Painkiller Detox Rehab

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Painkiller Detox Rehab

With painkiller Addiction, the number one question we are asked at our rehab centers is, “I can get off painkillers, but how do I STAY off?”

Just getting off addiction to prescription pain meds can be gruesome. If the addict tries to simply stop using and, without help, just grit his teeth and tough it out, the Withdrawal symptoms can tear him up. It tears up everyone around him too.

Recently, a very concerned father called about his 27 year old daughter. She has had two back surgeries for which she’s been prescribed multiple pain medications. You guessed it, she has become very dependent on them.

It isn’t clear at this point if the pain in her body is from the injuries, the surgeries, or from her addiction to the heavy opioids she is on.

Heavy use of pain medications can actually perpetuate the sensations of pain after long term use; a little known fact that the pharmaceutical industry does not talk about.

And these medications don’t just mask the pain, they also change the way you function mentally. And if a person has emotional issues to begin with, the added effects of the drugs can lay the prefect foundation for a full blown addiction. Prescription Drug addiction is so common these days that more of our calls are for prescription meds than anything else.

So what needs to be done for this girl?

Two things: Detox her and then Rehabilitate her.

You could sit and try to “talk sense” for hours on end and it wouldn’t change anything. We won’t know what is going on until we find out how much of her pain is actually from the back injury and how much is from the addiction to prescription pain meds.

The word detox has somehow evolved onto a catch-all word that covers all aspects of recovery from drug addiction. In reality, it is only one part of the journey, albeit a necessary part. And detox is much more than just taking a holiday from the drugs for a week. By detox we mean actually cleansing the body of the residual drugs and toxins that had built up over the years of drug use.

Then, when she is really off drugs, it’s time for true rehab. See what is needed in the way of physical correction while she learns what she was missing to begin with, help her to gain the strength to live without the drugs, to live in the light of full awareness and not in the dim, drugged world she’s been struggling in for however long.

The skills that keep someone off drugs, month after month, year after year, are what must be learned, with the help of experts in the field of addiction recovery. That is real detox-rehab.

But getting help isn’t easy either. There are very few “free” rehab centers. And if you find one… get in line. The waiting list can be very long. It doesn’t do you much good when you hear, “Okay, we’ll help you…in six months.”

With scores of fine clean and modern detox rehab centers world-wide, the Narconon program has facilities ready to accept you or your loved one for treatment--treatment that includes both detox and rehab!

Tony Bylsma CCDC

Definitions of Terms Used

Term	Description
Addiction	Strong physiological, emotional and/or psychological dependence on a substance such as alcohol or drugs that has progressed beyond voluntary control. For more on addiction see the section Addiction Information in this website.
Drug	Any substance, other than food, that changes the function or structure of the body or mind when ingested. Drugs essentially are poisons. The degree they are taken determines the effect. A small amount acts as a stimulant. A greater amount acts as a sedative. A larger amount acts as a poison and can kill one dead. This is true of any drug. Each has a different amount at which it gives those results.
Narconon	A non-religious, non-profit drug rehabilitation program using technology developed by author L. Ron Hubbard. The Narconon program was originally organized in Arizona State Prison in 1966 by William Benitez, an inmate who was himself a drug addict. He applyed basic principles regarding self awareness and self assurance contained in books by L. Ron Hubbard and, by doing so, completely cured his own addiction to heroin. Mr Benitez then went on to help twenty other inmates do the same. Today there are Narconon centers in 45 countries.
Withdrawal	Symptoms that occur after chronic use of a drug is reduced or stopped.