Morphine Addiction

Morphine addiction, in some patients, reaches levels so high that many rehab centers refuse to treat it.

The potential for Morphine addiction compares to that for heroin. In studies, equipotent doses of Morphine and heroin demonstrated that opiate tolerant subjects had no preference for one drug over the other.

Often patients take dangerously high doses of prescription pain medication, which border on ‘addiction’—in the non-traditional sense of the word.                         
One of two particular patients had been ingesting extraordinarily high doses of opiates, due to chronic pain, plus taking intraspinal Morphine daily. His total dosage reached the equivalent of 40,000 mgs of oral Morphine per day.

Morphine Addiction Origins

Many causes may instigate Morphine addiction. Similar to this patient’s case, addiction matures as the consequence of an on-going, untreated dependency. The patient did not choose Morphine addiction. It came, for him, from medicating in order to:

• Alleviate physical pain.

Other dependency stems from medicating to:

• Relieve emotional pain, or from
• Prescriptions for misdiagnosed depression or anxiety.

Finally, some dependencies are caused by:

• Avoiding withdrawal.
• Experimentation with recreational drugs.

All five avenues can nurture dependency into Morphine addiction, and incur withdrawal syndrome.

Morphine Addiction

Today, dependency turned Morphine addiction can be medically reversed. Advanced science and our 10 years of Waismann’s detoxification experience allow us to effectively treat dependency.
 
According to Dr. Clifford A. Bernstein of the Waismann Institute, medical treatment of anesthesia-assisted rapid detox paves the way for chronic pain patients taking excessive doses of Morphine who face the danger of dependency.

These were the most extreme cases doctors have encountered. "By taking these tremendous levels of narcotics,” explains Dr. Bernstein, “both patients could have died.”

"Clearly these patients could never have stopped taking narcotics without medical intervention. The withdrawal would have been unbearable and debilitating," he says. "These success stories are testaments to the potential for these people to get their lives back and live them drug-free.”

Morphine Addiction and Detox

Most facilities refuse to treat Morphine addiction that exceeds 100 mgs per day for the sheer magnitude of subsequent withdrawal. “Due to negligent over-prescription, theses patients were taking eight to 100 times that amount," Dr. Bernstein reveals.

Patients no longer need to turn to ineffective detox methods employed by most rehabilitation centers. Waismann Method doctors reverse opiate dependency in a safe, humane, and non-judgmental process. Our patients who once faced Morphine dependency or Morphine addiction now continue their lives opiate-free.

“If not for rapid detox, these patients would probably have never been treated,” Dr. Bernstein tells the Pharma Nexus website. ”People suffering dependency on painkillers deserve to know that rapid detox is a viable option."