How to Treat Oxycontin Addiction

Oxycontin is a powerful opioid analgesic, meaning that it is a synthetic painkiller that mimics the chemical action of opiate drugs. Thus, the risk of physical dependency is high and can occur quickly. Prolonged oxycontin use permanently changes brain chemistry, making it difficult for addicts to quit on their own.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Physician
• Addiction treatment specialist
• Behavioral therapist

1. Understand that oxycontin addiction is physical in nature and is akin to, though not quite as severe as, addiction to heroin. The first thing you'll need to do to overcome (or help a loved one overcome) oxycontin addiction is to contact a drug addiction treatment facility in your area and discuss the situation.

2. Detoxify from oxycontin under the close supervision of qualified medical professionals. They can intervene if necessary and can also administer treatments that will make the onset of acute withdrawal symptoms less severe. Just as with heroin addiction, methadone substitution is a common strategy to treat an individual's oxycontin addiction.

3. Begin an aggressive behavioral therapy treatment regimen once acute withdrawal symptoms have abated. Individual therapy aimed at helping the user understand how the drug works on their body and what underlying psychological factors led to their addiction have an impressive success rate.

4. Learn new life skills and coping skills from your behavioral therapist. These will help you (or your loved one) move forward in life with an advanced understanding of how to treat future cravings for the drug or other unhealthy temptations.

5. Continue to treat the addiction after release from the drug treatment center by enrolling the recovering addict in a 12-step program, or a suitable alternative. Physical addiction to powerful opioids is complex, and craving can occur well after the individual has received treatment. To overcome them, the recovering addict will need a support network in place they can turn to instead of the drug.

6. Enlist the aid of additional resources to facilitate the addict's transition back into drug-free life. Many helpful online sites such as the Oxycontin Addiction & Treatment Center (see Resources below) can link recovering addicts and their loved ones to community resources that can help.

Tips & Warnings

• Withdrawal from oxycontin can be severe. It is necessary for the addict to undergo medical detoxification under the supervision of qualified professionals to ensure its safety. Oxycontin addicts are strongly advised not to attempt quitting without medical assistance.

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[steven88]

on 12/31/2008 hydros*** didn't know i couldn't say that in a comment. I had even resorted to snorting the oxy's... insulating if it censors that. So.. if you get a script be very careful. when you get low.. start breaking them in halves. Then quarters. Then every other day.
Then when you are out it will still suck.
Not as badly as cold turkey from 80-160mg a day to 0

[steven88]

on 12/31/2008 I was on **** 10/325 taking 2 every 4 hours. I had 120 pills gone in 10 days. Did this 2 more times. I ended up taking 3 or 4 at a time because it no longer helped 3 compression fractures in my back.
I was put on oxycontin 40MGCR
took it for months ended up breaking the time release taking 2-3 at a time.
the doctor quit giving it to me COLD TURKEY!
so... i bought some **** from friends.
used it for the first week.. cut the opiate usage down slowly cold turkey is so hard... i did have to the last time.
Then 2 weeks after no oxycontin. I found kratom I was still in a lot of pain and still am.
I take kratom a lot and it helped the withdraws sooooo much It also kind of helped the pain and it works on opiate receptors and it's legal where i live.
that's how i got off of them.