Treating Opioid Addiction
Opioid treatment can be used to treat Heroin, Morphine, Pethidine, Codeine, Fentanyl and Fentanyl analogues abuse.
Opioid addiction could be treated with:
- Methadone maintenance therapy
- Suboxone maintenance therapy
- Rapid Suboxone Detox
- Detox Protocol
- Naltrexone treatment
- Naltrexone implant
A sample of opioid abuse is heroin addiction.
Heroin Addiction
Heroin is an illegal, highly additive drug processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extract. It was first synthesized in 1974 by Bayer A.G as a cure for cough.
Regular use of heroin increases the body tolerance and dependence on it where continuously increasing dose is required to have the same effect.
This will lead to psychological habituation and physical dependence. Patient will need to use heroin at increasing doses just to maintain normal function. Withdrawal symptoms includes severe body aches, diarrhea, insomnia, panic attacks, muscle spams, smell, hearing and cravings.
