A unique opiate addiction treatment program, offering ‘rapid detox’, is in the works at a hospital in southern Arizona. An article by Mark Cowling, Editor of the Florence Reminder Blade Tribune, <click here> relates that Israeli Dr. Andre Waismann has stuck a deal with Florence Community Healthcare and is planning to start working with patients within a few weeks. According to the report, Waismann’s approach involves a hospitalization period of 36 hours during which the patient is treated with various medications, leading to having the patient go through withdrawal during a period of sleep. After the procedure the patient is sent home ‘without dependency’ and without having to use ‘replacement opiates’. The cost for the program, at the outset, is expected to be around $17,000.
Waismann, who likes to use the term ‘dependency’ instead of ‘addiction’, criticizes the American treatment methods, saying “all these concepts are wrong.” He also says the U.S. ‘War on Drugs’ doesn’t work because it fights the patients, not the illness’. Dr. Waismann’s personal involvement appears to be a high point of the Arizona program. At least one other medical organization, in California, is already offering services following the ‘Waismann Method’.
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Is this medication safe for patients? My brother is a drug addict and we are planning to bring him into medication. I am quite hesitant about rapid detox because as what I have read from this site http://www.arizonarapiddetox.com/understand-arizona-rapid-detox/, it is dangerous for patients and have some negative effects.
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