Why in drug rehab, do doctors use drugs to kick the addiction? How does it work?
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Stopping certain drugs when someone’s been using regularly cold turkey can be risky in both the physical sense (withdrawal can put huge strain on the body) and the mental sense (it’s incredibly unpleasant, and someone who’s addicted to a drug is strongly incentivized to do the drug when they’re feeling awful because they know it’ll alleviate the awful feeling).
If you keep someone using the drug (or a very similar drug that mostly scratches the same itch) but keep tapering the dose lower and lower it brings them in for a ‘soft landing’ as it were.
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