Treatments for Pain Killer Addiction

There are a number of effective treatment options to treat pain killer addiction to prescription opioids and to help manage the sometimes severe withdrawal symptoms that can accompany sudden cessation of pain killer or drug use.

These options are drawn from long-time experience and other clinical research from studying and treating other types of drugs and even heroin addiction.

Treatment options include: medications, such as methadone and LAAM (levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol), and behavioral counseling.

Usually, the patient is medically detoxified before any treatment approach is begun.

Although detoxification in and of itself is not a treatment for pain killer addiction, it can help relieve withdrawal symptoms while the patient adjusts to being free of pain killers or other prescription drugs.

Once the patient has completed detoxification, the treatment provider must then work with the patient to determine which course of treatment would be best for the patient.