From mental health problems such as insomnia and adhd to problems regarding drug and alcohol addiction and substance abuse, it is hugely important to seek treatment as soon as possible. Addressing issues such as insomnia and adhd or drug addiction early on is immensely helpful and will increase your chance of having a higher quality of life. And conditions such as insomnia and adhd can even be linked to other medical issues and so addressing them can be hugely beneficial in not only your attention patterns (and span) as well as your sleep patterns, but the whole health of your whole body. Seeking treatment from a doctor or a reputable medical clinic, be it from a family practice doctor or a detox doctor, is the first step towards building a better life for yourself – and often for your family as well.
Drug addiction, particularly opioid addiction, is all too common in all parts of the United States. In fact, by the year of 2015 there were more than twenty and a half million people living with a substance abuse problem. Of these people, at least two million people had substance abuse issues that were directly linked to misusing and abusing prescription painkillers. On top of this fact, nearly as many as six hundred thousand were heroin users. This drug abuse has long term consequences to both your brain as well as the overall health of your body and in many cases of drug overdose, will even lead to death. In fact, different kinds of drug overdose all together make up the number one cause of death in the United States, leading to more than fifty two thousand and two hundred drug abuse related deaths in the year of 2015 alone – a number that has only been climbing in the few years since. Of those approximate fifty two thousand deaths, more than twenty thousand in total were related to painkillers and very nearly thirteen thousand deaths were directly linked back to heroin use and overdose.
But as important as it is to treat drug use and abuse as soon as is possible, seeking treatment for such a problem can be a hugely difficult choice to make. In part, this is because of the ramifications of withdrawing from drugs, particularly for the daily – often multiple times throughout the day, even – drug user. Withdrawal symptoms can be far from pleasant and are even dangerous in some situations. For instance, common withdrawal symptoms include anxiety, insomnia and adhd, and dysphoria. These symptoms, particularly common in opioid withdrawal, are often long lasting even after the acute period of withdrawal from the drug and the symptoms associated with it, most powerful in the first one to three days, have abated and lessened throughout that first week. And withdrawal begins quickly, setting in as quickly as six hours after the last dose of a fast acting drug like heroin, but no later than three days after the last dose for other drugs and opioids currently in use across the country.
Because it is so difficult to withdraw, often leaving long lasting symptoms of things such as insomnia and adhd, it is highly advised to avoid a home detox and find out where to enter into a rehab facility if at all possible. A family practice residency, even if they are not equipped to handle a detox (or the symptoms such as insomnia and adhd that come along with it) will often be able to refer a detox facility or rehab facility where such a withdrawal period can be managed safely and as comfortably as possible for the drug user. It will certainly still be difficult, but they are much likely to be able to stick through the process to the end, getting themselves clean in a way that is often not possible or probable without the help of professionals and a safe and supportive environment to do it in in the first place.
Getting medical treatment from anything from insomnia and adhd to drug addiction is hugely important, and should be sought out as soon as problem is noticed in your life.
