Methadone Detox: High or Dry? Staying Sober for New Year’s Eve – Record-Searchlight

High or dry? Staying sober for New Year’s Eve – Record-Searchlight

High or dry? Staying sober for New Year's Eve
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Sometimes, she relies on: "Oh, thank you, but I'm still on methadone." While not Gina Bestenlehner, who is 12 years sober and program director for the Pur Detox center in Dana Point, Calif., suggests bringing along a sobriety buddy to help stay

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Rapid Detox.Fully conscious.Day 4. – After 4 weeks on Morphine and Dilaudid, it was having no effect. My body had developed a tolerance so it was time to give these horrible pain killers the flick once again! This time I was still in hospital. Thank goodness as this detox would have literally killed me at home. I knew what I was about to face. Withdrawls. BUT no where near where I thought it was going to be. I have NEVER had withdrawls this severe. It was agonisingly painful. I did a rapid detox, the detox that they give a general anaesthetic (GA) for, along with medications to reverse the effects of withdrawls and any medications left in the system. I however did it WITHOUT the GA. All I used was a Ketamine infusion, Clonadine and an occasional Valium. They use a GA with rapid detox because of the distressing, literally paralizing, distressing, painful effects of withdrawing so quickly. Dilaudid is around 8.3 times stronger than Morphine. It is a very strong synthetic opiate and worse to withdraw from than Heroin. Taking up to 21 days for withdrawls to cease. It is now day 14 and I am still suffering painful withdrawl symptoms. Ketamine is a fast acting GA. It has been found to be a useful in controlling pain in Palliative care patient’s in a low dose infusion or injected. BUT also it has been found to decrease opiate tolerance by 30% to 50% in just 3 hours! It also means that it causes rapid detox. Ketamine itself is a nasty drug. It causes halucinations in every form and a feeling of being in different

 

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