Drug Detox

When the phone rings in the middle of the night it's usually bad news. So, when the phone rang at 2:30 a.m. I was braced for the news as I struggled to find my phone before it woke everyone in the house. This pre-dawn phone call was no exception to the norm. The man on the phone was immediately apologetic for calling at such an early hour, my stomach flopped. I knew the news was coming, I just didn't know when or how, or even exactly what it would be.

One of the most important factors in a prescription drug detox treatment center is to understand that withdrawal symptoms will occur. Withdrawal is critical to a successful recovery. The reason it is so critical is because it's the number one reason people relapse and continue using.

There are many benefits of a medical detox to help with drug addiction. Of course, not all drug addicts need to follow this route, but if you've been using drugs for an extended period of time, or even tried quitting on your own and the withdrawal pains have been to intense and you've gone back to using to help alleviate the physical pain, then most likely you are a perfect candidate for this type of treatment.

Coming in at second of the 'most commonly abused' category drugs are prescription drugs. Marijuana tops the list. Not all prescription drugs are addictive. However, if they are used in a manner that is contradictory to the label, and of course not using them for what they are prescribed, a lot are. The most abused prescription drugs that often lead to a prescription drug detox include opioid or narcotic painkillers such as; OxyContin and Vicodin.

So, now you've tried to maintain an inventory, you've done the best you could to keep from using too much, but you've still found yourself with an addiction to prescription drugs. Did you know that long term use of prescription drugs, like pain-killers, can lead to death? Your body can build a 'tolerance' to the medication and you find you're using more just to cope. What you're doing though is building up more of the pain-killer in your system. So much so that if you try to quit you'll have painful withdrawal symptoms.

Prescription drug abuse has been steadily rising over the years, and you can barely turn on the television, open a newspaper or magazine, or even go to a news website without seeing one celebrity or the other being arrested, jailed, or even have died due to an overdose. But what is it that keeps people, celebrities or not, from searching out a prescription drug detox for the help they need? The question is a common one. Unfortunately the answers are not so common.

We've been enjoying looking up statistics, taking information and calculating percentages, so this blog will continue on with our Statistics Series 2010. Based on 2005-2006 National Surveys regarding drug use and health, we've found the following information. This covers areas from drug detox to the highs and lows of drug use in the United States.

It is estimated that in 2000 illegal drug use cost America close to $161 billion:

There is an old adage..."Sit in the barber chair long enough and you will get your haircut." How true those words are.

This stuff, this getting sober and staying sober isn't always really easy. It may seem that way at first, but it takes work. It takes diligence. It gets easier the more we use the tools we are given in alcohol and drug detox and rehab, and of course twelve step programs like AA.

I’d arrived at the drug detox and alcohol treatment center with my girlfriend. A very beautiful place in the mountains of Colorado. There was a main lodge where the groups, offices and cafeteria were at. There were small cabins where we stayed and often elk would be seen on the grounds around the facility. I was again dazed and confused about my condition and was off the drugs for maybe 24 hours at this point.