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Rethinking Methadone: The Risks and a Revolutionary Detox Alternative

April 27, 2024 by Editor

Methadone, often used as a pain reliever and a substitute in heroin addiction treatment, presents a significant challenge. As Raffi Balian, coordinator of a Toronto drug users’ program notes, doctors prescribe medications assuming they will be used as directed. However, a study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto reveals that 63% of opioid-dependent patients obtained their drugs through legal prescriptions.

While methadone is intended to ease the process of weaning off heroin, it is ironically more addictive and its withdrawal symptoms more severe than those of heroin itself. This has contributed to a surge in the non-medical use of prescription opioids in Canada over the past 15 years, a trend more pronounced in North America than elsewhere.

Methadone’s synthetic nature means it lingers longer in the body, leading to dependency with repeated use. Its withdrawal symptoms are daunting: from severe pain and gastrointestinal upset to respiratory issues and potentially life-threatening cardiac changes as highlighted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Given these challenges, the Rapid Drug Detox (RDD) Center offers a groundbreaking alternative with its RDD Method™. This method involves a quick, medically supervised detoxification that cleanses opiate receptors through a one-hour infusion of intravenous medications. The procedure is performed under light anesthesia to ensure comfort and minimize withdrawal symptoms.

Post-detox, patients immediately start on Naltrexone Therapy to prevent opiates from re-attaching to the receptors. Options include a sustained-release injectable or a subdermal pellet, ensuring long-term prevention of relapse, especially critical for those detoxing from drugs with a long half-life like Methadone and Suboxone®/Subutex.

Patients leave with a year-long Naltrexone prescription, supporting long-term recovery. This approach aligns with recommendations from experts like Donald MacPherson of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, who advocates for broader use of Naltrexone to prevent overdose deaths.

The RDD Center’s unique method draws patients globally due to its effectiveness and affordability. With 24/7 access to professional medical staff, the RDD Center is dedicated to providing extensive support throughout the recovery journey.

Is RDD right for you? A simple call can lead to a life free from addiction. Contact the Rapid Drug Detox Center at 1-866-399-2967 for a consultation and take the first step towards reclaiming your life.

Canadian Family Speak on How the RDD Method Cured Her Opiate Addiction

July 3, 2015 by Editor

Nova Scotia Mom says Rapid Drug Detox Center saved her daughter’s life. According to Mom, Methadone was the only treatment available to her daughter in Canada. Rapid Drug Detox Center believes that Methadone is not the answer and it can be risky to switch from one opiate drug to another. Rapid Drug Center has a better way to detox from opiate addiction. Call us to learn more how we can free you from your opiate addiction at 1-866-399-2967.

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Opiate Use & Treatment in Vancouver

June 29, 2015 by Editor

Opiate Use and Treatment Vancouver, British Columbia

The non-medical use of prescription opioids has increased dramatically in and around Vancouver, British Columbia says the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Meanwhile, Canada.com reports a “significant increase” in adolescent substance abuse In British Columbia, and leading physicians mark a 5-fold increase in oxycodone related deaths in the Province. Addiction workers in Vancouver said in a CBC report that they see more exotic drugs than ever on the street. Clearly, traditional methods of dealing with prescription drug abuse are not working well.

Traditional drug detoxification (“detox”) puts your willpower to the test. Opiate drugs work by attaching to the opiate receptors in your brain. That’s what creates the feeling of euphoria and brings pain relief. Unfortunately, as the drug wears off, you begin to experience withdrawal – you crave it. The longer you’ve been using the drug, the tougher it fights to hold onto you. As a recent video from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH) confirms, opiates can become addicting.

Yet you know that you want your life back … you want to quit.

Help is waiting. The Rapid Detox (RDD) Center in Troy, Michigan, invented the RDD Method™ for detoxification from opiates and other addicting drugs. So it is not surprising that patients come to the Center from all over the world to get safe, medically-supervised Rapid Drug Detoxification.

