An Addict's Dream or Nightmare???

We accomplish this by giving you a liquid narcotic cocktail in reducing doses every four hours around the clock until you are clean.

"You never go down, you never come off the meth and hit that bottom."

He really seemed sincere. He didn't sound like he was drumming up business or anything. I'm still not sure how I feel about this process.

Bottom line is your on your own after detox to make what you will of it, we plant seeds for recovery .

Medically supervised detoxification treatment has traditionally been seen as the gold standard and as the logical starting point of treatment. Traditional detox has involved treatment with prescription medications, which produce similar physiological responses, less psychoactivation, and which can be more precisely regulated and tapered as the patient's metabolism readjusts to functioning without the addictive drug (McLellan, Arndt, Metzger, Woody, & O'Brien, 1993). Taking an average of 3 to 15 days, depending on the abused drug, medical detox controls but does not eliminate subjectively uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms (Delfs, Zhu, Druhan, & Aston-Jones, 2000).

Universally accepted addiction treatment approaches are beginning to be challenged by the emergence of innovative treatment approaches based on new understanding of the neurochemistry of addiction. One such approach, rapid detox, has emerged as an alternative that is gaining in both acceptance and popularity, evidenced by its recent showcasing in television episodes of both "E.R." and "General Hospital."

Rapid detox is an umbrella term that has come to represent a new treatment approach specifically designed to detox patients addicted to natural and synthetic opiate drugs within hours, rather than the traditional days, and to almost completely eliminate the subjective discomfort of withdrawal symptoms. Started in Europe in the late 1980s and brought to the United States in late 1996 (Biddle, 1998), rapid detox programs have grown quickly in this country.

The compelling and distressful nature of withdrawal is one of the largest barriers to successful detox treatment from opiate dependency. Treatment of opiate addiction entails either controlled cold-turkey detox, with adjunctive drugs such as antiemetics used to mediate withdrawal discomfort, or attempts at detox using a traditional pharmacological-substitution approach, where a drug with similar pharmacologic effects but with less subjective euphoric "rush" is used instead.