Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Usual Causes of Pill Addiction

Most patients who are treated for medication after surgery have reported overmedication thus becoming pain pills addicts. They describe the compulsive need to search and use these pain pills after expiration of their prescription, which results in countless hours spent in different doctor's waiting rooms to obtain more prescriptions to feed their drug addiction. That with chronic pain, the problem is a bit different in that their body builds toleration of the drug, needing higher doses just to feel normal.

If we take a look on the other side, “pill addiction” is a brain disease, and like any disease, it needs medical treatment. The first thing to do is to “detox off” (Detox - A process of a hospital or clinic in which patients are detoxified) the drug under medical supervision. Drugs that commonly prescribe are “methadone” or other drugs that has less effect to the body. Actually, it allows a full detox without requiring a daily trip to the clinic in a never-ending maintenance program or enrollment in a lengthy inpatient drug treatment program, and then you can be well on your way to recovery from pill addiction and drug free in short days.

Most people who have a pill addiction are able to successfully overcome it with proper treatment. At times, it is just simply a matter of disposing the pills and not taking them any longer. May be there are times you may actually have to go into a clinic for help with your pain pill addiction. But, it is a treatable addiction and one that you can fully recover from. Maybe at first it is hard to achieve these kinds of challenges getting involved in addiction, but with honesty you can face the truth and change.

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