Ontario is affected by and is part of a worldwide trend towards increased substance abuse and reliance on opioid prescription pain killers; the most commonly prescribed being Percocet and oxycontin.
According to a Police Council report of March 2010, Ontario spent $54 million on OxyContin alone, under the Ontario Drug Benefit Program that provides free pain killers to senior citizens, people on social security and people with disabilities, in the year 2008. This is a direct result of a decision made in the year 2000, to add OxyContin to the provincial drug formulary. Pain killers Percocet and OxyContin are both prone to substance abuse, by way of over prescription, and by robbery from authorized pharmaceutical suppliers, and lead to widespread opiate addiction.
Addiction to pain killers Percocet and OxyContin in Ontario, obtained on prescription or illicitly, leads to death, disability, and widespread crime throughout the province of Ontario. People without the means to fund an extended health care/drug plan privately are limited in their options to what is supplied at public expense for the relief of chronic pain.
People who develop an addiction to Percocet and OxyContin find that recovery from their substance abuse will be funded at public expense, if they go to traditional drug rehab for their oxycontin addiction treatment. Unfortunately, traditional drug rehab for oxycontin addiction uses a substitute drug regime and uses minimal detox methods with limited remedial support.
People under the healthcare system in Ontario, who develop an addiction to OxyContin will find that traditional drug rehab methods do not bring full recovery from their addiction. After traditional OxyContin addiction treatment people still have withdrawal symptoms, still suffer from cravings, and are at risk of fatal overdose if they have a relapse and use at their previous high levels.
The only solution to the OxyContin addiction problem of Ontario is to enable people with addiction to completely recover, and become addiction free. This is very difficult to achieve by using traditional drug rehab treatments.
The clue to a solution to the OxyContin Addiction Problem of Ontario is to be found in the content of the Police Council report which states:
“prescribing physicians —- are restricted to prescribing drugs (such as OxyContin) that are covered under a patient’s extended health care/drug plan as other therapeutic non-narcotic options are not covered.”
Despite not being publicly funded, Narconon addiction recovery centers provide the therapeutic, non-narcotic option for complete OxyContin addiction recovery that Ontario needs today.
Narconon means NARCOtics-NON.
Narconon alcohol and drug addiction recovery program provides effective, 100% drug-free detox.
Narconon Trois-Rivières also provides an 8 step detoxification and rehabilitation program – an effective, comprehensive, residential drug rehab treatment program that achieves full addiction recovery.
For more information about the OxyContin addiction Treatment program of Narconon Trois-Rivières, call 1-877-782-7409.
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