Painkiller Addiction
Painkillers, once prescribed, all too often open the door to tenacious
addiction and dependency.
In the U.S. alone over 15 million people have abused
prescription drugs with more than 2 million of these being teenagers.
Most teenagers using painkillers to get high assume they are safer than street drugs.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Doctors and drug
rehab professionals report painkiller
addiction as one of the most difficult
addictions to treat, the most serious being opiods. These are opium like compounds which interfere with the human nervous system as well as artificially stimulating portions of the brain. Painkiller addiction results in mental as well as physical addiction as well as increasing tolerance where higher and higher doses of the painkiller are craved in an effort to ease the addiction Narconon Arrowhead has one of the highest success rates in handling
painkiller addiction to a full and lasting resolution.
Drug Rehab Information By State
A truly effective drug
rehabilitation experience involves several factors.
First of all of course is the cessation of current drug and alcohol use with a withdrawal process that is as painless as possible both mentally and physically.
Second is a truly effective
detoxification program which removes stored drugs, toxins, and poisons from the body. The New Life
Detoxification Program available at Narconon Arrowhead is state of the art
detoxification for Drug Rehabilitation.
Third is handling the Cravings (mental and physical), guilt and depression that go hand and hand with addiction.
Fourth is the acquiring of life skills needed to live a truly drug free, happy and prosperous life without constant fear of relapse. There are certainly other points of address, but these are the main categories to effective recovery in any drug
rehabilitation program. Narconon Arrowhead not only gets the individual clean, but more importantly assists them in acquiring the desire, mental outlook, and actual ability to live drug free for a lifetime!
In the field of
addiction treatment a
rehab clinic is generally meant to indicate a short term outpatient
treatment facility.
These can all too often be facilities where an individual receives replacement or supplemental drugs in an attempt to handle their drug or drugs of addiction.
A good example is a methadone clinic.
Methadone is more harmful and more addictive than heroin which it is meant to replace.
One
addiction is being substituted for another. This is not to say all
rehab clinics operate this way or are detrimental. Some offer valid short term options until full
rehabilitation services can be secured. This point of drug substitution is mentioned as a point to watch out for when considering a rehab clinic.
With most drugs there are short term effect, long term effects and
addiction side effects which would actually be long term effects resulting from abusive use of
illegal drugs and
addiction to
prescription drugs that can occur even at what is commonly considered ‘safe’ levels. Anti-depressants are a case in point.
Many of these legal medications have serious side effects including increased violent behavior as well as suicidal ideation when taken at prescribed levels, especially in youth.
Add in the fact that many of these drugs are taken at abusive non-prescribed levels as well as mixed with other
prescription drugs and illegal street drugs. With the current trends in
abuse and addiction inpatient medically supervised withdrawal is vital in most cases of addiction treatment.
Medical drugs are generally prescribed as short term solutions in the handling of pain.
Many of these
medical drugs will build up tolerance in the system requiring increased amounts for the same effect. Thus dependence sets in and one begins taking these at abusive and addictive levels before long.
This accounts for drugs like OxyContin being more and more used in illegal black markets to handle
addiction to them. Black market illegal use of drugs such as these is outstripping legitimate use and prescription.
Anti-depressants and anti-psychotics are much the same story with many school age children selling their prescriptions in the school yard.
Add the horrific side effects, some of which are life threatening, and what we see is an epidemic rise in the
abuse and
addiction to prescription medications.
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