I released my first Ecourse on Friday, December 4th, and only three days later there are over 30 people registered and going through the program at home on their computers. The Ecourse is called Ultimate Opiate Detox.
In this article, I’m going to teach you how this home Ecourse may be able to enrich the quality of your life. I’ll provide you with a list of the features and benefits of the program, but first I believe it’s important to back up just a bit…
You Are Not Alone
If you’re struggling with opiate addiction and finding yourself clueless about how to quit, you are not alone. In fact, you are part of an ENORMOUS population of people that share a common bond.
It is estimated that somewhere between 26.4 million and 36 million people abuse opioids worldwide, with over 2.5 million residing in the US alone. I too was once in your shoes…well, not exactly; though I may not have worn your exact pair of shoes, I certainly walked down a similar path.
Recovering from opiate addiction has been the most difficult challenge I’ve faced thus far in my 36 years of life. But I recovered, and if I can do it…anyone can.
However, the odds are not in your favor. Opiate abuse is increasing in exponential numbers, and for those individuals that actually manage to quit, it is estimated that 90% of them end up relapsing.
This staggering statistic confirms the poor prognosis: Opiate dependence is, in fact, a chronic, relapsing condition. But it doesn’t have to be. While of course, it is the opiate abuser’s responsibility to take charge of their own life, I am also of the opinion that traditional treatment approaches are failing miserably.
In the United States, if someone has become addicted to opiates and seeks professional help, they are often presented with the following solutions:
- Detox
- Outpatient Treatment
- Inpatient Treatment
- 12-Step Programs
- Other Self Help Programs
- Counseling (Individual, Group, and Family)
- Psychotherapy
- Sober-Living Houses
- Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
I want to STRONGLY emphasize that there is nothing inherently wrong with these forms of treatment. I’ve personally witnessed people having tremendous, life-altering success using them.
However, these traditional treatment modalities fail to help people quit opiates many times more than they succeed…and that is the main reason why I’ve developed this online course. I’m pretty disenchanted with the way opiate addiction treatment is going, and I want to provide you with another option.
My Story
After personally trying many of the traditional treatment approaches available, I wondered why I could never quit for more than a few days, weeks, or months at a time. This question ultimately led me down a less traveled path. Actually, I paved my own road.
I took it upon myself to study:
- Opiate Addiction
- Psychology
- Nutrition
- Supplementation
- Herbology
- Health
- Fitness
- Spirituality
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine
- Personal Growth
Along with these, I also studied many other relevant areas that I believed could help me find the answers I was PASSIONATELY seeking. As a result of my dedication to overcoming opiate addiction, I’ve made a truly remarkable recovery.
Within a few months of quitting opiates, I made it my life’s mission and purpose to help others recover from opiate addiction. To start living this purpose-driven life, I became a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor at an Opiate Treatment Program (OTP), where I helped many individuals learn how to live life without the need for opiates and other addictive drugs.
However, after my initial excitement working with people one-on-one, I soon realized that the combination of medication and counseling wasn’t producing results that I was proud of. Some days I felt like I was making a difference, but overall, it was very sad to see so many people stuck in their painful addictions.
My Passion For Opiate Addiction Recovery
Though I saw our treatment program working well for a small minority of people, my passion and commitment to helping as many people as possible led me to leave that career. In an effort to reach more people, as well as to have total freedom of creativity, I started a blog which I named OpiateAddictionSupport.com.
I started writing about everything I learned over the past few years. As soon as I ran short on relevant topics to write about, I began researching more than ever before. I became an “obsessed seeker of opiate withdrawal remedies,” and was one million percent dedicated to providing the most informative, helpful, and inspirational articles available on the internet.
It’s now been over a year and a half since I started my blog. There are over 100 articles to read, and last month there were roughly 40,000 visitors doing so. I spend on average one hour every day personally responding to blog comments, emails, and phone calls related to opiate addiction recovery.
Eight months ago I started my own coaching practice, and have been working with individuals one-on-one again. So far, my clients have a 100% success rate, meaning they haven’t gone back to active opiate addiction.
Ultimate Opiate Detox
After nearly four years of continually developing and refining my knowledge and skills, I’ve created a unique system of opiate recovery, which I call Ultimate Opiate Detox.
In this online course, you’ll learn how to effectively treat the following 4 primary aspects of addiction, which include:
- Biological (Physical)
- Psychological (Mental/Emotional)
- Social
- Spiritual
Early on in my studies, I realized the main reason why most treatment programs fail to help the opiate abuser make a long-term, sustainable recovery is that they don’t address all 4 of these important aspects of addiction. For example, I worked at an outpatient facility that provided medication and counseling.
