Getting Sober: Learning to Live Without Drugs (Opiates) and Alcohol - Patients

You have been treated at the hospital because of o-pe-it detoxification (de-tock-si-fa-ka-shun). This treatment, often referred to as "detoxification", is intended to help drug addicts stop their medications.

Detoxification is a very unpleasant process. Detoxification is not easy, but it is one of the best treatment decisions you can do. It can even save your life

For your safety, as long as the Detox continues, you will stay in the room. You may have a specific visitor, but you can not leave. You can stand up and roam around your room. When you are here, the staff will protect your belongings. When you leave, you will get them

¿ 1/2 inspection by the medical team's doctor, nurse, dentist, social worker and other experts (Figure 1)

After detoxification, you will bring your medicine home. This medicine is called Suboxone® (buprenorphine / naloxone). Please adhere to instructions on how to take this medicine. ________________ You must also keep promises with doctor. _____________ If the doctor can not meet you, you can not refill the prescription. It is important to keep your medicine away from other children's eyes. Your Suboxone® is safe for you, but it is very dangerous for other children. If you think that someone else has already taken your medicine, call 1-800-222-1222 immediately for poison control.

If you want to injure or commit suicide, consult your parents or a safe adult or call the hospital immediately (614) 722-2000. You can also call the suicide prevention hotline.

¿ 1/2 will attend the daily 12-step meeting; anonymous alcohol addiction (AA), anonymous alcohol dependence (NA) or other approved support group. All sun rise is the key! 30th meeting, 30 times meeting. Discuss your support plan near social workers

¿ 1/2 intensive outpatient program: consultation, drug examination, group conference of several days a week, several days a week

Your dependence on medicine deprived you of your life. To make you awake and clean, you need to make a choice not to use it. This is a firm commitment to yourself, from the support of people near you, to the support of your doctor, therapist, and support team. You need to choose not to use everyday. One day is easier than the other day, but one day may be difficult, but that is possible. Ask for support, keep treatment plan, care for oneself

People recovered from drugs and alcoholism can enjoy a calm life. This is a wonderful way to keep people clean. A supportive environment provided in a calm life gives people the opportunity to live in a conscious environment 24-7. For many people this is quite different in terms of recovery and recurrence. Some people go to the house awake right after leaving rehabilitation. They are there for 3 to 9 months after discontinuing treatment. Other people will not recover, but they live a calm life a month or so after recovery. Some people live in a calm and living community for many years

Looking back, this is interesting. It is because choosing to wake up is not an option. How deep it is. Not even impossible. I rarely live without medicine and alcohol. This happens with movies and people who are not really addicted ... a person who uses it on weekends. Someone who does not like me

The solemnity of life in America is certainly not new, but the residents' face is new. The article by Newport Daily News pointed out that the necessity of a calm life no longer depends on alcoholism. "The alcohol problem is not solved, although there is still it, only opioid dependence has become a focus of attention," said the secretary general of a calm living center in the article. Still, opioid addicts still account for the majority of customers showing long-term recovery. When I checked myself into the treatment center in 2013, everyone around me asked me something "choice medicine". I found myself saying "Oh, just alcohol." I am surrounded by detoxification patients of heroin, Vicodin, Percot set. Alcohol is simply background noise in the story. Even when I am recovering, I feel that I am not amusing enough.