Medical detox has been around for as far back as the 1990s’. Though almost like a rehab, detox is quite different from rehabilitation in a lot of senses.
For instance, a rehabilitation center and the activities carried out therein are different from everything about a medical detox center. While I won’t be talking about the contrast between the two, in this post, I will share with you everything you need to know about medical detox. Let’s get started below.
What Is Medical Detox?
Medical detox is the creation of an encouraging environment for the individual who is on the journey to free the body from its attachment to chemical substances or any other substances introduced to the body out of addiction. This may be weeds, drugs, alcohol, steroids, or whatever the case may be in the individual’s situation. The environment created not only helps the individual to concentrate on the journey undertaken but it also provides experts who, though do not offer serious therapy sessions of any kind to the individual, but become assistants in the time of detox symptoms.
Does Detox Treat Addiction?
Well…not in the real sense. Here’s what I mean. Detox does not directly help the individual’s body to be free from reliance on or addiction to the assimilation of chemical substances. What it does do is provide the best environment that will aid a faster development on the individual’s venture to be free. So, it makes sense to say that on the way to medical detox, the victim does the walking and put in all the efforts required to detoxify the body.
How Long Does Medical Detox Take?
The time duration for the process varies from one individual to another. Rather than establishing a time or setting a time in stone that it takes, I will rather discuss some of the factors that can affect how long the process takes. The first factor, and I don’t mean that technically, that determines the process duration is the kind of substance the individual is trying to free the body from.
For instance, a person who is trying to be free from addiction to alcohol can get there faster than the person who is trying to be free from weed or something more addictive than alcohol. Another factor is for how long one has been relying on that substance. Here’s what I mean. If you’ve been relying on alcohol for 2 years, it will take longer for you to be free from that substance compared to the person who just started relying on the same substance. One more determinant factor is the assistance from the medical personel and how encouraging the environment is.
Does Medical Detox Have Symptoms?
During the period of medical detox, one is liable to experience some symptoms which are the body’s reactions to the withdrawal from the substance one is trying to be free from. Some of theses symptoms include;
- Sweating
- Insomenia
- Hallucination
- Fatigue
- Shaking
- Irregular fatigue
- And so on…
