Opiate & Subutex Detox
Withdrawal during the Opiate Detox Process
Simply stopping your heroin dependency use immediately may be dangerous and certainly unpleasant. One of the goals of any inpatient medically based opiate detox centre will be to minimise all the risks associated with this withdrawal and to ensure that the client is as comfortable as possible during the detoxification experience. These are some of the symptoms associated with the detox process:
- Headaches
- Tremors
- Sweats
- Runny nose
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Seizures
- Convulsions
- Insomnia and restlessness
- Muscular spasms
- Bone and muscle pain
- Vomiting and nausea
- Irritability, agitation and panic
- Diarrhoea
- Goose bumps (hence the term Cold Turkey)
Buprenorphine (Subutex) has been shown to work better than all other medications for treating the withdrawal from opiates, and can shorten the length of detox. It may also be used for long-term maintenance as an alternative to methadone.
People withdrawing from methadone may be placed on long-term Buprenorphine maintenance. This involves slowly reducing the dosage of Buprenorphine over time. This helps reduce the intensity of withdrawal symptoms.
Some drug treatment programs have widely advertised treatments for opiate withdrawal called detox under anesthesia or rapid opiate detox. Such programs involve placing you under anesthesia and injecting large doses of opiate-blocking drugs, with hopes that this will speed up the return to normal opioid system function.
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