| It doesn't matter how you got addicted to pain pills, | | | | (methadone or suboxone) through a gradual tapering |
| and whether you were prescribed medications for a | | | | of our dosage, or even through a rapid sedated |
| legitimate medical condition, or whether you abused | | | | opiate detox. Pain pill detox is tough, very tough, but |
| the drugs recreationally, once you become physically | | | | at its worst it only lasts for a few days, and once |
| and psychologically dependent, you need help. | | | | past it you can begin the bigger task of bettering |
| And you are not alone. | | | | your psychological dependency. |
| There are an estimated 6 million people in America | | | | We get psychologically dependent on drugs that get |
| addicted to prescription pain pills. Pills that can be as | | | | us high. We are addicted to intoxication, and unless |
| addictive as heroin but seem so much safer and feel | | | | we learn why we use - at the core - we cannot |
| so good. We get lulled into a false sense of security | | | | hope to stay clean for long. Although psychological |
| when we buy drugs at a pharmacy and not on a | | | | withdrawal creates no physical pains as physical |
| street corner, and for this very reason, we often | | | | detox does, it's actually the tougher addiction to |
| allow an addiction to dig deep before we wake up to | | | | beat, and one that too many people who "detox |
| the reality of the situation. | | | | only" never do. |
| Once you make the decision to get help, you take a | | | | Stay clean for good |
| giant step forward to a better life free from the | | | | It's the psychological addiction to pain pills that |
| weight of pill addiction, and although the road to | | | | mandates a lengthy period of drug rehab therapy, |
| recovery is not easy, it is a road that millions walk | | | | even after we break free from our physical |
| each year, and there is no reason why you can't get | | | | addictions. We need to learn why we use, we need |
| better! | | | | to understand what is going to provoke cravings to |
| Get help, even if you don't have insurance | | | | further use, and we need to learn real concrete |
| You may not have insurance, and you may not have | | | | strategies to relapse avoidance. |
| a lot of money to pay for a private stay at rehab; | | | | The physical addiction ends in a week or so, the |
| and you may be very tempted to just detox and | | | | psychological addiction takes months to subside, and |
| then go it alone. Don't! It's a mistake and it's a sure | | | | without learning how to get through these tough few |
| path to failure! There are rehabs that will take you in | | | | months, relapse is very likely. |
| for nothing! | | | | Even if you have no money to pay for this |
| Prescription pain pills are opiate based narcotics, and | | | | treatment, you need it. You won't stay sober |
| they create a physical and psychological dependency. | | | | without it, and after going through detox once; you |
| The physical addiction is the one that causes the | | | | don't want to go through it again. There are rehabs |
| pains of detox, but it's the psychological addiction | | | | that work with people without insurance, drug rehabs |
| that really endures, and if we don't beat both, we | | | | that only ask as much as you can pay. Find a free |
| are very unlikely going to stay sober for long. | | | | drug rehab and beat both the physical addiction, and |
| Detox | | | | the psychological addiction, and learn what you need |
| We beat the physical addiction through a medical | | | | to know to stay sober for life! |
| period of detox, through opiate substitution therapy | | | | |