New Leaf Treatment Center

What is a Drug?

Functions of the Reward/Pleasure System of the Brain

PowerPoint Presentation

Addicting Drugs: Mechanisms of Action

Neuroadaptation the brain goes ‘deaf’

Tolerance

Factors Affecting Tolerance

Withdrawal

Kindling

Definition of Addiction

Prescription Opiates

Opiate Effects

Opiate Effects

Intoxication

Slide 16

Managing Opiate Overdose

Physical Dependence

Slide 19

Opiate Withdrawal

Opiate Progression Pills to the Needle

A 33-year follow-up of narcotics addicts

C I M Model Treatment Withdrawal Management

Overview of Buprenorphine (Suboxone and Subutex)

C I M Model Treatment Withdrawal Management

Withdrawal Management Opiate Oral Dose Equivalents

Withdrawal Management Opiate Substitution

Withdrawal Management Substitution Methodology

Withdrawal Management Completion of Substitution Phase

Slide 30

Withdrawal Management Taper Phase

C I M Model Treatment Components of Treatment

Causes of Craving in Addicts

C I M Model Treatment Relapse Prevention Workshop

Special Problems in Former Opiate Addicts

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