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Drug Detox
Drug detox is a treatment directed at controlling and drug removal in case of intence drug intoxication. It provides purification of the body from the substances to which a person is addicted. The process of detox is performed for decreasing the physical effects caused by the harmful substances.
Programs of drug detox do not always treat some other aspects of drug dependence: certain social factors, psychological aspects, and complex mental issues that are associated with addiction.
There are characteristically 3 steps to drug detox: evaluation, stabilization, directing a patient into treatment.
Evaluation - at the very beginning of drug detoxification process a person is tested in order to detect which substances are currently circulating in the blood and their amount. The patient is estimated for possible dual diagnosis, co-occurring disorders, and some mental issues.
Stabilization - the patient is guided through the procedure of drug detox. This may be performed with/without the usage of medicines. Anyway, for the most part the absence of use of medications is more common. Part of stabilization is informing the patient what to expect while treatment and recovering.
Guiding of a patient - the third stage of the detox process is to prepare the patient for the process of recovering. As drug detox only deals with the physical addiction to drugs, it does not influence the psychological aspects of this dependence. This requires getting an agreement from the patient to finisl the process by entering a program of rehabilitation.
Quick detoxification. Sometimes, the often symptoms of drug removal last for several days. Such symptoms may become an obstacle for the treatment. Some practicians use rapid or even ultra rapid detox methods to condense the removal procedure into a shorter time period. It may take about 2 hours. Rapid detoxication patients are usually placed under anesthesia while they take drugs for treatment. In such a way they are able to avoid the acute pain associated with the treatment. Rapid detoxication is very expensive and its safety is not sufficiently deomonstrated yet. A 2005 clinical study on ultra rapid detoxication for heroin takers, comparing clonidine-assisted or buprenorphine-assisted opioid detox to anesthesia-assisted detox, revealed that anesthesia patients underwent removal when they awoke, had a similar study rate. Some anesthesia patients suffered from serious complications.
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