How does rapid opiate detox work?
Patients undergoing rapid opiate detox are placed under anesthesia for anywhere from 4 to 48 hours, and during this time they are pumped full of medications that accelerate the detoxification process, primarily the drug nalexone. Where patients conscious for this pharmaceutically accelerated period of detox the agony would be unbearable, but since they remain sedated they awake at the end of the procedure opiate free, spared the worst of the pains of detox, and with no memory of any of it. Rapid opiate detox practitioners report astonishing success rates, and although they will often recommend pharmaceutical aftercare with naltrexone (a drug used to prevent opiate and alcohol relapse) no other therapy or treatments are included in the price. Addicts are reported cured of their addictions in a weekend, and can resume life on Monday free from an addiction to drugs. Because the fear of the intense pains of detox keeps many addicts using and abusing for years, advocates of the program argu
