While traditional drug rehab treatments often involve painful and dangerous detoxification periods, with a statistical failure rate of between 85% and 90%, there is another method that may be considered.
Rapid detoxification is an option for addicts suffering from addictions to heroin, prescription painkillers, or other opioids, and it promoted to be a far less painful method of rehabilitation.
It has always been the case that people who wish to come off drugs would love to do so overnight with the least amount of discomfort as possible. The Waismann Method, for example, promises to offer a quick fix to drug addiction, but it’s definitely not a suitable treatment for everyone.
The method involves the addict being placed under a general aesthetic, and having the opiate receptors of his brain blocked from any opiates. Additional medications are administered, which accelerate the physical reactions to the rapid withdrawal, all done while the patient remains unconscious.
The effect is that after 4 to 6 hours (or 12 to 48 depending on the drugs used); the patient will awaken with no drug dependency, and with no conscious awareness of having experienced a withdrawal.
However, the rapid detox method, which has been hailed as the biggest advancement in drug rehab treatment, like all recovery methods, also has a downside. The most obvious of these is the danger of being put under general anesthetic for such a long period of time, basically creating a coma-like state.
Unfortunately, most research into this method has been carried out under the sponsorship of the institutions involved with promoting its benefits. Due to this, rapid detox has taken off in a huge way, and promises a magical solution to drug addiction that could never be dreamt of before. Its seductive qualities and promises of an instant cure can be misleading if not understood correctly.
