Rapid Detox
Rapid Detox Ultra Rapid Detox, or Rapid Drug Detox, is a somewhat newer alternative for drug rehab that involves putting a patient who is addicted to opiates, prescription painkillers or other habit-forming drugs under a general anesthesia in a hospital. This is done with anesthesiologists and nurses who are trained to perform this type of procedure. Once under the general anesthesia, the patient is given a drug that counteracts the drug to which he or she is addicted. While the person is in this drug-induced coma, he or she can avoid experiencing the various physically painful and uncomfortable aspects of detox, such as shaking, sweating and delirium tremors. The body goes through some of this process while the person is still in a drug...
Process Addictions
In many circles of addiction treatment, the term “process addiction” is used to create a category of addictions which is different from substance addictions. Process addiction is an addiction to an activity or process, such as eating, spending money, gambling, or sexual activity. These addictive behaviors can be as debilitating as those associated with substance addictions, and they require psychological treatment. People sometimes have difficulty understanding process addictions, because they believe that people should just be able to stop negative behavior, but people with process addictions face the same problems that people with substance addictions do. You can think of a process addiction as compulsive behavior which is related to a...
Facts about GHB
For help finding a rehabilitation center for GHB abuse call – 1-877-744-3536 GHB – Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid The human body naturally produces GHB in the central nervous system. It was first produce synthetically in 1874 by “Alexander Zaytsey” and it was not researched for human usage until the 1960s by Dr. Henri Labonti. In the early years it was widely used a crossed Europe as a sleeping agent and at child birth. As time went on the medical community began to realize abuse and dependency on the drug and more regulations were put in place. GHB has several different street names; “ Liquid Ecstasy”, “Liquid X”, “Liquid G”. When a small amount of GHB is consumed the user will feel an...
Alcoholism Blog
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When to get help
For drug and alcohol addicts hitting bottom is not an option. In resent years the widely accepted believe that an addict must hit bottom and ask for help on their own has been completely dicredited. For many years this was believed and followed only to find that many addicts never sought help before their addiction turned fatal and the loved ones were left paying for a funeral rather then treatment. Rather then waiting for such a crisis to occur strategies have been developed to deliberately create a crisis and to use it to coerce the addict into treatment. In preparing for this event you must learn many things about addiction and how to...