1) Be mentally prepared and have a strong will. For drug addicts, quitting drugs is a painful, arduous, and lengthy process, but it is also the only choice. The saying "it's easy to take drugs but hard to quit" is determined by the physiological and psychological dependence characteristics of drugs. Physiological dependence refers to how drugs strongly stimulate the central nervous system, causing comprehensive biochemical disorder in the body. Through repeated drug use, the body establishes a new balance on this disordered basis. If drug use suddenly stops, this new balance is broken, resulting in new disorders, leading to a series of severe physical discomforts and damages, known as withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms are extremely painful and difficult to endure, and can even be life-threatening. As for psychological dependence, it’s something that’s hard for ordinary people to comprehend, and something that addicts find incredibly hard to give up. Therefore, looking at the situation worldwide currently, there is no miraculous cure for quitting drugs. To succeed in quitting, apart from external enforcement, the addict must make a firm resolution and be ready to endure hardship and patience.
2) Go to formal detoxification institutions for treatment; do not attempt to quit on your own. Detoxification is a complex systematic project. You cannot rely on miracles happening, nor should you believe in folk remedies, secret formulas, itinerant doctors or witch doctors, misusing so-called detoxification drugs. Otherwise, not only will it waste time and money, but accidents may even occur. Some drug users, in order to avoid others knowing and damaging their reputation, try to quit on their own or with the help of family members. This is very dangerous because the withdrawal reactions during detoxification could trigger various complications. Without medical rescue conditions at home, accidents might happen, which could even be life-threatening. Therefore, drug users should go to voluntary detoxification institutions run by health care departments or the voluntary detoxification department of compulsory detoxification centers run by public security organs for detoxification treatment. These places are equipped with necessary medical facilities and strictly trained medical, nursing, inspection, and management personnel with treatment experience. In terms of examination, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, nursing, observation, drug management, safety measures, living schedule, etc., there is a complete set of strict management systems and tight organizational discipline. These detoxification institutions are managed extremely strictly, and the treatment is very safe.
4) Auxiliary treatment, alleviating symptoms. During the detoxification period, withdrawal symptoms are often unbearable. To help detoxification personnel get through this difficult time, for those with particularly strong reactions, medical staff can adopt corresponding symptomatic auxiliary treatment measures based on individual cases. For example, appropriately selecting some non-anesthetic analgesics, giving antiemetic drugs to those with severe vomiting, using *** for those with severe insomnia, choosing anti-anxiety drugs for those who are anxious and restless, and selecting laxatives for constipation.
In addition, since many detoxification personnel suffer from various chronic diseases, after quitting, their bodies become extremely weak, and various latent or existing diseases are exposed. Their bodies lack resistance, so they also need symptomatic treatment at this time.
5) Reasonable eating, strengthening nutrition. Long-term drug users have disordered gastrointestinal function, mostly manifested as indigestion and malnutrition absorption, making their physical constitutions very weak and disease-resistant ability low. Especially for some protracted symptoms in the later stages of quitting, although certain drugs can be used, they often have minimal effects or are not suitable for long-term use. The key lies in improving nutrition and strengthening physical exercise to restore physical fitness as soon as possible. Therefore, in detoxification treatment, the dietary nutrition, rest system, activity arrangements, etc., of detoxification personnel must all follow the scientific and reasonable arrangements of the supervising doctor.
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