With the increasing number of addicts hooked on prescription drugs that are being admitted for treatment at Narconon rehab centers across America, it has become obvious that the road to OxyContin addiction is short, and sorrowful.
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How Does this Happen?
People can become addicted to Oxy as a result of having sought and been offered prescription pain relief. According to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, produced by US Government health departments, most people who become addicted to painkillers do so as a result of medications that are being issued to them by their doctor. It is a myth that oxy addiction only occurs with illicit or long term use – many people given OxyContin on prescription start to experience addictive symptoms within a few days of starting the prescription drug use. However, few prescribing doctors would appear to understand the nature of opioid addiction, or its symptoms and so fail to prevent addiction.
Some people who become addicted to OxyContin have been earlier prescribed addictive medications for pain relief. Until recently, the addictive properties of sedative and anti-inflammatory drugs, have been largely ignored and overlooked. Often symptoms of addiction and withdrawal have been wrongly attributed to the condition being treated, rather than being seen as a side effect of the drugs.
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Increasing the Doses
When people being treated for pain complain of increasing pain and distress, the response of many doctors has been to diagnose “chronic pain” – and to simply increase the frequency and the dose of the pain relieving medication. When drugs such as Tylenol, or Percocet fail to cover increasing pain and discomfort, the tendency has been to change the patient’s medication to prescription Oxy. Many people have therefore started taking this drug when they already have an unrecognized sedative or opioid dependency created by their use of an earlier medication. Swift, short and sorrowful is the road to addiction when people have come to OxyContin by this route.
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Emotional and Physical Pain
The problem of oxy addiction is both physical and mental – emotional pain is felt and experienced as physical pain in the body. Anything that blocks or impedes pain sensation in the body could also provide symptomatic relief from feeling emotional pain. Therefore, people who take a prescription drug and find that it removes their stress and tension will naturally be inclined to want to use the drug for that purpose – and very likely don’t want to admit it to other people. The injured individual easily fall prey to the OxyContin “high”, and unwittingly, willingly take the short, sorrowful road to addiction.
People with oxy addiction feel much the same as people with a heroin habit – lying, stealing, betrayal and deception all happen in due course when a person gets seriously into an addictive opioid habit. When drug addiction takes a hold it is damaging, destructive and precludes using more healthy options. Drug use destroys people and damages human relationships.
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Feeling of Guilt
Addiction often brings with it feelings of guilt and shame that more properly should be ascribed to those who promote and encourage drug use in the community. Guiltiness does not allow people real freedom of choice between drug use and pain relief methods that are natural and pure – thus the down spiral of drug addiction.
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Natural Solutions
Talking about natural methods for pain relief to big pharma and some medical profession is somewhat akin to sprinkling a pack of demons and imps with a bottle of holy water. Indeed it is a worry that many who are entrusted by the community with providing the best in health care are so addicted to the use of drugs that it infects the wider community.
People traveling the sorrowful road of OxyContin addiction can branch off toward complete recovery. There is hope to achieve a drug-free and joyful life by getting proper help from a comprehensive and natural drug rehab program such as Narconon.
The Narconon detoxification and rehabilitation program has been helping people to truly and naturally recover from addiction for over 45 years. For more information about the Narconon solution, please call 1-877-782-7409.
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