Posted by Tony Bylsma on January 27, 2010 under FAQs for Detox Rehab |
The word detox is from the word detoxify or, detoxification, but it has been used in so many different ways by so many different people that it now means almost everything and nothing at the same time. So let’s go back to the origins and look at detoxification.
According to Wikipedia, “Detoxification, or detox for short is the removal of toxic substances from the body.”
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on January 25, 2010 under FAQs for Detox Rehab |
Rehabilitation: to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like, as through therapy and education.
From Latin roots, the word means, really, to make fit again.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on January 24, 2010 under FAQs for Detox Rehab |
Again, we have to know what we’re talking about when we say “detox”.
To simply get through the initial withdrawal period of treatment, in other words, going through the reactions that come from ceasing to use an addictive drug, can be as short as 3 days or as long as many weeks. But that’s just withdrawal.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on January 23, 2010 under FAQs for Detox Rehab |
Every time I see an answer to this question, I have to laugh.
Usually the answer is something like, “Our centers take 28 days!” or, Nobody knows for sure how long this takes, but at our rehab facility…blah blah
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on January 21, 2010 under FAQs for Detox Rehab |
This question of medical-detox is a questions that I’ve heard a thousand times. The answer is no simpler than the whole phenomenon of addiction.
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