are opioids?
1:19 - What is fentanyl?
1:46 - What is opioid addiction?
2:16 - Is addiction a disease or choice?
2:56 - What are the warning signs?
4:07 - How to use opioid pain medication safely?
4:42 - How is opioid addiction diagnosed?
5:33 - How is addiction treated?
5:53 - Are medication treatments safe?
7:17 - Where can I seek help for opioid addiction?
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Opioid Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment | Mass General Brigham
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Once we've stopped criminalizing addiction and treat it like the disease it morphs into... across the board worldwide, then the stigma can decrease and the healing begins. Once the addiction starts you'll never not be an addict. Nobody chooses that lifestyle I can say that much. It's a nightmare.
The best that I could explain addiction is, YES we have an unbelievable urge to try drugs in the first place, we have “addictive personalities.” We crave the “change of mind and feeling” after being addicted. We do too much and don’t k ow our limits. It will show in our actions and especially our relationships. The only CHOICE we have is to try our best to fight that urge and the intense cravings. it’s everyday and it’s strong at first, but the more you make a routine and change your people, places and things, the easier it’ll be. Most of us are right or flight and can relapse at any time. I’ve been clean since 2016.
I agree. Great way to put it. Happy for you!!!
I agree with you, I have personally fought with this myself. However I’ve been clean for a few months now and I’m feeling better everyday. Just have to have the willpower. I lost a lot all my friends are gone and I lost my girlfriend also. All that happened (friends leaving) after my father passed away and I was just a terrible person. Even though all that happened it took that shock in my life to push me to do better and be better. Life is only what you make of it people and I was clearly wasting mine on this shit.
I appreciate this information. The better informed make informed choices.
So many people struggle with this, thankyou
Its truly heartbreaking what some people go through with the opioid epidemic.
Opium, from poppy plants, is the key ingredient for heroin and codeine as well, not just morphine.
Thanks for this video Dr.
Mental Awareness and had experience with addiction you'll know why there's a problem. Not many people have doctors
word of advice: if your reading this cause your thinking about getting clean; It will be the best choice you make, and may not be easy, but it is possible. If you don't think your strong enough, think about the lengths you have traveled to make sure you had that fix, or pill, whatever, so you didn't get sick. put that effort into kicking this crap! Suboxone, or methadone really does work. you are definitely worth it!
iam not talking out my ass either, I was on heroin literally living under a bridge for five years before getting on methadone, and haven't touched that crap in 13 years. I have a modest apartment, my family don't tell strangers I died anymore, and people think I am a normie and wouldn't associate me with that lifestyle. and let me tell you: when you have your normie neighbor think your a normie yourself your life is going good and it is worth it in the end.
Hi, I'm Timber, and I am an alcoholic. I have been sober for over a year now. Long enough to see and know that drinking never makes anything better. I know what it feels like to want something in a harmful way. I had to have emergency surgery last year. I went to the hospital and was admitted, plus HAD to have very strong painkillers. The surgeon wanted to 'make an appointment to come back for surgery on Monday'. My response: "NO. I have an addictive personality. I refuse to be sent home with a script for oxycodone. I live alone. I might hurt myself." I had surgery the following morning, and the surgeon came back and said "I'm going to send you home with some painkillers." "Narcotics?" "Yes." "NO! I just told you yesterday that I have an addictive personality!" "Okay, then you will want an over the counter pain med....." "That's fine." YEAH, fine to have a doctor trying to push pain meds on an addict outside of a hospital setting. I hold my sobriety as close as I hold my children. No person will disturb THAT.
Where does someone go with no insurance for alcohol treatment..no sleep, the anxiety, stress all that won't go away, my brain won't stop messing with me. I dred "sleeping" or night time. It's been years yall
Asking for ME, not a friend.
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It irritates me that people abuse Rx drugs like opioids. It ruins it for the people that actually need the drug. Doctors will never give opioids anymore because of these irresponsible people. 😒
Can I suggest pulling people off suboxone after one year of total change of environment!
There is no reason for a person to be on the med unless they can not change their environment!
not true. Opiate addiction is permanent and life lasting. Some people can't ever live without medication but the problem is it's the wrong medication. If you had cancer and I gave you a medicine that isn't for cancer but also helps that's fine but it's an alternative and a substitute to what I really need. What people need is the drug they are addicted too and then to be tapered off that drug. They do this all over Western Europe like Portugal, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, U.K., Portugal countless more European countries and then Canada and Australia. It's got a 70+% recovery rate compared to the average American recovery rate of 10-%. It's hard to comprehend and even harder to agree with but yes, giving a heroin addict a very low dose of pure heroin on a daily basis under clinical supervision while slowly reducing their dose, with counciling and case management is in fact the easiest and most effective way to not only get someone clean but keep them clean.