Oxycodone Addiction

Oxycodone Detox

Oxycodone detoxification, administered during prescription dependency, can prevent the chemical imbalance from turning into a drug addiction.

“You can't imagine what it is like to be enslaved to Oxycodone,” says Susie, an Oxycodone detoxification patient. “The fear and loneliness you live with every day--I really believed I was going to die.”

Dr. Bernstein of the Waismann Method treats addiction patients through Oxycodone detox. He is well aware of the drug’s adverse effects:

• Changes in behavior
• Trouble concentrating
• Memory loss.

One of Bernstein’s patients Nick R. became addicted to Oxycodone following a construction accident. "I did all kinds of things I normally wouldn't do,” Nick says. “My dad would ask me to do something, I'd forget in the middle of doing what I was doing."

Oxycodone is an extremely powerful opiate drug, explains Dr. Douglas Merrill, Chairman of the Committee On Pain Medicine for the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Some medical experts say Oxycodone is no more addictive than morphine, codeine or other opium-based medicines.

Oxycodone’s chemistry functions similarly to the brain's endorphins, our "feel-good" chemicals. But when artificially administered, as in the case of Oxycodone, the body cannot absorb the drug properly, and it instead causes elation.

Given this pleasure-effect, Merrill affirms the inevitable abuse of Oxycodone.

Oxycodone Abuse

According to medical examiners in the State of Virginia (where the drug is manufactured), 68 deaths have been caused due to overdoses on some type of Oxycodone, since 1999.

"It's a good drug, and that is the problem," says Bernstein, as law enforcement and abuse specialists come to realize the scope of addiction and need for Oxycodone detoxification. Medical experts explain that the time-release formulation of Oxycodone quickly subjects patients to potential addiction.

In 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reported that no other prescription medicine in the previous 20 years has been abused by so many people once it came to market. The agency blames part of the problem on initial overselling of the drug's benefits in absence of adequate information about potential abuse.

“Many people we treat in the Oxycodone detox procedure took the drug just as prescribed by their physicians," states Bernstein.

"Most people come into Oxycodone treatment innocently," he says. "You cannot say someone is an addict because they have pain and want to alleviate it." That untreated drug dependency, he continues, develops into an addiction if untreated through Oxycodone detoxification.

The Waismann Method Rapid Oxycodone Detoxification

The Waismann Method treats addiction medically by putting the patient under anesthesia and inducing rapid withdrawal with another drug that blocks the brain’s opiate receptors. While asleep, the patient has no conscious awareness of painful withdrawal.

Withdrawal from Oxycodone without anesthesia can be scary, even for people who took the narcotic as prescribed, said Bernstein: "People shake, rattle, roll, sweat, and experience vomiting and diarrhea when withdrawing."

Without Oxycodone detoxification, dependency makes patients like Suzie believe they are going to die because of the withdrawal pain from trying to stop. After rapid Oxycodone detox, she states, “You gave me the courage to live again.”

The Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification Under Anesthesia provides a medical solution to Oxycodone dependency.

Rapid Oxycodone detoxification under anesthesia is a clinically proven procedure effective for Oxycodone addiction. And opiate rapid detoxification cleanses a wide range of other opioids including: Codeine, Darvocet ®, Dilaudid ®, Heroin, Hydrocodone, Lorcet ®, Lortab ®, Methadone, MS Contin ®, Morphine ®, Oxycodone, OxyContin ®, Percocet ®, Percodan ®, Stadol ®, Suboxone ® (Buprenorphine ®), Tramadol (Ultram ®), Vicodin ®, and others.

Read Susie’s story.

Optional After-Care and Treatment Center

The Waismann Method for Rapid Detoxification also offers a peaceful after-care program--called Domus Retreat--where Oxycodone detox patients can recuperate in an environment of dignity, respect, and optimism.

Domus Retreat provides intensive psychotherapy to rectify core thought patterns that contribute to dependency. Psychotherapists help patients to replace harmful repetition and to evade relapse. Distinctive care at Domus Retreat also includes:

• Individualized therapy
• Small group sessions
• Ultra-luxurious spa treatment
• Exclusive retreat services
• An intimate setting, limited to 6 patients.

Post-detox care at Domus Retreat offers significant and lasting change for your sustained recovery after Oxycodone detoxification.

Learn more about the Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification from Oxycodone detox.