Find Support For Codeine Addiction

Codeine is a safe to use, a prescription opiate drug, endorsed to relieve pain and discomfort. As an accredited drug, through sensible and advised consumption, it’s highly effective, down to the comfort and relief that it offers. However, as an abused drug, it’s very addictive, dangerous and a driver of habitual behaviours.

Developed through generic causations, codeine addiction can amount to any individual who associates its presence with indefinite pain relief. While intentions are usually for the good through the consumption of codeine, where the mix of pain and reward are encountered, addiction development is very likely.

Its role as a pain suppressant will induce the positive reinforcement system, offering rewarding feelings and responses. While this can help to reduce the impacts of pre-existing health issues and their symptoms, habitual behaviour can develop, which turns codeine from a safe drug to a toxic one.

From organ damage to cognitive impairment and mental health symptoms, codeine addiction can severely revert health, devaluing initial use. If you’re encountering the signs of addiction, we encourage you to consider detoxification, followed by addiction recovery help. Offered here at Asana Lodge, we can help you work through codeine addiction treatment & rehab steps to avoid long-term damages, manage your pain and revert your wellbeing.

Prescription drug addiction is just as invasive and aggressive as illicit drug abuse. Understand this before self-medicating and managing pain through codeine misuse.

How addictive is codeine?

At face value, codeine is branded as safe, as it’s prescribed by medical professionals. When comparing its effects to stronger, harder substances, it’s understandable at the bottom of the list when aiming for standout highs. However, down to how codeine engages with the central nervous and internal reward systems, codeine can be addictive if misused.

It is very important to remember that prescription drug addiction is a probable outcome when substances are abused beyond recommendations. Many individuals will unknowingly be bypassing such recommendations, with the aim to encounter the suppressing and pain-relieving tendencies of codeine. Yet by doing so, they will be feeding a habit, which will develop into an addiction if enabled.

Such associations will not rank codeine as addictive for every user. Consumption levels, usage guidelines, decisions and internal susceptibilities will all impact how addictive codeine stands. Yet for those who do abuse guidelines, make the decision to self-medicate, consume codeine consistently, or look for illegal counterparts, codeine can be aggressively adopted and depended on.

Prescription drug addictions will require detoxification and treatment steps, even if drugs are perceived as harmless. This is down to the toxicity and adjustments that they make, like many other substances, ingraining addiction diagnoses. In the event of misuse, codeine addiction treatment & rehab steps should be taken seriously.

 

Signs of codeine addiction

The most common way to gauge a prescription drug addiction will be through changes in behaviour, consumption levels and the effects of codeine. However, there will also be some evidential changes on physical and psychological levels which can indicate that codeine consumption is becoming addictive.

Signs of a codeine addiction include:

  • Feelings of anxiety without exposure to codeine
  • Physical withdrawal symptoms whilst working through the addiction cycle
  • Changes in consumption levels, where tolerance to codeine has built up
  • General health issues, focusing on organ functionality and health
  • The development of mental health issues, down to the changes caused through the central nervous system
  • Making sacrifices to encounter codeine exposure
  • Consuming codeine with knowledge of consequences
  • Withdrawing from everyday responsibilities, hobbies, and engagements
  • Association codeine with necessary pain relief
  • Experiencing the rebound effect of greater pain
  • Bypassing prescription guidelines without considering the risks

All of the above indicate a codeine addiction, which can carry the common dangers of addiction. In tandem with general consequences, significant worries are placed on wellbeing, down to the damage that long-term codeine exposure can incur.

As consumption will continue without intervention, taking action will be encouraged through codeine addiction treatment & rehab steps.

 

The necessity of a medical codeine detox

A codeine detox will be necessary for every user who’s developed an addiction, in order to influence withdrawal. Without this, codeine addiction effects can be rife, continuing to control the body and the status of health.

Medical detox will also be encouraged, as this will secure safety throughout the withdrawal phase, to ensure that wellbeing can be maintained, while codeine levels are reduced. For those with severe pain disorders, please be reassured that you will have management and comfort through a medically assisted detox.

The withdrawal phase will usually last around 7-14 days, where clear withdrawal symptoms will display. Physical and psychological symptoms are expected down to how ingrained codeine can become. With professional support via a private drug and alcohol rehab clinic, symptoms will be managed, along with balancing health and progress.

Through residential addiction treatment programmes, offered here at Asana Lodge, the detoxification process can be efficient and effective.

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Codeine addiction treatment and rehab services at Asana Lodge

Post-detox, codeine addiction treatment & rehab steps will need to be completed to recover psychologically. Holistic healing is aimed for through prescription drug addiction recovery, to ensure that all-around healing can be experienced, safely and sustainably.

Due to the association of codeine with the reward of pain relief, a disassociation process will need to take place, which will be aimed at through therapeutic addiction treatment services. Cognitive behavioural therapy, group therapy, motivational therapy, family therapy, stress management and exposure therapy will be best suited through drug addiction recovery.

Codeine addiction help will also focus on your wellbeing and lifestyle choices, relapse prevention planning and aftercare services. All will help to ingrain new habits and outlooks, helping to promote healthy pain management, and the discreditation of codeine exposure.

By healing the mind through residential addiction treatment, internal adjustments can be made to reflect outwardly. This is the best way to curb cravings and behaviours which influence codeine abuse.

Justifiably, codeine is a safe drug to consume through recommendations. Yet once such recommendations have been bypassed, it is addictive, requiring exposure to addiction treatment & rehab services.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to access Codeine addiction treatment and rehab

Accessing treatment and rehab steps is possible here at Asana Lodge. Through our admissions process, you can access the care, support, and treatment you require through the standards of private drug and alcohol rehab.

What happens after Codeine addiction treatment and rehab?

Codeine addiction treatment will stand as the foundation of withdrawal. Here’s where you’ll learn how to cope without drug abuse. After treatment, you will test your skills to ensure that sobriety can be sustained. Support will be available to help you through post-rehab steps, including relapse prevention and aftercare.

What are the withdrawal symptoms of Codeine?

Withdrawal symptoms are personal. However, withdrawal symptoms will usually include insomnia, fever, stomach pains, cravings, depression, dehydration, and muscle aches. They can range from mild to severe depending on withdrawal encounters, which is why a medically assisted detox will be recommended.

Working through withdrawal is possible, to reap the benefits of codeine addiction recovery.

To access quality codeine addiction treatment & rehab services, contact our team at Asana Lodge, offering specialist rehabilitation programmes.


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John has travelled extensively around the world, culminating in 19 years’ experience looking at different models. He is the European pioneer of Nad+ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) treatment to Europe in 2010; and recently back from the USA bringing state of the art Virtual Reality Relapse Prevention and stress reduction therapy. his passion extends to other metabolic disturbances and neurodegenerative diseases.

The journey continues, in recent times john has travelled to Russia to study and research into a new therapy photobiomudulation or systemic laser therapy working with Nad+ scientists and the very best of the medical profession in the UK and the USA, together with Nadcell, Bionad Clinics own select Doctors, nurses, dieticians and therapists, Johns’ passion continues to endeavour to bring to the UK and Europe new developments with Nad+ therapy in preventive and restorative medicine and Wellness. In 2017 John Gillen was made a visiting Professor at the John Naisbitt university in Belgrade Serbia.

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Dr Lapa graduated in Medicine in 2000 and since this time has accrued much experience working in the widest range of psychiatric settings with differing illness presentations and backgrounds in inpatient, community and secure settings. This has been aligned to continuation of professional development at postgraduate level in clinical research which has been very closely related to the everyday clinical practice conducted by this practitioner as a NHS and Private Psychiatrist.
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