Why do men and women suffering from drug addiction travel to a small town in the United States to put an end to their drug addiction? Because the Center has developed a “detox” method that works. It’s fast, it’s effective, and it’s almost pain free. Instead of weeks, even months, of painful withdrawal, rapid anesthesia detoxification (The RDD Method™) leaves you clean in 3 days and eliminates most of the withdrawal symptoms.

The RDD Method™ works by “cleansing” the addicting drug from your brain’s opiate receptors. It even eases you successfully through the “rebound anxiety” that often accompanies detoxification.

The actual procedure takes about an hour. After a brief, painless series of tests, you are admitted to the operating room (O.R.). There, an experienced, board certified anesthesiologist gives you a medication to relax, and then administers a light, general anesthesia , while you rest comfortably. Meanwhile, a team of experienced doctors “scrubs” the opiate receptors in your body, using an infusion of intravenous medications.

With the opiate drugs removed from your receptors, the worst of the withdrawal is over while you are under anesthesia.

Because the treatment is quick, it’s inexpensive. To learn more about RDD Method™, call the RDD Wellness Center and speak with an experienced, professional nurse or intake coordinator. The consultation is free … and it could free you or your loved one from addiction. Call them at 1-866-399-2967.

OxyContin Help in Canada

June 10, 2015 by Editor

Rapid-Drug-Detox-Center-Oxycontin-Help-in-Canada Even using the most conservative estimate, 50-55,000 Canadians are opioid dependent, says the Canadian Executive Council on Addictions. Similarly, the Quebec surveillance network documents a shift among opioid-dependent individuals from heroin to prescription drugs. This will not, writes Dr. Roger Ladouceur in Canadian Family Physician, come as a surprise to anyone familiar with OxyContin.

Perhaps your doctors prescribed OxyContin when other painkillers stopped working. Although six million people a year take OxyContin, USA Today calls it a “prescription for trouble.” The US National Institute of Health recently reported that 23.9 million American adults —over 9 percent of the population—overused an addicting medication in the past month.

OxyContin is a controlled-release version of oxycodone hydrochloride. Like any narcotic intended for extended pain relief, it can quickly become addicting. Those addicted to OxyContin often crush the tablets, and then inject or snort them to get the drug into the bloodstream all at once. That increases your risk of addiction and can be fatal, even the first time you try it.

Opiate overdoses are rising sharply across Canada, thanks to an increase in prescription drug use, CBC news reports, quoting the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. “It’s a national issue,” says Donald MacPherson, executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Over-prescribing opiates means “there’s a lot of prescription opioids out there in the market,” he says.

Doctors need to take more responsibility for educating people about the dangers, MacPherson writes. The more you use OxyContin, the more you need, which leads to addiction. Symptoms of addiction can include flabby muscles, shallow breathing leading to respiratory arrest, or a drop in your heart rate and blood pressure, which can bring on a coma and even death. Science Daily reports that “legal drugs such as OxyContin now kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined.” Dr Ladoceur predicts that nearly 10% of those who take it for pain become addicted.

Furthermore, there are risks with trying to detox [from non-prescription drugs] by substituting prescription drugs like Oxycontin, admits Dr. Michael Trew, Alberta’s chief addiction and mental health officer. Opiate users lose their tolerance to their drug quickly when they stop using it, he says; so if they relapse and go back to taking the same dosage, it could be enough to kill them.

Unfortunately, OxyContin withdrawal can painful. Withdrawal symptoms are like heroin withdrawal, and may include sweating, heart spasms, increased blood pressure, nausea, dehydration, abdominal cramps, trembling, weakness, muscle ache, diarrhea, vomiting, restlessness, leg spasms, insomnia, and mood disturbances such as irritability and thoughts of suicide.

So “going it alone” rarely works. Yet getting treatment in Canada isn’t easy. One mother in Calgary calls finding funded treatment for her own son “a constant struggle”; alternatively, three months at a local private facility would cost the family $33,000 (CAN).

