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Fentanyl Rehab

La Jolla Recovery provides an experienced, non-judgemental, and withdrawal attention-specific treatment to Fentanyl.

Given Fentanyl‘s current extensive abuse and toxic properties, it needs clinical supervision and staff knowledge on the long-term treatment and medication-assisted process to reduce discomfort, overdose risk, and increased outcomes.

One of the three drugs responsible for creating the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic other than prescription pain pills and heroin is Fentanyl. Understanding its history and current availability and treatment is key to providing the best possible outcome. Welcome to San Diego’s experienced Fentanyl rehab with innovation and results in mind. Whether or not you adhere to the 12 steps, La Jolla Recovery wants to provide a custom program with your unique needs in mind.

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What is Fentanyl and what are treatments for its rehabilitation?

Fentanyl is an opiate, a drug made from the opium poppy. These can include illegal drugs like heroin. Other opiates can be scheduled substances like morphine and codeine. Although there is a medicinal form of fentanyl, it is highly abused and even more so in recent years due to its importation lacing. Its impact on the brain and central nervous system is immense.

How Fentanyl Affects the Brain

The brain has receptors that work with endorphins. Opiates work like endorphins on these receptors but are stronger than what the brain produces. Opiates create a numbing effect, pleasure, relaxation, and even a sense of euphoria but can also slow or even stop breathing. The feeling of joy and numbing might create habits and addictions. Decreased breathing can be dangerous or even lethal.

What is Fentanyl

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is up to 99 times more potent than morphine and up to 60 times more potent than heroin. It is both a prescribed drug and a drug that is at times made and used illegally. Doctor prescribed fentanyl can be given as lozenges that are sucked like cough drops or as patches on the skin.

What are medical uses for Fentanyl?

It is prescribed in the event of chronic, severe pain derived from nerve damage, back injury, cancer, major trauma, surgery, and for people who have developed a tolerance to other opioids and those sometimes for insomnia.
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opiate that is up to 99 times more potent than morphine and up to 60 times more potent than heroin. It is both a prescribed drug and a drug that is at times made and used illegally. When prescribed by a doctor, fentanyl can be by a nurse as tablets that are sucked like cough drops or as patches on the skin.
Medicinal fentanyl comes in several different forms and strengths, including:
transdermal patches (Durogesic® and generic versions)
lozenges/lollipops (Actiq®)
intravenous injection (Sublimaze®).

Illegal Fentanyl and the Black Market

The black market manufactures a synthetic form of fentanyl with heroin-like effects that threaten the wellbeing of millions.
This illegally manufactured fentanyl is sold unlawfully as a powder, dropped onto blotter paper, put in eye droppers and nasal sprays, or made into counterfeit pills that resemble other prescription opioids.

From professional attention to prolonged rehab

Long Term Fentanyl Rehab with Long-Term Treatment with Specialized Detoxification

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Medication Assisted Treatment

Our family recovery addiction treatment program at La Jolla Recovery focuses on the system to secure positive outcomes after rehab. Our family recovery addiction treatment program at La Jolla Recovery focuses on the approach to ensure positive results after healing.
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Dual Diagnosis Attention

It is very common for Fentanyl to be used simultaneously with other drugs, requiring attention to the other substances as well as mental health issues that may arise after cessation.
Fentanyl is also being mixed with cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA. This is especially risky for those who don’t realize that, increasing their risk for overdose death.
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Reducing the Stigma of Fentanyl

Fentanyl is a rising substance abused in the opiate epidemic. Our treatment staff at La Jolla rehab not only understand but practice unconditional positive regard as well as creating a non judgmental environment to thrive from this common drug.
Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are now the most common drugs involved in drug overdose deaths in the United States. In 2017, 58 percent of opioid-related deaths involved fentanyl, compared to almost 15 percent in 2010.
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Your Loved One Might Use Fentanyl without You or Them Knowing

Drug dealers often sell fentanyl as fake oxycodone.
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Clinical Treatment of Fentanyl

The effects of fentanyl usually only lasts from half an hour to less than two. Even with lower doses, extended use can lead to addiction and dependency. At La Jolla Recovery, our clinical staff will attend the physical and mental issues arising from rehabilitation.
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Comprehensive Approach to Fentanyl Abuse

Because Fentanyl is 60 to 99 times more powerful than morphine, we make sure physical, mental and a social model is utilized in long term rehabilitation. Many times, people taking fentanyl ignore how much they are taking or if they’re even taking any at all, resulting in overdoses. Our approach with medication assisted treatment reduces symptoms of Fentanyl withdrawal and increases the chances of positive outcomes.
Roots of the Fentanyl crisis

The Fentanyl Epidemic

The current fentanyl “epidemic” is an escalation of an existing problem.
Doctors are now realizing that many legal opiate-based medications were over-prescribed. Fentanyl may have hit the news with alarming overdoses, but it is part of a more significant opiate crisis in North America and Europe.

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Why is Fentanyl a Threat

Fentanyl Side Effects

Fentanyl is dangerous because many people are using it without a prescription. Many people are using synthetic Fentanyl, which has been produced in the black market as a recreational drug.
This type of use results in quick independence, which can then lead to Fentanyl abuse and overdose. Many users will also mix Fentanyl with other illegal drugs, prescribed medication, and alcohol and increase their chances of health issues or overdose.
Addicts often mix it with heroin or cocaine to induce euphoria.

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