quincy
(Board Addict)
03/03/03 05:06 PM
Re: Rapid Detox

I think that Ultra rapid detox is wonderful, but of course insurance will not pay for it. I looked into it when I needed to detox from opiates, but I couldn't afford it. It was around 2000$, and if I had the money I would have done it in a minute. I had to do it the old fashioned way- at home with clonidine. It took at least a week to feel semi-normal. Of course my insurance was only too happy to pay for a trip to a detox facility-a 28 day treatment program in another state, and they would have also payed for a plane ticket. Dosen't make a lot of sense to me, but I think that the powers that be feel we should have to suffer withdrawl as "punishment" for taking opiates in the first place. The only thing I think that is wrong, is that the rapid detox will get your body off the drugs, but not your mind. I think you will still need a 12 step program or something to help the mental addiction. My detox was ordered by my jerk doctor who was freaked out that I was taking too much hydro for my fibro pain. ( I was on it for a whole three months when he decided I had to detox and that I was "addicted" to it.) My new doc found that totally ludicrous and said I shoud sue him for malpractice. I was never addicted at all-at least not mentally. I had to go through that hell for nothing. But ultimately if I had to detox again I would do the rapid.


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