Healing the Body & Mind from Addiction

Our Promise To You

  1. Provide Timely, Accurate and Thoughtful Content Focused on Addiction and Withdrawal
    Our clinic has one overall purpose…one ultimate reason for being: To Help People Take Their First Step To Fight Addiction and Dependency. Therefore, we will always strive to be a leader in information and content on withdrawal and addiction. We realize that withdrawal and detox is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to fighting addiction but it’s a BIG piece.
  2. Be Trustworthy
    We know that trust must be earned. We work hard every day to make sure that we provide trustworthy and accurate information about addiction and also about our products. We are extremely diligent about the claims that we make so that our patients know exactly what they are getting when they come to our center.
  3. Be Brutally Honest
    It’s extremely important for us to manage the expectations of our patients because major life decisions are on the line. If our treatment may not be right for you, we will tell you so. If you need more help than we can provide, we will tell you so. Our job is to provide you with the facts in an objective straightforward manner.
  4. Be Kind and Not Judge
    Our job is to inform and help if possible; not judge. Everybody wrestles with their own demons as do we.
  5. Be Responsive
    Most of our patients are in distress, pain or both. They deserve timely responses. Our goal is to respond to any patients questions or concerns in a timely manner.

Stop before your body stops!!!

As your body has become tolerant of the drug, a good “high” is getting harder and harder to come by. And you know what? Even if you take more pills, you’ll never get it back. What you will get is depressed…those shorter and shorter moments of euphoria aren’t worth the longer and longer bouts of depression.

Taking controlled substances has an insidious, negative impact on your train of thought and your ability to perform. When you take drugs, you may even feel a rush of energy or even feel like you are really focused. In short, while you may think you’re doing just fine at work, you’re probably not doing half as well as when you were sober.

Now think about how many memories you have lost that really mattered! Maybe it was a great time spent with a loved one or a great conversation you had with your kid…don’t let these drugs steal all of your great memories!

Since pills are your priority #1 right now, everything else suffers. Do you spend as much time with your pals as you used to? Talk on the phone much? Face it; if they aren’t involved in your drug use in some way, chances are that they are slowly fading off into the distance. In other words, you’re quickly becoming really lame.

Do you have any passions? Or rather DID you have any passions? Was it gardening, reading books, hanging out with friends, golf or just a general hobby that helped you escape? How much time do you spend on your passions now? If you’re hooked on drugs, THEY are your passion.

After all, if you’re taking large quantities of liver-shriveling pain killers and generally not taking care of your most precious asset, your body is not going to reward you with its best performance. I know this may come across as holier than thou and agonizingly obvious but it has to be stated that these medications when taken incorrectly are just plain bad for you.

Drugs Bring Out Your Dr. Jeckyl and your Mr. Hyde Opiates affect the neurotransmitters that control (along with many other things) the mood centers (Dopamine and Serotonin levels) in your brain. Along with that euphoric feeling when you take pills comes a healthy dose of rage, depression, anxiety and other moods that make you a generally unpleasant person to be around. If you sense these moods and feel like you can’t control them, you’re not imagining it…the drugs are having their way with your mojo and you’re just along for the ride. I can tell you with relative certainty that your friends and family never know what “You” is going to show up when you’re on these drugs.

If you’re addicted to drugs, they not only hamper your physical ability to “perform” they also probably lessen your libido. One of the only not-so- unpleasant side effects of opiate withdrawal that you may notice -if you decide to quit- is that you become extremely amorous. Extremely.

This is true for alcohol or any intoxicant. If you’re inebriated and uninhibited on pain pills or booze or both, you’re inevitably going to do some really stupid things. There’s a whole myriad of stupid things to do when you’re on pain killers: “heroic” physical feats of strength or courage (i.e. things that could get you killed), saying really stupid things to the wrong people, stupid decisions with money, stupid decisions with the opposite sex and perhaps most of all, the really, really stupid idea that taking five more of those Vicodin will make you five times higher!

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