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Why is methadone detox different at Novus?

If you’ve gotten hooked on methadone while trying to get off heroin, or if you’re on methadone and don’t want to be on it or don’t feel it you need it any longer...

Find out how Novus can safely
and more comfortably
get you through methadone detox

“Everything here was better than I ever imagined. If you want your life back, this staff will help you in any and every way possible.

“The people here showed me that there is light at the end of a dark, dark tunnel that I thought I would never make it out of. All the people—the whole staff, every single person who works here saved my life. Some people think about money and the cost to come here and decide not to. I would have paid $5000 a day to be here with people who helped get my life back. That’s how good this staff is. They really care and understand what you are going through. Thank you with all my heart.”

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About Methadone Treatment

For more than 40 years methadone treatment has been used as a substitute drug for heroin and other opiates. Many times heroin addicts are told that they will move to methadone for a time and then be able to stop. However, this is rarely the case and most people on higher doses of methadone are told that they will never be able to get off methadone.

Being addicted to a drug that requires you to go to a clinic daily or even once a week and creates harmful effects in your body is not an ideal solution. The ideal treatment program is for the heroin user to be free of their addiction—not just substitute one addiction for another.

For example, an ideal solution for a person addicted to heroin would be to withdraw from heroin using medications as needed. Then that medication would gradually be reduced to nothing. The person would then go through a drug rehab program to get down to the bottom of why they became addicted, and they would then go home drug free, and with a good chance of staying that way.

But the reality of the situation is that most heroin addicts don’t get anything even close to that ideal solution. Instead, they are just switched to methadone. Part of the problem is the methadone itself: it is even more addictive than heroin or other opiates. As with heroin, OxyContin or other opiates, the body can build up a tolerance to methadone, develop physical and psychological dependence, and when you try to get off it, the withdrawal symptoms can be just as severe as with heroin and other opiates.

However, you have a terrible dilemma. While, without a proper medical detox, for most withdrawal is not a real possibility, staying on methadone affects your body and your life in unacceptable ways. If you want to understand more read, "The Methadone Prison."

So, someone who wanted to stop their heroin addiction using methadone treatment becomes addicted to methadone instead and then needs methadone detox.

The problem is that most medical detox centers will not even attempt to detox people on high doses of methadone. However, at Novus we have successfully helped people withdraw from high doses of methadone safely and more comfortably than they ever dreamed possible.

One of the reasons methadone addicts fail to conquer their methadone addiction through drug detox and rehab is that they’re just not up to it physically. Being on methadone makes you less sensitive to your body’s needs and you can easily become malnourished and dehydrated. Trying to go through detox in that condition makes withdrawal symptoms even worse. A good methadone detox program ensures that you also build the body so it can endure the detox process. Methadone addiction is not easy to overcome, but, really, it’s not as difficult as you might think if the withdrawal process is made relatively comfortable through a good methadone detox program.

Doing a methadone detox is like training for a marathon. Runners train for months for marathons – they eat well, sleep well, work out, take vitamins and minerals and drink plenty of water. They make sure their body can meet the challenge. But after months or years of methadone addiction it’s hard to run to the corner, let alone run a marathon. A good methadone detox center ensures you get your body in shape.

A body that’s not in good condition will also have difficulty metabolizing the drugs you may be given to help with withdrawal symptoms. Making sure drugs do what they’re supposed to do is partially dependent on each organ and system in your body functioning well. If things don’t work right, it’s possible the withdrawal drugs won’t either – which means you’ll go through more pain and discomfort than you really have to. In fact, your body may be run down enough right now to be in pain, but you just can’t feel it because you’re on methadone.

In addition to the drugs you may need to get you through withdrawal more comfortably, a good drug detox center provides exercise facilities, intravenous vitamin and mineral drips, nutritious food and any other help you might need to get through withdrawal.

If you’ve tried to withdraw from methadone before and have been unsuccessful, your physical condition could be why. Methadone addiction can be difficult to overcome under the best of circumstances – make sure you choose a methadone detox program that gives you every advantage.

Are you fed up with being hooked on methadone?
You can get off it.

Call Novus Medical Detox today at
1.800.505.6604

Find out how Novus can safely and more comfortably
get you through methadone detox

Buprenorphine vs. Methadone

Buprenorphine is an opiate drug used to alleviate the symptoms of withdrawal from heroin or other opiates – including methadone. The short-tem use of buprenorphine has a lower risk for dependence and addiction than methadone. With a good methadone detox program using buprenorphine, you can be safely off methadone in a short time.

If you are tired of your methadone addiction and you would like a safe way to detox, get help now.

The Novus Methadone Detox

The Novus Medical Detox Center protocol includes not only the standard medical handlings but also hydration, vitamins, minerals and good food.
Novus Medical Detox Center offers 24-hour medical supervision, is continually monitoring the patient's progress and frequently will adjust the rate of the patient's taper in accordance with the comfort and safety of the patient.
Novus Medical Detox Center has a more than 90% completion rate of people who start their medical detox at our facility.
Generally, people can complete their detox in from six to eight days and even people on very high doses of opioids can generally be detoxed in less than fourteen days.
The person will not leave on additional drugs.
Novus Medical Detox Center is on 3.25 treed acres and our patients regularly take walks or sit outside.
Novus Medical Detox Center has designated smoking areas but our patients are free to smoke at any time. They have a television in their room with a DVD player. They have a phone in their room and there are no restrictions on cell phone usage. They have internet access and the food is rated as excellent by patients.
Each Novus Medical Detox Center patient has his/her own private room.

Recent Methadone Detox News:

Drug Addiction and Detox News

04/11/2009 05:00 AM

Finding A Workable Methadone Detox Has Never Been More Crucial

As the death toll from methadone soars across the country and methadone addiction continues to rise, the need for effective treatment has never been more important.

03/28/2009 05:00 AM

Methadone Detox That Works Means A Drug Free Life Is Possible

The result of so-called 'treatment' for opioid addiction with methadone is simply a life-long methadone addiction. Real treatment means helping opioid addicts become drug free, and such treatment now is available.

03/26/2009 05:00 AM

Ireland's Drug Czar Condemns Long-Term Methadone Maintenance

The Obama administration and all state legislatures could learn a lesson from Ireland, where John Curran, Ireland's minister for drugs strategy, has called for a review of methadone addiction, and how effective methadone programs actually are at getting people drug-free.

03/21/2009 05:00 AM

Hundreds Of Babies Suffer Methadone Detox Because Of 'Harm Reduction' Programs

There's nothing like listening to the screams of a newborn infant forced to withdraw from methadone to change your mind about so-called 'harm reduction' programs like free methadone for opioid-addicted women.