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What Happens During an Opioid Overdose?

What Happens During an Opioid Overdose?

by | Sep 9, 2018 | Articles

What Happens During an Opioid Overdose? Opioids are a type of drug that includes heroin, synthetic opioids and pain relievers prescribed by doctors. [1] Common prescription opioids include oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, fentanyl, codeine and many others including...
Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS)

Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS)

by | Jul 5, 2018 | Articles

Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) The Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale or COWS is just that. It is a scale that a clinician uses to measure opiate withdrawal symptoms. A trained clinician will use this scale in an inpatient setting or as part of outpatient...
Attending Christian Drug Rehab, Not A Christian

Attending Christian Drug Rehab, Not A Christian

by | Jun 29, 2018 | Articles

Attending Christian Drug Rehab, Not A Christian One of the considerations that many make is determining whether to consider when looking at Christian drug rehab, not a Christian. Will this be the right environment? Of course, someone who is already Christian will...
Reverse an Overdose with Naloxone

Reverse an Overdose with Naloxone

by | Apr 27, 2018 | Articles

Reverse an Overdose with Naloxone Opioid overdoses are becoming increasingly common. Fortunately, the counteractive drug naloxone has been available since the 1970’s and has become available in a non-needle form, through nasal spray in 2014. Considered by many as the...
Drug Withdrawal Management & Why It’s Necessary

Drug Withdrawal Management & Why It’s Necessary

by | Apr 20, 2018 | Articles

Drug Withdrawal Management Drug withdrawal management, commonly referred to as “detox,” is a vital first step toward combating drug addiction. Substances like prescription opioids, benzodiazepines, heroin and alcohol can all cause severe withdrawal...

Our graduates tell their stories…

As I Arrived. I had a lot of emotions going on coming here: anger (getting “help”─again─but this time out-of-state), and fear (first time on a plane, going to the middle...
- Shari
When first arriving at St. Gregory I had mixed feelings about the health and wellness workouts. I came in at 136 lbs and didn’t think it was possible to reach...
- Chris
The good life is not merely a life free from addictions, physical and/or psychological—addictions that usually are the outward manifestations of deeper problems—but a life lived in harmonious balance, free...
- Matt
I came to St. Gregory’s at my all-time worst—physically, emotionally, and mentally. Having gone through a bad rehab experience once before, I had been very reluctant in succumbing to that...
- CJ
No matter where I start my thought process when reflecting upon my time before, during and after St. Gregory’s, I always seem to end up in the same place in...
- Kaele

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