“Physicians … in both cities and in rural areas, struggle with getting … treatment for their patients,” reports Dr. Susan Ulan, assistant registrar with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta. “We know that many patients … [especially in rural areas look elsewhere] to access treatment.”

There is a better answer waiting for you, just across the border.

Short wait, proven results, one-fourth the cost…

The Rapid Drug Detox (RDD) Center, in Troy, Michigan, has a better way. The RDD Center’s Anesthesia OxyContin detox is a proven procedure that effectively reduces the pain and discomfort associated with conventional OxyContin detox.

Rapid anesthesia detoxification (The RDD Method™) is a medical procedure that “cleans” the OxyContin drug from your brain’s opiate receptors. It even eases you successfully through the “rebound anxiety” that often accompanies detoxification.

Instead of a difficult, several-week withdrawal period, RDD (rapid drug detox) treatment takes 3 days and eliminates most of withdrawal symptoms.

The actual procedure takes about an hour. After a brief, painless series of tests, you’ll be admitted to the operating room (O.R.). There, an experienced, board certified anesthesiologist gives you a medication to relax, and then administers a light, general anesthesia. While you rest comfortably, a team of experienced doctors “scrubs” the opiate receptors in your body, using an infusion of intravenous medications.

Once the OxyContin is removed from your receptors, the worst of the withdrawal is over. And you’ve slept through it all.

After the procedure, you recover under direct medical supervision. The RDD team of experienced medical professionals monitors your vital signs and your overall physical and mental reactions. In the days that follow the procedure, you may sleep more than usual.

Administered by professionals as part of a long-term drug-addiction recovery strategy, the RDD Method™ has proven to be significantly more effective than older methods.

Will it work for you? The answer starts with a phone call. When you call, you get to talk to a professional nurse or an experienced intake coordinator. The call is toll-free. Click here now to contact the Rapid Drug Detox Center or call Rapid Drug Detox at 1-866-399-2967 now and take the first step toward a lifetime of freedom from addiction.

The RDD Center makes sure that nurses are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and that the Center’s knowledgeable, licensed medical professionals are always available to answer all of your questions.

Suboxone® Treatment Canada

June 9, 2015 by Editor

Rapid-Drug-Detox-Center-Suboxone-Treatment-Canada Jan Dunbar [not her real name] was a psychiatric nurse in Vancouver. “I had a happy life, great family, supportive friends,” and no medical issues, she said. Then came the car accident and, with it, “chronic pain syndrome and burning mouth syndrome, due to nerve damage in my neck.” Her physician prescribed an opioid pain reliever. Thus, innocently, began what she calls her descent into hell.

Around 800,000 Canadians use prescription opioid drugs, such as oxycodone, codeine, morphine and Suboxone^®, for pain says the Vancouver Sun. More than 240,000 Canadians admit to abusing those drugs. In fact, Canada has displaced the United States as the world’s leading consumer of opioids, according to the International Narcotics Control Board. Correspondingly, Dr. Irfan A. Dhalla, of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, notes a 5-fold increase in opioid-related deaths in Canada.

Physicians use Suboxone^® as a pain reliever. However, some try to treat one form of addiction (such as heroin) by substituting dependence on Suboxone^®. Unfortunately, most physicians don’t realize that Suboxone^® is more highly addictive than traditional opiates. This means that trying to break Suboxone addiction is even more difficult – and the withdrawal symptoms are more severe – than breaking your original dependence.

Pharmaceutical literature reports many side effects from using Suboxone®. Those side effects include drowsiness, dizziness, weakness, constipation, headache, nausea, or vomiting, slow and shallow breathing, mental and mood changes, depression, stomach/abdominal pain, dark urine, yellowing eyes and skin, vision changes, and trouble breathing.

