Oxycodone Addiction

Oxycodone Treatment

Oxycodone treatment, when overused or over-prescribed, subjects patients to possible drug dependency.

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

Dr. Bernstein of the Waismann Method treats patients for addiction to Oxycodone treatment. 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 treatment 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 treatment, the body cannot absorb the drug properly, and it instead causes elation.

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

Oxycodone Treatment Consequences

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 treatment, since 1999 (i).

"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 to Oxycodone treatment since its introduction. Medical experts explain that the time-release formulation of Oxycodone treatment quickly subjects patients to potential addiction.

In 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reported that so many people have abused no other prescription medicine in the previous 20 years 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 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.

The Waismann Method Rapid 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 treatment 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 detoxification, dependency on Oxycodone treatment makes patients like Suzie believe they are going to die because of the withdrawal pain from trying to stop. After rapid detox from Oxycodone, 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 detox is a clinically proven procedure effective for Oxycodone treatment and a wide range of other opiates including: Codeine, Darvocet ®, Dilaudid ®, Heroin, Hydrocodone, Lorcet ®, Lortab ®, Methadone, MS Contin ®, Morphine ®, Oxycodone, OxyContin ®, Percocet ®, Percodan ®, Stadol ®, Suboxone ® (Buprenorphine ®), Tramadol (Ultram ®), Vicodin ®, and others.

Optional After-Care and Treatment Center

The Waismann Method for Rapid Detoxification also offers a peaceful after-care program--called Domus Retreat--where Oxycodone treatment 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 from Oxycodone treatment.

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