Genetics can also factor. If you decide to quit cold turkey, the process might be more challenging than if you enter a detox treatment program. Addiction is triggered by the dopamine chemical in your brain, which reinforces cravings. When you grow accustomed to a pleasurable activity, such as a hobby or physical preoccupation, it releases that dopamine. Those activities become habits because you want to repeat those sensations over and over again.
You could take a drug for recreational purposes and gradually find yourself using the substance with greater frequency. After a certain point, the habit could seem physically binding. In times of stress, you might reach for the drug to recreate that same sense of leisurely euphoria that you initially felt at a party.
As your drug use increases, the problems in your personal life finances, relationships, health could rapidly escalate in tandem with addiction. Opiate-based prescription drugs can also become addictive. A lot of people who suffer from chronic pain often became addicted to prescription pain relievers. Some people start on certain drugs because the initial feeling inspires them.
At first, an opiate might seem helpful if it stirs your energy and productivity. This is often true with musicians, producers and other people who spend long months on the road and many late nights in the studio.
Opiate-drug abuse is self-perpetuating because your body will gradually develop a tolerance for opioids. The high that you felt when you first took a hit will only repeat itself so many times before it loses its effect.
From there, you might take stronger doses just to recreate that sensation. Once you try to pull yourself back from the brink, the pains of opiate withdrawal are often just as bad, if not worse, than the ups and downs of drug abuse.
Withdrawal symptoms can be mentally trying and psychically painful. As you cope with withdrawal symptoms, the challenges associated with this stage of recovery can tear at your resolve and will power. Remember, the inevitable consequences of a relapse could be far worse than any withdrawal symptoms. People who fatally overdose often do so during moments of temptation after a long withdrawal.
Agitation is one of the most common withdrawal symptoms experienced by recovering opiate users. As you get through the first week or two without the drug in question, you might get irritable at the most benign things. Opioids often have a calming effect because they depress the nervous system. Part of opiate withdrawal is learning how to cope with mood swings without nerve depressants. Another common withdrawal symptom during the early stages of recovery is anxiety.
Drugs provide a high that addicts often use to escape from stress. Once you resolve to come clean, you must commit to healthier, drug-free ways to cope with difficulties. It can be scary at first and a lot of recovering addicts relapse for this very reason. It takes tremendous strength and will power to overcome this stage.
Muscle aches are common among people who cope with withdrawal symptoms. Many people have trouble sleeping during the first few weeks of opiate withdrawal.
If you stop taking drugs cold turkey after a lengthy dependency, your mind and body must readjust to a new regimen. Now that your body is living without the sedative effects of depressant drugs, withdrawal symptoms like anxiety, agitation and depression could easily keep you up at night.
This could be compounded by mood swings and feelings of anger and anxiety as your mind and body adjust to healthier, opiate-free alternative treatments. Cravings are common during phase two of the opioid withdrawal process.
Opiate abusers often lose weight due to the depressing effects of certain drugs. Drugs can also have side effects like nausea, constipation, vomiting and diarrhea, none of which are appetizing.
It may be difficult wearing clothes in the morning and many addicts find that while showers and baths are a good way of relieving this feeling, the act of dressing into new clothes afterwards can make their skin crawl.
Day two of the opiate withdrawal timeline will likely end with some trouble sleeping. You may feel sluggish and fatigued all day, but you will still struggle for sleep. This is when the withdrawal symptoms peak. They are the most uncomfortable days in the opiate and opioid withdrawal timeline.
The symptoms of day 2 get worse and hit a peak. Along with the tiredness, insomnia and malaise come hot and cold flushes, restless legs syndrome, severe diarrhea, stomach pains. One of the other, barely noted symptoms of opiate withdrawal is the libido. It goes through the roof at this point, especially for men. But at the same time they also suffer from premature ejaculation and some addicts report sexual stimulation and even ejaculation just as the mere touch of their genital area.
At this point the acute withdrawals are over. The feelings of being uncomfortable in your own skin may still present from time to time and you will likely suffer from sleep disturbances as well.
However, this period is mainly associated with strong cravings and anhedonia, which is a state of not being able to derive pleasure from things that you used to enjoy. Many addicts feel that the uncomfortable feeling associated with the previous days of the opiate and opioid withdrawal timeline helped to keep them occupied and to take their mind off the drug.
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Thanks for staying until the end. You rock! Okay, have a great one. Matt teaches people how to get off opioids strategically and as comfortably as possible. He quit opioids 9 years ago then became a counselor at an Opioid Treatment Program. Check out his Virtual Opioid Recovery Course to learn everything you need to quit opioids holistically.
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