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The news breaking article in the Chicago Tribune Oct 27, 2009 by Sam Roe and contributing writer Nicole Leonhardt exposed a massive over drugging practice by Chicago doctors on Chicago residents leading to pharmaceutical drug addiction and numerous health problems.

Over drugging and unnecessary prescription of psychotropic drugs in the Chicago area is so systemic, residents are safer to seek rehab and detox treatments outside Chicago IL.

According to the Chicago Tribune article on pharmaceutical abuse:

Deaths caused by over or unnecessary drugging in nursing homes were directly connected to 12 deaths and citations against the offending homes.

1,200 violations and 2,900 patients suffered from needless use of pharmaceuticals.

Chicago IL doctors, hospitals and even rehab centers are part of the problem as well. Chicago residents witness the prevalent pharmaceutical problem mostly through their relatives, friends and work associates. Many are on depressant, anxiety, psychotic, sleep and mood psychotropic drugs.

Many residents who leave town for a while often discover that not as many people are on psychotropic medications. Friends of mine from Chicago comment upon the wide spread use of pharmaceuticals in the city, saying: “Most people seem to be taking something”.

Integrated Health Rehab and Detox Programs are Effective

Fittingly, people wanting to get detoxed from psychotropic drugs do best when the detox and rehab center uses natural and supportive healthy treatments and not just different pharmaceutical drugs.

Many traditional detox and rehab programs promoting dual diagnosis, co-occurring disorders, mental health assessments, psychiatric care rarely if ever use natural, alternative and holistic treatments, except in a placebo fashion.

Specialty rehab and detox for psychotropic, pharmaceutical and alcohol programs outside Chicago are getting excellent results using lots of natural and holistic remedies. The fundamental difference with rehab program that I’ve noticed as a drug rehab advisor and reviewer of detox and rehab programs, is in their core philosophy.

Find the Reheb and Detox Philosophy to Determine Success

Many programs core philosophy is based in the 12 Step model or psychotropic medications and psychiatric evaluations requiring mind altering meds, NIDA research or simply feel good empathy for their clients.

Other integrative rehab and detox philosophies have natural health, nutrition, and alternative medical care as their core philosophy. I have to admit I gravitate to these integrative rehab programs for Chicago residents over pharmaceutical models.

A third detox and rehab philosophy is client centered. While many detox and rehab centers claim that all therapies are individualized, not all will adjust to the client and still achieve the end in mind: a drug-free and sober healthy and happy individual.

I have personally seen the greatest gains and turn arounds from people using a frame work rehab and detox philosophy centered in natural health and real life, living in the present plus a tailored program for each client to resolve specific health issues, people and behavior problems.

Learn more about what to look for in a good detox and rehab center on this DrugRehabAdvisor site on Detox Withdrawal Programs.

I’m the Drug Rehab Advisor

Detoxing off of Klonopin or Clonazepam or the other benzodiazepine drugs in this category is a very specialized a highly technical activity. An inpatient detox center withdraws people from alcohol or opiates (heroin, pain pills) may be in the ‘Mickey Mouse’ level of skill concerning Klonopin and benzo detox.

Get the right Klonopin detox center to work with first.

Klonopin Detox

Getting the right Klonopin or benzodiazepine detox program and center to work with should be your first objective. Don’t minimize or brush this step off. I’ve worked as benzo detox consultant for over 3 years, just finding people effective Clonazepam detox centers and doctors who really know their business.

Many centers were called, few were chosen. Most but not all medical detox centers I researched, talked to and consulted with had a ‘no problem’ attitude about Klonopin detox. Here’s the real kicker: I’ve been researching effective Ativan detox services since 2000 and I made some believable discoveries.

• most benzo detox facilities now believe a year or more of detox is the way to go, talk about ineffective inpatient treatment
• outpatient programs properly advise people to slowly taper and get personal counseling on their problems, not on their drug use
• many if not most Klonopin and benzo detox is not detox but a pharmaceutical switch or substitution for a longer acting benzo, ie Librium plus some anti-depressants

What’s the problem here?

Each and everyone of the above programs and centers didn’t know one thing:

Most Inpatient Benzo Detox Centers Don’t Know Benzo’s are Toxic

There was the BIG surprise. These Klonopin detox centers were feeding people benzo’s as part of their therapy yet they thought that the benzo’s were actually ‘good’ for the client. I’m wondering if the doctors and specialists in these detox centers have even read the 4 pages of side effects listed for these drugs. I’m sure they were too busy writing prescriptions for their next patient.

Klonopin Detox, Lesson #1

Work with someone who actually gets people off of Klonopin and benzo’s successfully by knowing who to work with and who to avoid like the flu.