While the counseling addressed the psychological aspect of addiction, the medications (methadone, Suboxone, and Subutex), while temporarily eliminating opiate withdrawal symptoms and cravings, actually exacerbated the biochemical imbalances in the long run…so it weakens the Physical Pillar instead of restoring it to balance.
In popular 12-step meetings such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotic Anonymous (NA), the group members are heavily exposed to social and spiritual elements of recovery, though the physical and psychological realms are for the most part unattended to. The commonality that most traditional treatment approaches share is their failure to address the physical aspect of addiction.
In his book, End Your Addiction Now: The Proven Nutritional Supplement Program That Can Set You Free, Dr. Charles Gant makes a very simple and thought-provoking statement:
The recovery process is frequently described as the restoration of body, mind and spirit. The problem is that many programs have focused only on the latter two and have ignored the “body” component of recovery.
Addictions are physical substances causing physical changes to a physical organ, the brain. So how do we conventionally treat them? With group therapy and spiritual counseling. Doesn’t make sense, does it?”
How This Course Can Help You
Addiction is a 4-part malady (Bio/Psycho/Social/Spiritual), and my system of recovery effectively treats each of these fundamental components in a natural, holistic way that is conducive to long-term recovery, health, and happiness. By completing this course, you’ll learn simple and effective principles and strategies for recovering from opiate addiction that can help you right away.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re shooting heroin, snorting oxycodone, on Suboxone, Subutex, methadone, or even taking prescription opiates as prescribed for pain; Ultimate Opiate Detox can work for anyone. If you’ve felt hopeless, afraid, and desperate, this online course will ignite you with passion, confidence, and faith.
What You’ll Learn…
Ultimate Opiate Detox consists of 4 main sections, and each section is broken down into a series of activities.
Here is just a sample of what will be covered in the course…
- 1) The current nature of the worldwide opiate epidemic.
- 2) How opiates work in the body and mind.
- 3) How people become addicted to opiates.
- 4) Why it’s so hard to quit opiates (covers important discoveries of brain adaptations relating to opiate dependence).
- 5) Medication-Assisted Treatment (why it’s working but also failing).
- 6) Your individual starting position (what your current opiate addiction or dependence situation looks like).
- 7) Building motivation for your upcoming opiate detox (cultivating a winning mindset).
- 8) Popular opiate detox plans (you’ll be provided with a large “menu” of detox protocols to choose from, including at-home detox, medical detox, and more).
- 9) Opiate withdrawal remedies (there is an entire section covering prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, and natural remedies that can be used to reduce or eliminate withdrawal symptoms).
- 10) Studies on medications and natural remedies for opiate withdrawal (I’ve collected and linked to every single study I could find on the internet that relates to an effective treatment of opiate withdrawal symptoms).
- 11) Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (an overview of why people coming off opiates still suffer from symptoms for many months after getting clean).
- 12) Bio/Psycho/Social treatment plan for treating Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (over 20 extremely effective strategies for reducing cravings, lingering symptoms, and for boosting energy and mood).
- 13) Creating a new vision (the final section has exercises that will help you create the life of your dreams, free of addiction, and filled with love, happiness, and fulfillment.
Recovering From Opiate Addiction is a Journey
I truly honor you for the courage it takes to embark on this formidable journey. Because even when armed with the most effective strategies, recovering from opiate addiction is NEVER an easy task. You’re going to be tested, and I’ll tell you right now the most important resource you’ll need is strong mindset. If you don’t yet have one, this online course can help you develop it.
As for right now…it’s time to make a decision.
Do you want to continue living a life where you are not realizing your ultimate potential? Or would you rather seize the day and decide right here and now that you are no longer willing to accept your current life conditions?
The choice, as always…is yours.
