Opiate Addiction
Opiate dependency was once viewed as a condition with no solution. Patients with opiate physical dependency were considered to have inherited an addictive personality or psychological disorder or to have suffered with a dysfunctional family life. The medical community lacked the desire to find a treatment for what they believed was a hopeless condition and refused to deal with it.
Opiate Detox
Rapid detox revolutionized the treatment of opiate addictions almost 10 years ago, allowing patients to return to a productive life in a matter of days and eliminating the need to spend months in and out of hospitals or rehabilitation programs.
Today, the name rapid detox has been widely used to describe and advertise all different methods of detoxification. On most cases these methods do not follow the appropriate safety and success intended by physicians studying detoxification under anesthesia.
Opiates suppress pain, reduce anxiety, and at sufficiently high doses produce euphoria. Most can be taken by mouth, smoked, or snorted, although opiate addicts often prefer intravenous injection, which gives the strongest, quickest pleasure. The use of intravenous needles can lead to infectious disease, and an overdose, especially taken intravenously, often causes respiratory arrest and death.
Opiate Addicts often take more than they intend, repeatedly try to cut down or stop, spend much time obtaining the drug and recovering from its effects, give up other pursuits for the sake of the drug, and continue to use it despite serious physical or psychological harm. Some cannot hold jobs and turn to crime to pay for illegal drugs. Heroin has long been the favorite of street addicts because it is several times more potent than morphine and reaches the brain especially fast, producing a euphoric rush when injected intravenously. But prescription opiate analgesics, especially oxycodone and hydrocodone, have also become a problem.
Addiction Enders has access to a database of hundreds of Drug rehab centers.
We can help you find the best opiate rehab center in Canada or the United States.
If you or someone you know needs help with an Opiate Addiction, please call us immediately.
Addiction Enders - 1-800-419-7941
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