OxyContin Addiction

Treating OxyContin Addiction

 

One savvy and medically recommended way to detox from OxyContin is to engage in Subutex or Suboxone treatment. Basically, you chemically “switch over” your physical dependence from OxyContin to another synthetic opioid called buprenorphine. You are not actually moving your “addiction” laterally. Buprenorphine therapy allows you to “step down” from the euphoria and cravings of OxyContin addiction. The detox period can last for days to weeks, and it can be performed in outpatient settings, provided that you and your physician develop a sound treatment and check in approach.

 

Of course, ending your physical cravings for OxyContin may not end your compulsion to use the drug again or to try another opioid, such as hydrocodone (often taken in prescribed Vicodin form). Indeed, manipulating the end of an addiction often requires deep psychological insights and investigations from many perspectives -- great anti-addiction clinics focus on individual patients and try many different tools to discover the sources of addictive cravings.

 

Dietary, spiritual, physical, and mental issues may be working in part or in concert to create anxieties or pain in your life, which you are in a sense treating with OxyContin abuse now. Until those sources of pain and anxiety are identified and otherwise defused, the chances for relapse remain high.

 

In other words, buprenorphine treatment during the early stages of OxyContin detox and treatment makes a lot of sense. But you should investigate long-term coaching and therapy to make sure that you stay clean and to get a handle on any physical or mental health problems at the root of your suffering.