Opioids can be helpful medications for relieving pain. They reduce the pain signals that your brain receives and also change how your brain responds to pain. However, individuals often abuse these drugs for their euphoric high. When opioid misuse leads to addiction, you need an opioid treatment program.
Opioid drugs include hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone, oxymorphone, tramadol, sufentanil, and paregoric. There are also brand-name formulations including these opioids, some mixing them with other painkillers like acetaminophen.
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When Do You Need an Opioid Treatment Program?
When you first started using your medication, you had control over your choice to take it. Over time, your desire to keep feeling its positive feelings led you to take more. Because your brain changed and adapted to the drug, your body feels as though you need it in order to function. By this point, addiction has set in.
Recognizing your problem with opioids is the first step toward addiction treatment. By this point, you suffer physical, mental, and behavioral symptoms of your addiction. These symptoms include not being able to stop abusing the drug on your own, despite knowing that it’s damaging your life.
Abusing opioids causes various physical problems. These include poor coordination, drowsiness, slowed breathing, nausea, vomiting, constipation, agitation, slurred speech, and poor decision-making. You also ignore your responsibilities, neglect others’ needs, and suffer relationship damage. You sleep too much, suffer mood swings, and experience irritability, depression, poor motivation, and anxiety, all so you can feel a brief high.
Abusing opioids brings a high potential for overdose. Symptoms of opioid overdose include being unresponsive, irregular breathing, slow pulse, vomiting, unconsciousness and tiny pupils. These symptoms progress to stopped breathing and cardiac arrest, which can lead to death.
All of these problems of opioid addiction mean you need the help of a quality treatment program. Without treatment, your life will continue to spiral out of control and you may even die.
What Is an Opioid Treatment Program?
Opioid treatment programs offer therapies, education, support, and guidance for ending your addiction. Your experience in treatment will be different than anyone else’s, just like your addiction is unique to you. During drug rehab, you and your peers share the common goal of living better lives in healthy recovery. You also learn how to prevent relapse.
When you stop using opioids, you go through withdrawal. However, going through the withdrawal process alone can be dangerous—even life-threatening. A professional detox program will keep you comfortable, safe, secure, and healthy as you cleanse your body of harmful toxins. Detox is the first step on the road to recovery, but it’s not a substitute for the rehabilitative treatment you need for a better life.
When you continue with comprehensive addiction treatment programs, you’ll gain the therapies you need for lasting recovery. These therapies include a variety of methods and practices, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). You’ll go through individual counseling, group therapy, Family Support, and other types of sessions.
During opioid treatment, you learn more about yourself, your addiction, and what made you turn to substance abuse in the first place. All of this knowledge, understanding, and awareness helps you achieve stronger recovery and gain coping skills you need for lasting sobriety.
Relaxing, Amenity-Rich Opioid Addiction Treatment in Southern California
In Southern California, Serenity Lodge provides men’s residential and intensive outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. Our 22-acre grounds on Lake Arrowhead offer a relaxing, serene environment where men like you decompress while focusing on a future without drugs.
Amenities of Serenity Lodge include:
- Professional recording studio
- Movie theater
- Pool and sauna
- Meditation therapies
- Nutritional prepared meals therapy
- 1,500 square foot fitness gym
- Racquetball and golf
Through these amenities and the right addiction therapy approaches, you gain hope for lasting recovery alongside male peers. If you or a man you love need opioid treatment, call Serenity Lodge at (855) 932-4045.
