Hospital Inpatient Detoxification - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Prosperity, PA.

Detoxification is the first stage of quitting drugs and alcohol, and you might choose to go through detox in a hospital inpatient detox center for a few reasons. Hospital inpatient detoxification in Prosperity provides medical detoxification services, which is conducted with the help of nurses and doctors who can make detox easier and more comfortable, utilizing medications to ease symptoms and make detox safer. A person detoxing from alcohol for example might need certain medications during detox to prevent seizures that commonly occur with serious alcohol withdrawal. A person who is suffering with heroin or prescription opioid withdrawal might choose to receive medical detox in a hospital inpatient facility, where medications are used to ease them through a very miserable (but usually not life threatening) type of withdrawal. People in a hospital inpatient detox facility stay at the facility until the withdrawal symptoms have subsided. This may be anywhere from 5 days to 2 weeks depending on what type of substance they are detoxing from and their overall physical and mental health.

For someone who has been struggling with substance abuse issues for some time, the recommendation would be an immediate and smooth transition from a hospital inpatient detox facility to a drug rehab facility to work on their addiction due to the fact that detox is not treatment in itself.

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