Heroin Detox

Heroin detox is effective in removing all opiates from the body

People often turn to Heroin as an illicit, self-designed treatment to mask:

• Physical or emotional pain.
• Or, trauma and other social insecurities.

Heroin dependency progresses rapidly due to:

• Uninformed recreational drug use.
• Withdrawal avoidance.
• Euphoric psychological effects of the drug.

Many Heroin users--just like patients overusing pain relievers for non-medical reasons--become accustomed to high doses just to maintain some semblance of stability. But most often they will self-medicate to avoid withdrawal.

This describes classic opiate dependency on Heroin. Next, addiction takes over when drug dependent patients seek to maintain their supply and use at any cost: often resulting in detrimental health and criminal consequences.

Heroin detox is a humane solution to break the opiate cycle.

The Waismann Method

At the Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification, we treat drug dependency as a reversible condition due to a legitimate chemical imbalance caused by prolonged Heroin use. We treat our patients who seek Heroin detox with professionalism, dignity and respect. We do not view opiate dependency, whether caused by Heroin or prescription medications, as a shameful, stereotypic disease.

Heroin Detox Differences

Careful selection of a safe Heroin detox program will help break Heroin dependency without incurring unnecessary, and lethal, risks.

1. Many managing physicians at other Heroin detox programs have not had formal training in intensive care medicine or anesthesiology.

A major concern during rapid detoxification is the danger of adrenaline surges that occur during the procedure. Most Heroin detox doctors are not prepared to avert them, or expert enough to handle them if they do arise. Unmonitored adrenaline surges during the withdrawal stage of Heroin detox can provoke severe conditions:

• Surges constrict the peripheral and coronary blood vessels.
• Surges set off dangerously high blood pressure.
• Surges accelerate heart rate.

2. Many Heroin detoxification centers minimize hospital time to save costs.

This reduction in service endangers a patient’s safety and compromises the effective outcome of the Heroin detox procedure. In-patient care should last a minimum of 4 days, and include full service medical assistance during:

• pre-procedure,
• detox procedure, and
• post-procedure transition times.

3. Many Heroin detox programs follow our old protocol for prolonged anesthesia.

The Waismann Method for Heroin detox has developed an accelerated rapid detoxification that limits the maximum anesthesia time to only 1-2 hours. (Not 6 to 8 hours, in outdated protocol that increases unnecessary risk for the patient). The Waismann Method sets the standard by which other detox treatments are measured.

4. Unlike Waismann, other rapid detox programs use opiate-based substitute drugs like Suboxone—especially in Heroin detox--to clean the brain of opiate drugs. This act replaces an illegal drug dependency with a legal one. The Waismann Method treats many patients regularly from other Heroin detox centers, who cannot curtail their long-term methadone or Suboxone use. When they attempt to do so, they have experienced severe withdrawal, and abandon those attempts to be opiate-free.

The Waismann Method never uses opiate drugs like Suboxone or Subutex during rapid detoxification. After Heroin detox, patients return home Heroin-free and opiate-free.

5. Some Heroin detox programs do not maintain pain management specialists or run medical testing.

The Waismann Method’s Board Certified Anesthesiologists specialize in pain management. Our doctors have over a decade of experience in opiate detoxification from Heroin. Our doctors also perform individualized brain chemistry and analyses for our patients prior to the procedure. In addition, our staff monitors the patient’s vital signs throughout the Heroin detoxification.

Heroin Detox Preparation

• Our physicians consult the patient about pre-existing conditions to minimize the risks, fear, and stigma, and to assure successful results with comfort.
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• The Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification begins when the patient is admitted to the hospital: Our patient undergoes a comprehensive physical exam (24 hours prior to the procedure).

• Before any opiate or Heroin detox treatment, our Waismann physicians diagnose:

• blood
• urine, and
• brain chemistry

• to pinpoint deficiencies that may have led to dependency.

• Based on testing, our doctors implement a personalized program of nutritional and hormone replacement to correct imbalances.

• Prior to the Heroin detox procedure, our doctors administer pre-medication to help stabilize body functions, and to assure a safe procedure.

• Our Heroin detoxification is performed in the ICU of a fully accredited, full service hospital, where patients benefit from the highest safety protocol available.
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• In-patients remain in care 24 to 48 hours after the procedure to guarantee a full, supervised medical transition. (Afterwards, patients may choose additional recuperation and therapy at our private Domus Retreat.)

Heroin detox patients sleep through physical withdrawal, under anesthesia, while the Waismann Method cleanses the brain’s receptors of the opiates. The Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification eliminates conscious cravings from withdrawal while the patient is under.

Our patients have found the Waismann Method for Heroin detoxification more humane, effective, and considerate than Heroin detox at traditional rehab programs.

The Waismann Method

The Waismann Method for Rapid Detoxification Under Anesthesia has established a clinically proven procedure to remove dependency on a wide range of opiates that include: Codeine, Darvocet ®, Dilaudid ®, Heroin, Hydrocodone, Lorcet ®, Lortab ®, Methadone, MS Contin ®, Norco ®, Oxycodone, OxyContin ®, Percocet ®, Percodan ®, Stadol ®, Suboxone ® (Buprenorphine ®), Tramadol (Ultram ®), Vicodin ®, and others.

We use advanced anesthesia techniques help produce the successful reversal of opiate dependency during Heroin detoxification.

• Upon awakening, the patient no longer has physical dependency on opiates or Heroin nor a conscious awareness of withdrawal during detoxification.

Our Optional After-Care and Treatment Center

The Waismann Method’s Domus Retreat offers an after-care environment, where Heroin detox patients can recuperate in a peaceful facility filled with dignity, respect, and optimism.

Domus Retreat also offers intensive psychotherapy that focuses on the individual’s core thinking patterns that contributed to dependency. We design individual and small group treatment in private settings to help avoid relapse. Domus Retreat also blends exclusive treatment with intimate spa elements to bring about significant and lasting change for your sustained recovery.

Domus Retreat’s private setting is limited to 6 patients at one time.

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