The 1st lesson to take away from this Clonazepam detox blog is to only work with detox centers that know what benzo’s are. They’re toxic drugs which mess up a person’s hormone, glandular function and create semi-permanent stress reactions which seem to perpetuate — if you or your medical specialist doesn’t know exactly how Klonopin detox works.

Here’s your Klonopin detox hint of the day. It’s only 30% step down but 70% emotional and nutritional.

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Psych meds reduce people’s performance levels and can even ‘cripple’ them into dysfunctioning conditions. This success from one of DrugRehabAdvisor’s alternative detox centers shows how anyone who want’s to regain their natural health and is willing to do what it takes to achieve health and wellness again, can and will succeed.

I was taking 13 different medications, most of which were psychiatric medications except 2 for blood pressure. My doctor at home kept calling me “crazy” and wanted to lock me up in a psych. ward and feed me more drugs. I was also told by my doctor that I would always be on medications.  I didn’t like what the drugs did to me because they made me function at a low level. Normally I am a very high-functioning person. My energy was drained from the medications and my illegal drug use. I had tried to stop taking my medications on my own, but was unsuccessful.

I am now off ALL of my medications and I finally have my sanity back. The detoxification processes, supplements, and proper nutrition has helped me to become medication free and happy again! Also, now that I am off my medications, my chronic hypoglycemia has come under control and I no longer wake up shaking. Also, I am free of my blood pressure medications that I started using over 4 years ago.

J. H.

Bipolar and PTSD sufferers there are alternative answers, and there are excellent drug-free answers to mental & emotional disorders.

PTSD & BiPolar Disorder

Most people diagnosed with any mental disorder are never given informed consent by the doctors or psychiatrists prescribing them pills. PTSD & bipolar meds are psychotropic medications with side effects producing anxiety, depression, suicidality, weight gain, weight loss, and about 4 pages of other pharmaceutically created disorders.

Disorder Rehab for Pharmaceutical Dependent

Imagine rehab which not only eliminated your need for PTSD and Bipolar Meds, but also handled the myriad of nasty side effects created by these drugs. Life would be better, maybe even worth smiling and laughing about.

PTSD & Bipolar Rehab & Detox Success

I have been diagnosed with depression anxiety disorder PTSD as well as bipolar two disorder. I had been taking various medications since the age of six.

While here I discovered that I could fix the way I had always felt by adding supplements and not medications. I learned that I was lacking endorphins serotonin as well as GABA.

After about two weeks I began to notice a change in my thinking as well as my feelings. I told my dad that I seemed to be in a funk I did not know what was wrong with me I was not depressed or anxious manic or self-loathing. At this point my father told me “Well you feel normal” what a concept for the first time in my life I felt normal.

I only wish others could know how this feels not worrying about any side effects and truly being comfortable with whom they are.

It was scary to start this process but now that I am done I am so glad that my other treatment center sent me here. I have all the confidence that I can live a normal life and that I can continue to live and love myself. RL

Detox from Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs can be the most complex to detox from. Rehabilitation from prescription pills is a long road for those trying to detox on their own at home. A recent prescription pill detox success came in from a specialized alternative medicine psychotropic drug withdrawal center.

This success detoxing from Zoloft is testimony of how the right center is matched to the right client to get a wonderful detox in record time.

It seemed impossible that I could get off Buspirone and Zoloft in just four weeks, but it was worth a try. I was drug free in two weeks. Amazing. It would have taken me 14 months on my own.  R.A.
Contact Drug Rehab Advisor for help off of difficult psychiatric or mood altering medications.

The problem with lorazepam and ativan is the difficulty contemporary or traditional medical practice is having with detoxing people from these prescription drugs.

In my opinion and based on the 100s of phone calls I receive and even more emails I receive from people experiencing unnecessary difficulty and hardship due to extended lorazepam withdrawal, Ativan & lorazepam top my list of most addictive and troublesome drugs for good average people in the world.

Ativan and lorazepam dependency and addiction affects drug abusers, true, but it mostly is destabilizing honest and innocent people who just went to see their doctor about a problem they were having. This problem may have been difficulty relaxing, unwinding, falling asleep; or the problem may have been produced by another drug they were taking and now were put onto lorazepam.

Lorazepam & Ativan

The problem with benzodiazepine prescription drugs (the class of drugs that lorazepam, Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax can be found in) and the doctors who prescribe these anti-anxiety drugs is that the doctor does not educate and properly warn the patient about the 4 pages of potential side effects these life changing drugs contain. The doctor doesn’t talk about problems with lorazepam dependency, extensive withdrawal issues, brain zaps etc. No informed consent is given the patient before being introduced to these extremely powerful mind altering and mood altering drugs.

