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
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)
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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