What Drug Is Used to Treat Oxycontin Addiction Recovery?
Question by zigzagg11: What drug is used to treat oxycontin addiction recovery?
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Answer by stascia
depends on how bad the addiction is.
if the addiction was very severe, some places are using methadone treatment, which is normally reserved for heroin addicts (but since heroin and oxycontin are both opiates it works as well). methadone treatment involves going to a clinic everyday and getting a dose of methadone, which is an opiate itself. it is a lighter, less addictive opiate and gives a person a ‘buzz’ just like any other opiate. however, the dose of methadone, over time, is decreased, and the addict gets less and less of the drug. this type of treatment cuts down on all the crappy side effects of opiate withdrawal, such as DTs, hallucinations, auditory disturbances and etc.
Answer by Becca
I have had experience with Methadone and Ultram used, which both help
But they are both also physically addictive so at one point you simply go from a very bad addiction to a moderate one and then you still have to get thru some withdrawls anyway
I don’t know of any long term treatments for recovery from opiates…….generally just going thru the detox and withdrawls process and maybe a drug like xanax if there is some lasting anxiety
truth is nothing is going to compare to Oxcycontin and you have to either really want to get off it or have no choice, its hard to stop something that makes you feel good AND have to feel like Hell in order to do it!
There are Rapid-Detox programs, which are very expensive and not to my knowledge covered by insurance. In these you are sedated with a general anesthesia or a high dose of tranquilizers, then treated with narcotic antagonists, drugs which rapidly (and very very painfully) detox you in under 12 hours while you presumably sleep thru it
I am not really sure if a rapid detox this way is available without being a sedated in-patient in the hospital, i don’t think so as it is considered risky to subject a body to
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