Why in drug rehab, do doctors use drugs to kick the addiction? How does it work?
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There are various drugs used for various reasons.
Sometimes you need similar drugs to stop the person from dying from withdrawal symptoms, other drugs help lessen withdrawal symptoms making it easier to kick the drug, then finally some drugs help stop the person from wanting to do the drugs in the first place.
If a person is addicted to something that is physically addictive, then if they just stop they will get really bad physical withdrawal and with things like alcohol or benzos that can kill you. So to help you stop using that drug often they use a similar drug to help them ween off that drug. While heroin withdrawal isn’t deadly often another opiate methadone is used to prevent severe withdrawal symptoms while not giving as much of a high.
There are also drugs that can be given to help lessen withdrawal symptoms. Stuff like benzos can be used with lessen lots of withdrawal symptoms. This isn’t always a good idea because benzo’s are probably the worst drug to be addicted to, some even think it’s worse than being addicted to heroin. But short term use is probably fine.
There are also psychoactive drugs which have shown lots of promise in getting someone to stop using drugs. These change the way someone thinks about things, so stop’s someone wanting or acting on any desires to use these drugs.
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