Sincerely,
Matt Finch
I’ve been battling my oxycodone addiction for over 8 years now. I am almost 27 years, & started heavily using pills when I was 18. It started with an abusive ex boyfriend who would beat me up then feed them to me after. After I got out of that relationship, I kept using to mask the psychological effects of the abuse & also the lasting physical issues that arose too. Then a few years later, BAM. I found myself in an extremely more abusive relationship w a man who used my addiction to keep me co dependent on him so he could manipulate me into believing he was only person who would accept me as being addicted to pills. Finally last summer, almost 1 1/2 years after finding strength to get out of that relationship, I made the decision to get help. I was in a MAT program, that helped me tremendously to get clean & stay clean. I finally was starting to learn who I was & accepted myself & actually loved myself for once in my life. Then came another storm. I got into some legal trouble stemming from while I was in my active addiction, I choose to surround myself with some pretty bad people, whom I naively believed were my friends & cared about me, but in reality were only using me for a nice place to stay & either using my pills with me, or benefited from me spending money w them to obtain the pills. They had did some very bad, illegal crimes, unknown to me, & as the saying goes I was considered guilty by association. After going to jail & released on a $150,000 bond, I hit rock bottom again. Terrified of going to prison for something I didn’t do, being depressed realizing those I cared about & tried to help, didn’t care the least about me,& having to put my family thru this ordeal as well (I was in the paper & on the news, very embarrassing) I pretty much lost myself again & started doing pills thinking I could just “dabble” here or there to manage the stress. Next thing I know, here I am. Full blown relapse, to where if I’m not using everyday, I withdrawl. I feel like I’ve not only let myself down, but deceived the few people who have actually been here for me thru all this turmoil. Not to mention my new boyfriend, who was my biggest supporter during my stint getting clean. He made sure I made it to every meeting & appointment, even if he had to miss out on his life, just to help me. & at time, we were only friends. No one knows I’ve relapsed, although they do have their suspicions, especially him. My guilt is over whelming me. I can’t go back to the MAT program, because I have 2x week urinalysis since I’m going thru the court proceedings, & also because if anyone found out, I’d lose them for sure. I know I’ve kinda went off the deep end, but my point is, your writings have given me a new found hope that I can get thru this without the sub’s again. Thank you so much for sharing your experience & valuable insight. You just may have truly saved my life & my relationship.
Wow Mariko!!! I really appreciate you taking the time to share your story, struggles, hopes and goals. I’m really glad these writings have helped, and I wish you the absolute best of luck on your unique journey. Your mindset is in the right place, and keep that positive outlook going!
Matt…. I’ve been on opoets for about two years now. I have been prescribed oxyxodone for back pain and now I’m just addicted to the pills… I can go through 150 15mg in just a few days.. Now I’m out and withdrawal is insane what do I do???
I am new here. So my first question is this. I have had 2 neck surgeries, in an effort to rid myself of the relentless pain I was suffering from. The result has been even more pain and suffering. I have no idea why this is. At this point, I have to consider the surgeries to be a failure, since I am now worse off, than I was before. This said, a very long chat with a good friend, who has also had neck surgery (same level, but a bit different procedure and she also has lupus). She told me that she was actually taking more meds than I am, and that once she weaned off of all of it (slow and painful process) that the end result was that she still has pain, but can handle it (less than when she was taking the meds). She told me about the process the body has to go thru to rebuild natural pain fighting processes.
This whole subject, of course, scares the hell out of me. As I see it, I am now fighting TWO problems. I am opiate dependent. I am in pain, every day of my life.
I took this subject to my primary care physician. He offered to help me wean off of the pain, but told me that because I also have M.S. diagnosis, that the prognosis is not good. Actually, the surgeon has explained this also.
So I am ‘stuck’ in this place, where I am not sure what to do next.
So I am asking the question. What about the PAIN, which is the whole reason I am in this position, in the first place. How do I treat it? How do others ‘treat’ it? I’m not taking opiates because I am trying to ‘escape’ reality, or as a treatment for depression, etc. I am taking opiates for PAIN. Vastly different reasons, than a large percent of drug ‘abusers’ who take it for different reasons, than I do.
Any thoughts?
Two neck surgeries and the result is more pain and suffering? I had chronic pain for three years, alternating between my neck and my shoulder. After trying almost everything except surgery, with nothing ever really working, I read a few books that changed my life, that are about something called Tension Myositis Syndrome. I have no idea if this is what you have, but it couldn’t hurt to learn more.
I read several books on it, but this one is by far the best:
The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse
That is EXACTLY my scenerio! If I lift my shoulder, it helps relieve pain in my neck (but hurts shoulder). If I drop my shoulder..it hurts my neck. There is NO position I can be in, that doesn’t hurt.
The only thing that relieves the pain, is laying down. If I’m sitting or standing, its awful. Driving in a car, REALLY bad.
Bumps, or turning my head. The muscles are so knotted, on the right side of my neck, and top of shoulder, that you can visibly see the swelling.
Here is the website of the doctor that diagnosed me, saying my chronic pain was not due to a structural abnormality, but that it was from my personality, which generates a lot of tension on a daily basis.
MindBodyMedicine.com
There are a few other doctors that diagnose and treat TMS in America. Start off Googling more online and there are some other cool books on Amazon about it.