Lorazepam Detox & Rehab

While some or most people attempt to tapper off of lorazepam and ativan or Klonopin, these at home tappers can extend for a year or more. Traditional Medical detox and rehab centers may only switch pharmaceuticals while detoxing someone off a benzodiazepine drug and others will use phenobarbital, the net result is a bad or rough detox and often perpetuating withdrawal symptoms after detox. Those tend to be ineffective and ‘quick fix’ problems for a bigger issue.

The correct way to detox and rehabilitate someone from years of being dependent or using lorazepam or Ativan is to find out first how their body is functioning, if the drug has knocked out any normal hormonal response and determine how toxic the body has become. Pharmaceutical drugs like Ativan can create a very toxic body and helping the body to eliminate these toxins naturally will speed up recovery sometimes as much as 100 times! Fortunately there is a solution to correctly detoxing from benzo’s.

Contact DrugRehabAdvisor, but first visit our pharmaceutical drug detox programs for prices and procedures.

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Prescription Drug Rehab: Centers

What qualities make up an effective prescription drug rehab center?

What would you expect to experience while at a prescription rehab center?

How long are most prescription drug rehab programs?

Prescription Drug Rehab:

Qualities of an effective Prescription Rehab Center

• use only integrative doctors or sometimes MDs and NDs
• focus on health
• centers that use dual diagnosis criteria is doing so for billing sake, carefully determine the intent of these centers first
• are not part of a larger hospital or corporate Medical practice activity
• have a long history of success with prescription drug detox / rehab

Prescription Drug Rehab Personal Experience

• people should be slowly or quickly improving day to day
• healthy diet, exercise, nutrition, allergies & sensitivities all addressed early on in program
• better sleeping
• generally calming influences enhancing ones recovery
• a great deal of personal care, not group reliance
• certainty of ability to fully recover gained through rehab process

Length of Prescription Drug Rehab Programs

First, let’s understand we are discussing rehab not only detox here. While detox can often be accomplished to great gains and a pain free situation in 7 to 14 days for most every drug under specialized detox, drug rehab is a different process.

• prescription drug rehab programs take a minimum of 30 days
• long term rehab program involving complete physical, emotional and mental recovery can take 4 to 6 months or more
• inpatient drug rehab is the shortest, fastest and safest method of ending dependency to prescription drugs
• outpatient programs often take a longer time to complete to gain any real satisfaction or resolution to a drug dependency, however, if a person is willing to relocate for a short period of time, say one month, an outpatient program could work for them as well

DrugRehabAdvisor specializes in prescription drug rehab & detox programs. These prescription rehab programs / centers specialize in ending prescription drug rehab / detox.

Prescription drug rehabs are rehab centers which specialize in detox & rehab for those dependent or possibly addicted to pharmaceutical drugs. Often rehab clients became hooked onto prescription drugs due to doctor mismanagement of their health care program.

Many professionals, executives and independent business people have been blindsided by powerful prescription drugs. Rehab & detox is often the only or best option for people caught up in a losing battle with health issues, side effects and withdrawal effects that they can’t seem to overcome.

You and others are not alone. Millions of Americans and Canadian professionals have become dependent on prescription pharmaceuticals. MDs have been given license to freely prescribe addictive and dependency causing drugs to clients whose only fault was ignorance about pharmaceutical effects.

Prescription Drug Rehab

The best solution to a prescription drug dependency is to search out prescription drug rehab & detox centers which specialize in ending pharmaceutical dependence.

This at first, may seem to be an easy task: find a good rehab / detox centre specializing in prescription rehab.

If you’ve been through one, two or more detox / rehab attempts off prescriptions only to find yourself back using prescriptions you know the value of a really good detox / rehab center program. An effective rehab/detox center will do more than get you off drugs for awhile; it will give you back your life.

Drug Rehab & Detox from Prescriptions

Often times people show pity for those poor souls who’ve become addicted to amphetamines or pain pills like Oxycontin or methadone. Oxy and methadone require help and clients coming off these drugs are having wonderful gains of health, well being and regaining their freedom.

Pain pills are some of the most addictive drugs prescribed today.

If you’re angry with your doctor or the drug companies now, I really understand.

Rehab Ends Prescription Dependency

Learning the factors of drug dependency is the first step. To gain a better understanding of how a person is slowly or rapidly made drug dependent is the first step to gaining an understanding of how to end prescription drug use.

DrugRehabAdvisor.com gives a short 6 min video which can help people take the first step toward ending their prescription dependency.

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Detox from Prescription Drugs

Are you looking for prescription detox programs that work? We can help you comfortably detox  from prescription drugs without other drugs to substitute for them.

Detoxification specialists in prescription drug detox use different strategies and techniques to detoxify and rehabilitate people suffering from prescription addiction. This detox advisor site specializes in helping people live well without pharmaceutical addiction.

