Oxycontin is a powerful pain reliever that works well but it is also quite easily addicting. If a doctor has prescribed it for you, he or she will insist that you stay under his care so that he can carefully monitor your progress. Once a person becomes addicted to an oxycontin drug, it can easily lead to an overdose and there is a higher likelihood of death resulting from this.
Being a time release medication helps a person to control the pain when injured. However, it is also the reason many people become addicted to the pain reliever. They simply do not want to wait for it to take effect and end up taking more than the prescribed dosage or injecting it so that it goes immediately to work by entering the bloodstream right away. This leads to overdoses and many times death occurs when the person either does not get medical attention in time or has gone too far in the medication or overdose that the body can not recover.
It is especially important to continue under your doctor’s care if you have been prescribed an oxycontin pain reliever so that you are successfully able to go off the medication without succumbing to an addiction. Going through oxycontin withdrawal is rough on a lot of people because they become dependent on not having any pain and then even more dependent on the fact that their brain tells them the oxycontin is “needed” even after the original problem has gone away.
Both physical and psychological symptoms are contributing to oxycontin withdrawal and the symptoms can last a lot longer with oxycontin use than oxycodone relievers. The Narconon drug rehab program can help a person who finds himself addicted to oxycontin in many ways to detox without medicinal help.