I also highly encourage you to watch this 7 part YouTube video that could really benefit you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCv3as7bdrM
Thank you, I bought the book! I am a Business Systems Analyst, BTW. Which means I work on a computer (and have) for 20 years. Facing a real quandary in my life course, at the moment. I’ve worked for many large corporations, and love what I do, but my ability to deal with stress has not been ideal, to say the least.
I’ve blown through 4 jobs, in one year, and though in hindsite they really weren’t good jobs, I didn’t handle them well. Pain is a constant companion, and makes for a very difficult work experience. I have no patience, and harder to hide frustration. I am angry, and embarrassed, as well. It as hard to have to add these blips, to an otherwise, beautiful resume’, track record.
I hear ya Lynn. Hopefully you’re on a new path now! I remember when pain was my (unwanted) companion. It ruled my life and I always obsessed about it. I was always studying on the computer on ways to overcome it. And I spent a lot of money on chiropractors, massage therapists, supplements, and even did traditional treatment such as physical therapy, NSAIDS, ice, etc. It took several months of learning this new way of viewing chronic pain, but as a result pain is not there anymore, and I can finally exercise all the time, whereas before I was afraid to do so, and when I did, I was always worried about hurting myself more. Best of luck to you!
If I place my hand right above my collar bone (where the shoulder begins) that band of muscles is INCREDIBLY painful, all the time. Turning my head to the left is painful, but more so, on the ‘return’, if you know what I mean. Its like a feeling that something is over extending. Its very weird. I literally came out of the surgery with frozen shoulder. I dealt with that for almost a year.
I had two discs replaced (C4-C5, C5-C6) with these devices:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LIeC8Sp8kE). The surgeon changed the dynamics of my neck a lot. I went from an ‘S’ shaped curve, to a ‘C’ shaped curve. But what I think is happening, is that it placed too much pressure on the facet joints, where the nerves exit. Kind of like the hinge of a door, the space got ‘tighter’ when the artificial devices were inserted, on the back side.
So they did a second surgery (foramenotomy), and came through back side, and removed some bone, at the facet joint (C5).
It didn’t do a thing to improve the pain. (thank you for reading, BTW). It sounds like you have been through one HELL of an ordeal!!! You give me some hope, given your story.
In on suboxene and just wanna live my life without taking something to function. What kinda diet do you recommend. I know nutrition Is a big part of my recovery and give my body the nutrients to get through it
Hi Jeffrey,
Please read the following article which has many nutritional guidelines:
How To Taper Off Suboxone Like a Champion
Matt have you ever heard of ibogaine as a therapy?
Yes I write about it in a few articles. Check out this informative and amazing free documentary:
Ibogaine: Rite of Passage
Hi Matt Thanks again You are a God Send !!! First posted on your PAWS (7-26)
Article. I still have a couple of surgeries ahead of me before I can quit this SH**. But I really think your information and guidance will help me stop using the Pain Pills.
Right on! Glad this info is helping you!
hi if i start just taking smaller bits of herion every day will that help ife tryed 2 or 3 times allready i use the tin faill please help thanks
just out of curiosity, did that work for you? tapering down with heroin?
Great blog/site man. I considered doing something similar but this is much more extensive.
As someone who also has come “through the other side” I can attest all 4 categories are important.
Getting through the acute withdrawals is just the first hurdle. If that’s all someone does with clonodine, gabatein, and benzos they won’t stay off opiates. I would guess as low as 5% don’t go back to opiates.
Thanks for the comment Jon. And I also agree that 5% seems to be an appropriate statistic. The brain just craves those darn opiates after stopping.
That is a VERY depressing statistic, you guys. Seriously? Question: How long does it typically take for a body to ‘reset’, and begin to take back the job of creating pain killing endorphins again? I get it, that I will never be completely out of pain again, but I’m curious to know, If you can give me an idea of what I’m up against? I have a GREAT job opportunity…one that I am so hoping will work out to be long term. I have three hour interview on Friday. I will be out of meds by Friday morning (not fillable again until 25th). I am currently taking 325/10’s, 4X a day. I have 25ml Fentinyl patch (10 patches per month). 600mg gabepentin (3X day). Ambien(.5)/Trazedone(50ml). That is my regimen. The hardest thing for me, of course, is when the meds start to wear off, and I’m going about my daily activities, and BOOM, my neck is screaming at me for relief. If I lay down, that helps. If I sit/stand, its ‘flame on’. What a life I have. My ‘dream’ is to land this job, and then if I do…I start on the 25th (heaven help me, if these threads are traceable, if you know what I mean.) Who wants to hire someone who’s fighting this battle, right? But I’m determined to make this work, whatever I have to do.