Cocaine Addiction – A Difficult Addiction
There are several drug addictions which pose a special challenge to drug treatment facilities. Cocaine addiction is a difficult addiction for a person to overcome because cocaine affects the pleasure centers in the brain. After prolonged use, cocaine is required by the body to feel just plain normal, but addicts keep trying for that initial euphoric feeling again. Cocaine is one of the hardest addictions to treat successfully and the relapse rate is high.
Heroin addiction is another extremely difficult addiction to treat successfully. The withdraw symptoms can be extreme when a heroin addict stops being able to use heroin. Detoxification is necessary is most cases. Treatment following detoxification used to primary consist is treating an addict by supplying them with methadone, a heroin substitute which the addict was gradually weaned off of.
While the methadone treatment was successful in treating heroin addiction in some cases, in other cases, the heroin addict traded one addiction for another and methadone addiction became a real problem. The withdraw symptoms from methadone as quite similar to that of heroin and it’s considered just as hard to kick, Methadone does make a good heroin substitute as the effects cast a whole day so it can be administered daily as art of a heroin addiction treatment.
All of these drugs, cocaine, heroin, and methadone present particular challenges to drug treatment professionals.