Prescription dependency or addiction to meds is a consequence of a pharmaceutically dependent society.

How Prescription Detox Programs Should Work

Prescription detox programs should cure one of being dependent on pharmaceuticals. How could a person end dependency to prescriptions?

Most prescription drugs have side effects which create or mimic addiction or dependency symptoms. After years of being on prescriptions, a person can have withdrawal effects from coming off of prescriptions like anti-depressants or sleeping pills.

Therefore a medical detox center or rehab that uses drug replacement like methadone, suboxone, anti-anxiety meds, sleeping pills or benzos, are simply ‘drug swapping’. Drug swapping is the activity of trading one prescription addiction for another pharmaceutical dependency.

Problems with Prescription Detox Programs

Drug swapping in prescription drug detox programs is common place in traditional medical detox programs. Why is this? Shouldn’t a person be detoxed off of pills and end dependency to pharmaceuticals in detox centers? Yes you should, but most detox center staff are trained by pharmaceutically trained MDs who encourage people to stay on prescriptions for life – as if they had an incurable disease.

The belief a client has a disease, even though the doctor can not identify or cure it, except by addicting a person to drugs, is destroying hope for people wanting to live normal lives off prescriptions.

Prescription Detox Solutions

Breaking free from dependency to prescription pharmaceuticals requires help from someone who specializes in ending peoples’ addiction. What if you could become not dependent on prescriptions everyday? How would your life feel? What would life be like if you could simply feel well without prescriptions?

See the Drug Rehab Advisor and get help to end prescription pharmaceutical dependency.

Taking psychotropic or psychiatric meds can lead to drug addiction problems that require rehab or specialized detox programs for psych meds. You can get the best Rehab Advice to end prescription med addiction with Drug Rehab Advisor. The right rehab program is key to your successful rehabilitation.

Doctors and even detox and rehab professionals are generally baffled by the physical, emotional and mental addiction people develop to psych meds. Traditional medical programs for psych detox, tapers and rehab are making rehab and detox very rough and stressful.

Rehab for Psych Meds, Alcohol and Drugs

Rehab and detox from psych meds, drugs or alcohol should be a smooth and fairly quick process without major problems. An ideal rehab & detox program off meds or drugs would be pain and stress free. Factually, your detox center or MD probably wouldn’t know how to achieve a stress free detox off meds.

If you’re trying to detox off of psych drugs your doctor or psych has probably advised you against it. MDs and Psychs are told by pharmaceutical reps to keep people on meds as long as possible.

The Right Rehab Program

Preventing or eliminating the possibility of the following effects is one reason to get expert Rehab & Detox advice before attempting withdrawal from psych meds. Drug Rehab Advisor can only recommend programs we’ve been in contact with through our clients or directly by personal contact.

Psychiatric medications are linked to these health tragedies:

• Brain & liver damage / prefrontal lobe shrinkage

• Tardive dyskinesia (involuntary movements)

• Diabetes, insulin resistance & weight gain

• Cancer

• Exacerbated psychosis and other mental health set backs

• Early mortality rates: psych meds can take up to 25 years off your life

• Anxiety, depression, increased perception of stress, adrenal fatigue, GI disorders, etc.

• Nearly guaranteed illegal drug addiction

• Suicide

• Aggression / violent behavior; Murder

• Increased hospitalization due to sometimes lethal side-effects

• Increased incarceration due to increase in violent crimes, drug addiction & homelessness associated with psychotropic medications.

Detox and Withdrawals: Have You Experienced This?

What should have been a one month detox becomes a 6 month or 1 year taper program. A short one to three month rehabilitation and recovery from a stressful period in life becomes 2 to 5 years on anti-depressants.

A time of panic and nervousness is treated by addicting you onto anti-anxiety meds or benzo’s. These drugs are often the longest to withdrawal from and make the initial anxiety seem like a picnic. Reports of 6 months to 3 years of withdrawal symptoms when tapering or detoxing from benzo’s are now common.

Do you think 6 months of a stressful withdrawal is fair to be put through? I don’t think it’s right. If you’re now living this nightmare, you’ll know I’m not exaggerating. If you’re not having troubles, I’m really happy you escaped these problems.

Detox and Withdrawal from meds, alcohol and drugs should be a smooth and painless experience taking weeks. Extensively long taper programs are often recommended by doctors who don’t know how to get people well. Those doctors only know how to medicate and write prescriptions. Those doctors aren’t much good in rehab programs.

Getting the best rehab advice possible for meds, alcohol and drug withdrawal and detox is what drives Drug Rehab Advisor. We are only interested in excellent results.

Let us know when you want the best rehab help you or your family can afford. Your health is worth it.