Hospital Inpatient Detoxification - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Mercedes, TX.

Detoxification is the first stage of getting off of drugs, and you could make the decision to go through detoxification in a hospital inpatient facility for a few reasons. Hospital inpatient detoxification in Mercedes provides medically supervised detoxification services, which is administered with the assistance of nurses and doctors who can make detoxification more comfortable, using prescription medications to ease symptoms and even make detox safer. An individual quitting alcohol for example might need particular medications during detox to prevent seizures that are common with serious alcohol withdrawal. An individual who is going through heroin or prescription opioid withdrawal might choose to receive medically supervised detox in a hospital inpatient facility, where medications are utilized to ease them through a very discomforting (but usually not life threatening) form of withdrawal. Patients in a hospital inpatient detoxification facility stay at the facility until the symptoms of withdrawal have subsided. This may be anywhere from 1 to 2 weeks depending on what drug they are detoxing from and their overall health.

For someone who has a history with substance abuse issues for some time, there would ideally be a quick and smooth transition from a hospital inpatient detoxification facility to a drug and/or alcohol rehabilitation program to treat their addiction because detox is not actual treatment in itself.

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