An Addict's Story: Cocaine and the Crash

An addict's story: Cocaine and the crash
Somehow I got to detox. Somehow, I began the slow climb back to civilization. It took six months before the fog lifted. Six months before I could think in a straight line. During that time, I was in treatment for 28 days and a halfway house for six … Read more on Auburn Citizen

How to do a Alcohol Detox with Dr Rodriquez and Delray Center – Alcohol Detox Now lets talk about alcohol detox. Alcohol detox is a major issue, mainly because alcohol detox is the most dangerous out of all the detoxes you can actually die from alcohol detox if it is not done correctly. Alcohol is a chemical is a very strong chemical that has a very strong effect on your body; your body gets use to it and becomes depended on it physiologically. Now what that mean is that if you have been drinking regularly and heavily and you stop drinking or reduce your drinking your body will go through a state of withdrawal of chemical withdrawal. This manifest in shaking, anxiety, insomnia uh sometimes depression sometimes it complicates into seizures and coma and death. The more extreme versions are called delirium tremens, which is a very dangerous condition that has at least a fifty percent mortality rate which is very bad. Now alcohol detox fortunately is not that difficult to do when handled by a medical professional or a physician or a hospital. It is something that can be managed actually comfortably and safely with the use of the appropriate medication. Alcohol detox in general should not be done without medication as that is very dangerous and poses substantial yet avoidable risks. Alcohol detox should be done only by a medical professional and usually in an outpatient or inpatient setting but under close monitoring, it can be done as an outpatient but under close monitoring. One thing about alcohol detox is the patient should really not …