Oxycontin
Detox
You suffer an injury in a car accident, or you have a simple slip and
fall, or you lift a box awkwardly at work, or you strain a muscle while
playing golf, tennis or working out at the gym. Or perhaps, you're recovering
from surgery,Fibromialgia,back surgery, cancer treatment or severe arthritis.
In any case, your physician is likely to prescribe a painkiller to help
you manage the discomfort. Yet weeks or months later - long after the
initial injury may have healed - you're still taking Oxycontin or other
opioid painkillers. In fact, with pain and discomfort becoming more frequent,
you're taking an alarmingly higher dosage than you were in the beginning.
Unfortunately, the very drug that was supposed to help you is now hurting
you. The pain of injury or the fear of medical treatment has been compounded
by the painful discomfort of withdrawal. Rather than easing your pain,
you are experiencing intensified pain levels. Patients suffering at pain
levels of two or three often jump to levels of eight or nine after one
year of painkiller usage.
This scenario is increasingly common. Today, approximately 75% of our
patients suffer from a dependency to painkillers like Oxycontin . We
recognize that all patients who are physically dependent on prescription
pain killers as well as other opiates became dependent through no fault
of their own. Their disease is a chemical imbalance that requires expert
medical treatment in a safe, humane and effective environment.
Pain
Management Traps
The underlying problem is not only the drug, but also the pain management
specialists who often indiscriminately prescribe painkillers without
considering the long-term effects of dependency. Focusing primarily on
eliminating the symptom (pain), some physicians overlook the potential
consequences (dependency).
Research indicates that every year nearly two million Americans use
prescription opioid painkillers, and in some communities, abuse of prescription
painkillers has overtaken cocaine and marijuana use. The 2002 National
Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) showed that approximately 9% of
the U.S. population has used pain relievers illegally in their lifetime.
An estimated 1.6 million Americans used prescription-type pain relievers
non-medically for the first time in 1998. This represents a significant
increase since the 1980s, when there were generally fewer than 500,000
new users per year.
Among youth ages 12-17, the incidence rate increased from 6.3 per 1,000
potential new users in 1990 to 32.4 per 1,000 potential new users in
1998. For young adults age 18-25, there was also an increase in the rate
of first use between 1990 and 1998 (from 7.7 to 20.3 per 1,000 potential
new users).
In response to these challenges,
the Waismann Method sm offers patients a highly successful rapid
detox procedure for the treatment of Oxycontin dependency. Not only
does this procedure reverse opiate dependency, it also eliminates
the cravings that often accompany traditional detoxification treatments.
The Waismann Method sm has been clinically proven to be effective
for a wide range of opiates including OxyContin, Vicodin, Norco, Methadone,
Heroin, Stadol, LAAM, Lortab, Percocet, Dilaudid, Darvocet, Percodan,
Lorcet, MSContin, hydrocodone, Tramadol and others.
For more rapid detox treatment information, please call (310) 205-0808
or (888) 987-HOPE during business hours or send us a confidential
email.
For after hours and weekends, please call (310) 927-7155.
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