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Suggest Treatment For Drug Addiction

I ve been snorting pills through the summer and now that I m back in school and want to quit I ve been experiencing some excruciating pain in my nose that is only relieved by snorting more. I ve cut down on how many I snort and only do it now when I m in pain. I ve went from needing pain relief every hour to now every 5-6 hours but I still can t get it to stop altogether.
Wed, 5 Aug 2015
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If there is a local problem in the nose, this is treatable by an ear, nose, throat doctor. One would have to be VERY HONEST wtih them for it to be helpful. On that note, the sorting can cause local damage. This is easily treated with medications that work right where you put them and are not absorbed. More severe damage might require (minor) surgery to fix.
If it is only the pain that is running the addiction it is easily treated. However, people can become so used to the medicine that they have withdrawal when it isn't there for > 1 day. This would be an indication for suboxone.
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Suggest Treatment For Drug Addiction

If there is a local problem in the nose, this is treatable by an ear, nose, throat doctor. One would have to be VERY HONEST wtih them for it to be helpful. On that note, the sorting can cause local damage. This is easily treated with medications that work right where you put them and are not absorbed. More severe damage might require (minor) surgery to fix. If it is only the pain that is running the addiction it is easily treated. However, people can become so used to the medicine that they have withdrawal when it isn t there for 1 day. This would be an indication for suboxone.