Lortab Addiction vs. Lortab Dependency
Lortab addiction follows from an untreated prescription drug dependency.
You did not choose to become an ‘accidental’ Lortab
addict when you started narcotic treatment.
Typically, the analgesic Lortab treats moderate to severe,
and surgical, pain. (More
on Lortab.)
- However, Lortab is very habit-forming under
chronic use.
Your prolonged use of prescription Lortab
for pain relief can lead from medical treatment to prescription
dependency …to
drug addiction. You started Lortab treatment in an attempt
to manage:
- Acute or chronic, surgical or physical pain (including
migraines).
- Unbearable emotional pain, or possibly misdiagnosed
depression.
Your Lortab addiction may surprise you, because dependency
sneaks up gradually under the guise of pain management.
(More
on Lortab
overdose.)
- You do not realize you are developing an opiate
tolerance, when your body requires more Lortab than
before to make the pain go away and stay away.
Untreated Lortab dependency progresses to Lortab
addiction if you do not address health issues
early on. Abuse of any opiate painkiller, although under
prescription, can do the same.
You may actually be trying to treat the pain of withdrawal
symptoms, and not just the pain of your initial physical
condition anymore. (More
on Lortab withdrawal.)
After habituating to a chemical, you will tend to self-medicate
in attempts to achieve:
- Relief through physical elation that
helps you to maintain emotional stability.
- Alleviation of agonizing withdrawal symptoms due
to opiate tolerance.
Like many, you may notice ‘cold turkey’ attempts
and counseling do not resolve your physical dilemma. Proper
medical treatment or psychotherapy can only be effective
after the
physical disorder is treated.
- First, you need to remove opiates from your system.
Lortab Addiction Symptoms
The Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification views
physical dependence and tolerance as separate and distinct
issues from abuse and addiction.
Many patients suffering under Lortab addiction come to
us when their overdosage has reached a fearful level.
- Are you, too, distressed by painful withdrawal
overdose symptoms?
Like our other patients, you may have tried and failed
in attempts at other drug treatment
programs or to wean yourself off. Not wanting
to fall into Lortab addiction, dependent patients come
to Waismann for the same reason:
- To be free of all opiate use.
Signs of habit-forming Lortab addiction due to opiate
withdrawal, which they want to avoid, include (but are
not limited to):
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