Drug Rehab for Delaware
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It might only take one image to tell the basic story of addiction in Delaware. The following chart shows the percentage of people admitted to addiction treatment for each of the main drugs of abuse: Alcohol, heroin, other opiates (prescription opioids), methamphetamine/amphetamines, marijuana and cocaine.
Look at the yellow line—prescription opioids. It’s very low in 2004 and then begins a steady climb. The climb shows that more doctors are prescribing more freely and more people are becoming dependent on their pills and figuring out how to get beg, borrow or steal the number of pills they need. Maybe they go to more than one doctor. Maybe they buy pills from drug dealers or steal them from family members.
After 2011, the number of people admitted for addiction to painkillers began to drop steeply. Factors in this decline include the reformulation of OxyContin into a pill that was very hard to abuse, and legislation implemented in Delaware to reduce doctor-shopping (visiting multiple doctors to get the same prescription). But as prescription drug admissions fell, heroin admissions jumped up year after year. After all, heroin is much cheaper and does not require a doctor visit.
Cocaine use declined steadily, as it did in many parts of the U.S. Even alcohol and marijuana admissions slumped, dwarfed by the rocketing number of people addicted to heroin.
Delaware Needs a Solution for Addiction
Some people in Delaware think the best way to deal with addiction is to put those in recovery on medications that replace the opiates in their systems. The two choices for those medications are methadone and the newer drug buprenorphine. When so many people go through rehab only to relapse, it’s understandable that those trying to help people recover get frustrated and settle on “medication-assisted treatment” as the best solution they can find.
Yes, recovering from addiction to opiates is a difficult job. But it can be done and is accomplished with the drug-free rehab program at Narconon centers in all parts of the U.S. and even the world.
Instead of relying on drugs, the Narconon program relies on nutritional supplements, deep detoxification of residual drugs still lodged in the body and gradually teaching a person how to create a new, sober life. It takes longer than the 30 days of many programs but the Narconon program shows a person how to rely on his own wits and life skills, not a drug.
A sauna-based detoxification step called the New Life Detoxification gives each person a boost of clarity early in their rehab program at Narconon. A combination of moderate exercise, nutritional supplements and time in the sauna draws drug residues out of the body. As the person spends time in the sauna, these residues are washed away with the sweat. As they leave, each person can think more clearly. Families may comment that the person “sounds like himself again.” This is an excellent preparation for the life skills training that follows.
Rebuilding Life Skills
Once a person has achieved a brighter outlook from the New Life Detoxification, he will next learn how to stay sober. After years of addiction, a person’s life skills deteriorate. Instead of an individual making sound decisions in life, the compulsion to get more drugs drove his every choice. Now it’s time to takes back control.
First, he regains control of his actions, thoughts and decisions through a series of precise exercises that brightens perceptions and restores self-determinism. Step by step, each person takes back management of his own life.
After that, he learns how to manage his friends and associates to support his success and sobriety. This step goes a long way toward teaching him to make the right choices. Then he studies about integrity—how it is lost and, best of all, how it can be regained. After learning the basic principles, each person puts them to work to recover that lost integrity. This process offers great relief to every client.
Finally, a study of problem-solving and overcoming difficulties and setbacks is done. This material can also be put to use restoring broken relationships.
The whole idea is strengthening a person’s ability to hold onto that new sober life they fought so hard to recover. For more than 50 years, this has been a winning formula for helping individuals achieve lasting sobriety at Narconon centers around the world.
Delaware Doctors Top the List of Handing out High Out the Highest Dosage Prescriptions
While patients can no longer go shopping for multiple doctors, prescribers in the state are still busy handing out prescriptions for high dosage painkillers like hydrocodone, oxycodone or hydromorphone. When high dosage pills are prescribed, overdoses are more likely and addiction can grip an individual quickly.
The effects of these years of reckless prescribing and the ready availability of heroin show up in many aspects of Delaware family life. Like the increasing number of babies born addicted to the drugs their mothers were using. In 2015, there were 353 such babies reported to Delaware Family Services and in mid-2016, it was estimated there would be more than 600 by the end of the year. These babies need weeks of medical care and constant comforting and cradling as they are weaned slowly off opiates.
Like nearly every other state with abundant supplies of heroin, Delaware residents encounter fentanyl in their supplies—not just heroin supplies, either—fentanyl has been found in cocaine and methamphetamine too. With fentanyl or the even stronger carfentanil, the small state has begun to experience days with multiple overdose deaths.
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