No matter what drug rehab site you go to they state, “our drug detox will make your detoxification experience painless…” or something along those lines.  I’m here to tell you that a heroin detox is going to be a little uncomfortable no matter what is done.  However, a quality detox will give its clients the much needed emotional support and encouragement that is needed.

Entering detox in Florida I was very skeptical.  The facility did an outstanding job at keeping me relatively comfortable.  However I thought the emotional support I received is what truly got me through my week or so of detox.  The staff  continuously told me how well I was doing and how much better I looked each day and I believed them.  Knowing that you are making progress is huge in the early stages of recovering from a drug addiction.

A proper detox was the first step that I had to take in order to achieve long term sobriety.  I had made numerous attempts by myself to kick my drug addiction but failed as I couldn’t get past being physically sick.  While I still had some minor symptoms in detox it was very manageable.  Once I was finished with detox I no longer physically craved heroin. I did mentally crave the drug but that to started to subside as I went through addiction treatment.  If I didn’t participate in drug detox I really don’t think that I would have never been able to get and stay sober.  I needed addiction treatment as well but detox got me over the hump of the physical cravings which I was never able to do before.