Overcome addiction How to Detox from drugs at home

by admin on November 22, 2009

Fundamentals for How to Detox at home from drugs

For most of you detox is going to be moderately unpleasant. This is can even hold true even if you are detoxing in a medical facility. The reason for this is that it takes a little while for the drugs they will use to help ease the pain of withdrawal to take effect. Once they do you should be fine. Keep that in mind when you are trying to tough it out at home watching the sports channel flat on your back on the couch. I would recommend that you try to sleep through most of it. This will work well for all opiate withdrawal. What I would do is make my self as tired and exhausted as I could by forcing myself to stay awake for a couple of days before I planed to stop using drugs. I have used this method to stop using heroin.

This should make you very tired and may possibly help you to be able to sleep through the worst of any opiate withdrawal. Now I think that for most of you the heroin withdrawal length will be the worst the first 48 to 72 hours after that you are going to start feeling a hell of a lot better.

Overcome addiction Detox at home from drugs

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What I would do if I actually intended to try to overcome addiction by detoxing from drugs at home is- first get rid of anything that will remind you of using drugs; for example, empty pill containers, syringes, bongs, and what not. They will serve no further purpose if you keep anything this is called a reservation. This means that you hope to one day use successfully again. Trust me it does not work I have tried every angle you can imagine to do this and failed miserably. If you decide to take the action you can learn how to overcome chemical dependency.

Next thing I would do is have someone you trust come stay with you while you are kicking drugs at home. They can be there for moral support plus if you decide to give up before you are half way through they may be able to talk some sense into you. I know that you will want to give up but don’t! I can guarentee you I did but I stuck it out it actually was not as bad as what I thought it would be do not let others scare you from getting yourself clean. Our using drugs has consequences and withdrawal is one of them.

Withdrawal symptoms

Runny noses

Diarrhea

Nausea and vomiting

Insomnia

Anxiety

Urges to use

Sweats

Chills or goose bumps

Muscle cramps

Feel like skin is crawling itchy

Craving chocolate

These are a few of the withdrawal symptoms

These are the things that you will want to prepare yourself for when you detox from drugs at home. Many people have no other option but to stop using drugs at home because they simply can not afford drug rehab. I have to suggest that you have a plan in place when you have finished your detox; like how do you intend to stay clean? Are you going to attend NA meetings or go to drug addiction therapy. These are things that one needs to think about if they want to stay clean.

Does anyone else have any good detox tips?  Why not hare with us and help each other out….

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