ADDICTION FACTS • ANYONE CAN BECOME ADDICTED. DRUGS DON’T CARE WHERE YOU LIVE OR WHAT YOU DO. TAKEN IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITY, YOU WILL BECOME ADDICTED. • OPIATES ARE ADDICTING NO MATTER HOW THEY MIGHT BE USED. WHILE MANY PEOPLE THINK OF OPIATE ADDICTS AS “IV- NEEDLE USERS,” MOST ARE PERSONS WHO
MEDICATIONS SUCH AS METHADONE OR BUPRENORPHINE (IN THE FORM OF FILM OR TABLET) COUNSELING SERVICE WE ALSO PROVIDE EVIDENCE-BASED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL AND MOTIVATIONAL COUNSELING SERVICES BASED ON THE LEVEL OF NEED UP TO AND INCLUDING AN INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT PROGRAM. ADDICTION TO DRUGS INCLUDES PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. WHILE THE STEREOTYPE MAY REFLECT SOME SORT OF DEPRAVED CRIMINAL, THE REALITY IS THAT OPIOID ADDICTED PERSONS ARE MOST FREQUENTLY PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE EVERYDAY PEOPLE. STUDENTS, MOTHERS, FATHERS, NEIGHBORS, AND EVEN DOCTORS AND LAWYERS ARE REPRESENTED AMONG ADDICTED PERSONS. SADLY, TOO MANY PEOPLE ALLOW THE STIGMA ASSOCIATED WITH OPIATE ADDICTION TO KEEP THEM FROM GETTING THE HELP THEY NEED--HELP THAT MAY SAVE THEIR LIVES. HERE IN THE FOX VALLEY REGION, WE HAVE AN OPIATE USE DISORDER EPIDEMIC AND AMS OF WISCONSIN, OSHKOSH IS HERE TO HELP. IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION, MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LIFE BY GETTING IN TOUCH WITH US. WE CAN HELP.
UNTIL THEIR LIVES ARE DESTROYED OR WORSE. SADLY, DEATH FROM OVERDOSE, SUICIDE, OR OTHER MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS ENDS THE LIFE OF AN OPIATE-ADDICTED PERSON. • ASSOCIATED HEALTH RISKS WITH PARTICULARLY RISK OF HIV, HCV RELATIVE TO IV DRUG ABUSE • CONTRAINDICATED MEDICATIONS, POSSIBLY PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION
HAVE NEVER CONSIDERED USING A NEEDLE. ADDICTION CAN GROW FROM SMOKING, SNIFFING, AND SWALLOWING NARCOTIC DRUGS.
INTERACTIONS AND THE NEED TO COORDINATE CARE BETWEEN MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.
• LESS THAN 10-20% OF THOSE NEEDING HELP EVER GET IT. FAR TOO MANY PERSONS EXPERIENCE A DOWNWARD SPIRAL
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