Just across the border, in Michigan, the medical staff at the Rapid Drug Detox (RDD) Center records patients reporting additional symptoms, including profuse sweating, decreased libido, lack of motivation, sadness, low energy levels, decreased hormonal levels such as decreased testosterone in men and estrogen in women, decreased muscle mass, tone and strength, lack of zest for life, apathy, feeling hopeless, and urinary retention.

Dr. Michael Trew, Alberta’s chief addiction and mental health officer, warns that such replacement therapies have risks. Opiate users lose their tolerance to the drug quickly after they stop using it; if they should relapse and go back to taking the same dosage, it could be enough to kill them.

The truth is that trading one opiate drug for another is never an acceptable treatment.

Yet, as nurse Jan Dunbar learned, quitting isn’t easy—even working in a hospital, she couldn’t do it alone. Setbacks happen frequently and most of those who try to quit alone fail.

The reason is no mystery: Suboxone® / Subutex / Buprenorphine withdrawal can be painful. Withdrawal symptoms typically start within 36 hours of your last use and can last over five weeks. Those symptoms include severe anxiety, sweating, malaise, depression, cramp-like pains in the muscles, leg kicking as your body tries to “kick the habit”), severe and long lasting sleep difficulties (insomnia), diarrhea, goose bump skin (“cold turkey”), cramps, abdominal pain, dehydration, convulsions, fever and thoughts of suicide.

Like most of those addicted, Jan needed professional medical help. Unfortunately, Canadians waiting for funded addiction treatment usually wait a long time. One client reported waiting for over a year.

Fortunately, many Canadians have found that help is available, without a long wait and at a reasonable cost, just across the border.

Three days to “drug free”

Why would men and women suffering from drug addiction come from all over the world to a small town in the U.S. to put an end to their drug addiction? Perhaps because the Rapid Drug Detox (RDD) Center there has developed a “detox” method that works. It’s fast, it’s effective, and it’s almost pain free. So it’s not surprising that nearly 98% of their patients cross at least one border to get there.

At the RDD Center, the medical procedure takes place under anesthesia, and that eliminates most of the withdrawal symptoms. After a brief, painless series of tests, you’ll be admitted to the operating room (O.R.). There, an experienced, board certified anesthesiologist gives you a medication to relax, and then administers a light, general anesthesia, while you rest comfortably for approximately 60 minutes. While you rest, a team of experienced doctors “scrubs” the opiate receptors in your body, using an infusion of intravenous medications.

With the Suboxone® removed from your receptors, the worst of the withdrawal is over. And you’ve slept through it all.

After the procedure, you recover under direct medical supervision. The RDD Center team of experienced medical professionals monitors your vital signs and your overall physical and mental reactions. In the days that follow the procedure, you may sleep more than usual.

Administered by experienced, medical professionals as part of a long-term drug-addiction recovery strategy, the RDD Method™ has proven to be significantly more effective than older methods.

Because patients who undergo RDD treatment leave the Center clean and free of any opiates, they are free of their addiction and their former cravings. If you’re considering detox treatment, it’s important to question any treatment centers you’re considering. Learn the truth about their programs. Trading one opiate drug for another should never be an acceptable treatment. The RDD Center’s physicians consider it misleading and the patients we see have rarely found it successful.

Will the RDD Method™ work for you? The answer starts with a phone call. When you call, you get to talk to a professional nurse or an experienced intake coordinator. The call is toll-free. Click here now to contact the Rapid Drug Detox Center or call Rapid Drug Detox at 1-866-399-2967 now and take the first step toward a lifetime of freedom from addiction.

Methadone Detox in North America

June 9, 2015 by Editor

Methadone-Detox-in-North-America Physicians use methadone as a pain reliever. However, patients don’t always use drugs the way doctor prescribes them. “Doctors, when they prescribe drugs, always assume patients are going to use it as prescribed,” says Raffi Balian, co-ordinator of a Toronto drug users’ program. For example, a study of opioid-dependent patients by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto shows that 63% got their drugs from legal prescriptions.… [Continue Reading]

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