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Drug Rehab for Concurrent Addiction to Alcohol & Pain Pills

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Conservative estimates report that more than 6 million Americans are battling with an addiction to pain pills, and many of these people are co abusing alcohol and other drugs in combination with prescribed opiates.

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I. What Are The Reasons For Poly Drug Addiction?
Pain patients using pharmaceuticals in a legitimate attempt to control chronic or severe pain sometimes increases the potency of the analgesic effects through the addition of central nervous system depressing alcohol to their pharmaceutical treatment regimen.
II. What Are The Dangers?
Because both opiates and alcohol are central nervous system depressants, the dangers of accidental overdose are magnified when these two substances are consumed concurrently.
III. Detox off of alcohol and pills
Because there is a concurrent addiction to more than one substance, there is a need for a corresponding detox off of both substances.
IV. Drug Rehab Treatment
Methadone or other opiate substitution therapy should not be considered when there is a corresponding addiction to alcohol.
V. Aftercare
A lengthy and intensive period of aftercare remains the best way to maximize the adherence to the lessons of rehab, and to ensure long term rehab compliance and sobriety.

The poly drug abuse of pain pills and alcohol has negative implications for increased dependency, increased bodily harm and risks of fatal overdose, decreased cognitive and psychological performances, exacerbated detox and withdrawal symptoms and complicated drug treatment and aftercare.

The addiction to any one drug is problematic, and when the addiction occurs to more than one concurrent substance the treatment needs to be correspondingly intensive.

The dangers of pain pill and alcohol addiction remain high within our society, and a recent survey of high school kids indicates that as many as 20% of high school seniors had abused both pain pills and alcohol to get high.

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