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Step 1
Check into a rehabilitation center. Recovering from oxycontin addiction can be made easier if someone is there to help you through the process. Best of all, the staffers at rehabilitation centers are trained in all sorts of addiction, including oxycontin addiction, and will be there to hold your hand every step of the way.
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Step 2
Detox from oxycontin. Your doctor at the rehabilitation center will most likely prescribe buprenorphine, a drug to help ease you off the high you get from oxycontin. Buprenorphine will block the great amounts of oxycontin in your system, allowing you to detox more safely and without painful withdrawal symptoms.
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Step 3
Expect the side effects. Withdrawal side effects from oxycontin, even while you are using buprenorphine, include hot and cold sweats, joint and muscle pain, hart palpitations, vomiting, diarrhea, insomnia, watery eyes, depression and uncontrollable coughing. If you are suffering any of these side effects, what you are going through is completely normal.
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Step 4
Remove any oxycontin contacts from your telephone. Do not expect that you will be able to use willpower to avoid talking to your friends after you have gone through rehab. Completely cutting off all previous oxycontin connections is the only way you will be able to rid yourself of the addiction.
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Step 5
Rely on family and friends for support. Going through an addiction will clue you in as to who your true friends are. Stand by them and remember that they are there to help you at all costs. Remember that having true friends does not involve taking oxycontin in any way, and that your true friends would never let you take oxycontin again at any cost. If you are feeling as if you want to start using again, call one of these friends for a shoulder to lean on.
