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Medical informed consent, what is it and why is lack of informed consent creating pharmaceutical dependency.

Informed consent is the legally binding rule and law that a person prescribed any treatment, especially pharmaceutical drug prescription, must be given full disclosure of the risks, benefits of following or not following a specific course of treatment. Options to a treatment program must also be given with risks and benefits of those treatments.

Many doctors who are unfamiliar with the risks and benefits of certain treatments must say so and direct the patient to where or whom they can access that treatment information. Other options for treatment or sources of alternative treatments must also be given. This is called Patient Autonomy. Rules and laws protecting patient autonomy are based on the patients rights to determining their own course of recovery without influence or coercion from an authoritative doctor or health care worker.

Patient autonomy: The right of patients to make decisions about their medical care without their health care provider trying to influence the decision. Patient autonomy does allow for health care providers to educate the patient but does not allow the health care provider to make the decision for the patient.

Benzodiazepine (anxiety drugs), opiate (pain drugs), anti-depressant (depression drugs), sedatives (sedation drugs) are very addictive pharmaceutical drugs. Wonderful people are being tricked and often deceived by MDs they trust into believing pharmaceuticals are not potentially addictive.

MDs and psychs who give full informed consent to their patients prior to prescribing benzodiazepines, opiates, anti-depressants, barbiturates, would prevent widespread pharmaceutical dependency and decrease growing pharmaceutical prevalence.

Pharmaceutical Dependency

Pharmaceutical opiate drugs like oxycontin, percocyt and benzodiazepines such as Lorazepam and Clonazepam are very potentially addictive drugs. But often opiates and benzos create dependency problems years before a person becomes addicted to them.

People continue taking opiates and benzos because when they attempt to stop taking the drugs even for a day they suffer withdrawal symptoms which can be frightening and often debilitating. Some of these pharmaceutical withdrawal symptoms are inability to sleep, agitation, restlessness, anxiety, vibrations or tremors, inability to function on the same level.

Source Of Pharmaceutical Dependency

Powerful and successful people become trapped into pharmaceutical dependency because they believe their is no other way to function without pharmaceuticals. This is a false belief created by ignorance and unpleasant experiences. Pharmaceutical drugs have their own set of withdrawal symptoms and side effects.

Pharmaceutical dependence is often caused by the actual side effects produced by drugs, drug interactions or neglected real physical or emotional problems. The cause of most if not all pharmaceutical dependency are drug effects and neglected problems.

Obviously the solution to pharmaceutical dependency is to remove and resolve the problems created by past prescription or other drug use. Unfortunately MDs and even medical detox centers only specialize in pharmaceutical treatments in detox centers.

Ending Pharmaceutical Dependence

Traditional medical detox focuses on prescribing more or different pharmaceuticals having different side effects which seem to counteract the existing side effects created by a past or current pharmaceutical schedule of use.

Ending Pharmaceutical dependence begins by reversing the damage created by pharmaceutical drug use. Simply stopping prescription drug use does not reverse the damage created by past drug use. Undoing or detoxifying the body is the first step to undo the accumulated toxic substances produced through metabolic processes in the body.

An early and vital step to fully ending pharmaceutical dependence is finding, identifying and fully handling the anxiety, disorders, sleep problems, depressive conditions and mood cycles which can and will debilitate us. These real problems were never properly diagnosed and rectified earlier. Unsolved but real problems are another major factor to resolve to end pharmaceutical dependency.

Alternative Medical Detox Advice

If you need and want a sure way to completely end pharmaceutical dependence you can read more about the type of programs and centers I’ve personally observed end the most difficult pharmaceutical problems. Your mental, emotional and physical health is not an option. People performing at their best require detox and rehab programs which are fast, effective and provide better than expected results.

DrugRehabAdvisor only works with pharmaceutical detox and rehab centers that deliver better than expected results. Drug Rehab Advisor expects to help you resolve whatever condition you’ve struggle with using alternatives to the usual pharmaceutical interventions which have been foisted off on you.

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Medical Detox Center nurse

Medical Detox uses medications as well as medical care to assist the withdrawal from alcohol, heroin or pain killers, methadone, heavy prescription drug, or alcohol abuse.

Medical Detox should be considered when:

• disturbing symptoms occur when attempting to withdraw and person started taking the drugs, alcohol or medications again
• when people want to withdraw more quickly than would be possible on an outpatient basis
• doctor recommends that they withdraw in an inpatient facility
• person feels more secure withdrawing on an inpatient basis.

An important distinction between detox and rehab should be made.

While medical detox usually takes one to two weeks at the most, rehab takes many weeks or months, and is designed to handle drug abuse and the underlying issues associated with such abuse.

The types of drugs people generally require medical withdrawal from are:

• Antipsychotics
• Opiates/Opiods, ie Methadone
• Alcohol
• Benzodiazepines
• Antidepressants

Prescription drugs like: high dose methadone, benzodiazepines, and long term use of psych meds require the most skilled medical detox. While medical detox can assist through the withdrawal of most medicines, ironically, medicines and not street drugs can present greater difficulty to fully detoxify from.

Cold turkey withdrawal refers to un-assisted or at-home withdrawal without any real understanding or assistance given. If nutritional therapy, medical supervision or holistic care is given the withdrawal is greatly eased. Those wishing guidance should get withdrawal manuals or download at-home advice.

The simplest drugs to detox from cold turkey are marijuana and cocaine. The depression and cravings which attend cocaine withdrawal often scares abusers off and they relapse back into using. Marijuana, cocaine and meth users often have difficultly sleeping during withdrawal.

Other Problems

Difficulties with sleep, anxiety, no appetite, aches and pains etc occur due to an absence of knowledge of what to do. Withdrawing from drugs at home is best done with the help of home manuals or expert advice on withdrawing at home. Both of these are available through our site.

Integrative Medical / Holistic Detox:

Holistic detox

The withdrawal from all drugs, alcohol and medication can be eased considerably through the use of proper hydration using electrolytes, nutrients, chelation therapy (IV drips of vitamins / nutrients), touch therapy and caring and concerned nursing care.

Many people will detox off of cocaine and heroin either themselves at home, simply stop use, or with the help of holistic withdrawal. Nutrients, hydration, care, rest and quiet provide the basis of an effective and safe withdrawal environment.

I’ve done extensive surveying of clients who’ve been through medical detox. I’ve found several repeating factors for people to consider before sending someone to a medical detox facility.

Checklist to do before checking into a medical detox facility:

1^st Does the facility usually deliver medical detox for the drugs one is coming off of?

2^nd Is the medical facility knowledgeable in taking people off of all medications while in detox? Ie, the person doesn’t leave the center on meds and with a prescription.

3^rd Are you simply rushing into any facility simply because they were connected to a hospital and therefore assumed they must know what to do? If so, re-evaluate the facility before considering detox

4^th Have you made arrangements for aftercare / live-in rehab once detox is complete?

5^th Does the medical clinic / center use alternative or complimentary / integrative medicine approaches at their clinic? Medical detox can be a restorative and bolstering experience if done well. Rapid recovery occurs if the detox uses nutritional and complimentary support to traditional medicine.

6^th Have you got a referral or consultant to advise you on detox center options before rushing into detox? While this step may not be considered vital, I have seen and heard from many clients who could have had a much more successful recovery if they would have followed this simple checklist prior to detox.

7^th Contact me if you consider medical detox as a needed or important step in your medical detoxification or you or a loved one is needing long-term rehab as part of your recovery plan.

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