EXCHANGE: Medication aids helps to ease opioid dependency
October 7, 2018
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Cecily Melton, 30, shook her head quickly when asked if she could have tackled her opioid habit without help from a medication called Suboxone.
"No way," said the mother of five, more than three years after she weaned herself off opioids and restarted her life.
"I think I could have managed to get off it, but is recovery just getting off pills or is it in the mental health you get while you get clean? I don't think that I would have managed as well as I have done now without the people who have helped me along the way."
A former Army wife, the Bartonville native became...
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