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Many people have taken the controversial rapid detox route for addiction to alcohol, heroin, OxyContin and other opiates. Not only is a rapid detox not rapid at all, recovery from the procedure can take weeks or months, it is also dangerous – which is why the procedure is controversial. To make matters worse, Garden Grove Hospital has just been fined $25,000 for endangering patient safety by using an anti-nausea drug called Droperidol during a rapid detox procedure. According to California regulators, the hospital used the drug in a manner “likely to cause serious injury or death to patients” - one more reason to go through a medically supervised OxyContin detox, or one appropriate for whatever drug you’re using.

Droperidol can cause serious heart irregularities and even death, according to the FDA, and it is approved only as a last resort and only with cardiac monitoring before and after treatment. At Garden Grove, neither the pharmacy or nursing staff said they knew about the restrictions on using the drug, and they never monitored patients’ heart rhythms. One patient received three doses over two days with no cardiac monitoring whatever.

There are safe ways to detox from drugs. Rapid detox is not one of them. If you or someone you care about is suffering from OxyContin addiction, addiction to alcohol or any other drug, choose a safe OxyContin detox that doesn’t involve such risks. Addiction is bad enough, don’t risk the person’s life further by putting them through a detox program that uses drugs as dangerous, or more so, than the drug to which they’re addicted.

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