Withdrawal symptoms can be impossible to deal with. With many rehab centers, it might feel like you’re not warmly welcomed or accepted—or it may seem like their policies and methods don’t match your needs. Because of these reasons, many addicts don’t get into a rehabilitation program for years and years because of their assumptions about treatment.
What’s Most Feared—Withdrawal Symptoms
Why undergo withdrawal symptoms, then attend a rehab, when you’ve tried so many times that you feel no one can help?
When some struggling with substance use disorder wait a long time enter into a treatment program, they are only increasing their tolerance. When that time comes, there’s a chance that they’ve been using nonstop for a long period of time and are at the end of their rope. When that happens, there’s dangerous side effects that come with heavy, long-time drug or alcohol usage.
The more dangerous symptoms can include:
- liver failure
- seizure or stroke
- skyrocketing blood pressure and heart rate
- delirium tremens
- gagging, severe nausea
Not to mention, behavioral and cognitive problems such as memory loss, disorientation, and racing thoughts, or on the opposite end, lethargy, sluggishness, negative thoughts, paranoia, severe anxiety, depression, and more. Some going through withdrawal can even have hallucinations. And perhaps most famously, “delirium tremens” refers to the experience of tremors and uncontrollable shaking in the process of withdrawing from alcohol, which can even lead to a seizure or stroke.
You may not expect that withdrawal from alcohol is the most dangerous detoxification process—even over opioids—though that’s not to say that opioid withdrawal is not severe or dangerous. But delirium tremens alone is one of the most dangerous of withdrawal symptoms. That’s why a medically-assisted detoxification process is 100% necessary for long-time substance use disorderrs. With medication, assistance, and round the clock observation, it can be the difference between a successful recovery, and at worst, an unnecessary death.
