Let us first talk about opioids and what its effects on a human body. Opioids or some may say narcotics are a drug that is often found on prescription drugs as they also contained in prescription pain relievers such as hydrocodone, fentanyl, oxycodone, and tramadol. Heroin is also a kind of opioid but is even more on the illegal side of things, especially in the law.
Healthcare providers give opioids to those who just underwent a major surgery or an accident to reduce the pain the patient feels after the event. A patient may also get them if they are suffering from health conditions that induce severe pain like cancer and such. Also, a patient could be prescribed with opioids for other, albeit lesser life-threatening diseases that give the patients chronic pain.
However, prescription opioids are only on hand for certain diseases for usually a short period at the discretion of your healthcare provider. Further usage of this drug could cause potential risks like abuse and addiction.
Risks
Taking opioids beyond your healthcare provider’s rules and instructions can well be called opioid abuse. Stealing them also means that you are accepting these narcotics through illegal means such as buying them from a third party seller or taking them from another patient’s prescription to get high. It is worth taking note that addiction is a chronic brain disease, making the patient always seek out drugs at the expense of getting their lives destroyed by them.
With that said, people might try to get rid of their opioid dependence as soon as possible, and with the help of the people around them. However, the path to being independent of these narcotics can prove to be quite steep, as getting them out of your system will take everything out of you.
When a person wants to quit them, they will have what we call withdrawal symptoms that include shaking, having the flu, nausea, diarrhea, and cravings.
Luckily, there are steps or methods that a person can do in the comfort of their own homes.
Tips
One withdrawal symptom is shaking. To combat this, you should lessen or quit altogether caffeine or any drinks that are caffeinated such as coffee or soda. If you are a coffee drinker then you might also try a decaffeinated coffee. Caffeinated beverages can worsen the case of shaking or worst; they might cause tremors.
However, if you are already having severe shaking or tremors, the best way to combat them is to never mind them and distract yourself with something else. Fighting by resisting yourself will worsen the symptoms and definitely will be more pronounced.
Distraction techniques should be made aware of the patient. One of these techniques is holding a heavy object or just watching television. Distracting yourself will lessen your awareness of the tremors and will eventually dissipate them.
Another withdrawal symptom is nausea. For this symptom, there are several items in your diet that you have to consider. One of these is bland foods such as bananas, crackers, apples, toast, and rice. With these foods, they will lessen your chances of having an upset stomach, also decreasing nausea in the process.
You can also have lighter meals throughout the day, instead of having fewer but larger ones. Accompanying them with more water will likely help you to be more hydrated to negate the dehydration caused by diarrhea.
Of course, the biggest enemy a patient will endure is his/her cravings. Cravings are when a patient wants to take one pill or wholly relying on narcotics again, to get high. Unfortunately, it is a part of the withdrawal process a person will undergo.
When a patient undergoes this event, he/she will have negative thoughts that the patient will often have. With this, the patient might get discouraged throughout the whole withdrawal process and might fail it.
To fight that, the usage of distraction techniques like mentioned earlier will be very helpful. A patient could also use medications throughout the whole process to keep him/her be free of narcotics.
One of these medications that will help the patient efficiently is Zubsolv. Zubsolv contains two medicines: buprenorphine and naloxone. Both of these medicines are used by practitioners to help combat opioid dependence. These medicines are part of a group that is opioid antagonists that can help prevent withdrawal symptoms. They are over-the-counter medicines that can be acquirable with a Zubsolv coupon.
Takeaway
Opioid dependence is harmful to you and the people around you as you are not the only person who will get affected by this addiction. Acknowledging the problem, doing an action towards stopping them, and having your family and friends with you throughout the whole fight will surely get you clean and free of narcotics.
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