Hydrocodone Addiction vs. Hydrocodone Dependency

Hydrocodone addiction results from a prolonged, untreated drug dependency that spirals out of control.

Addiction to opiate painkillers like Hydrocodone does not happen overnight.

Hydrocodone addiction is the consequence of fostering a prescription drug dependency that has not been carefully treated. Dependent patients do not intentionally choose to become addicted to Hydrocodone. Hydrocodone dependency can be traced to self-medication due to:

• Physical pain
• Emotional pain (including misdiagnosed depression, anxiety or trauma)
• Avoidance of withdrawal syndrome.

Hydrocodone patients try to alleviate discomfort and pain through over-medication, but instead trigger a physical dependency. Before counseling and medical care can effect lasting change, the physical drug dependency must be treated and the effects of opiate anesthesia removed.

Today’s advanced medical technology allows us to reverse a physical Hydrocodone dependency. We rely on a scientific understanding of opiate dependence so that patients no longer need to turn to painful, ineffective detox or rehab methods.  Medically induced rapid detoxification, while the patient is under anesthesia, reverses Hydrocodone addiction and dependency.

Learn more about Hydrocodone Detox.

Hydrocodone Addiction and Rapid Detox

The Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification Under Anesthesia has founded the procedure best known as rapid detox, which alone bears the distinction of being:

• Safe
• Humane
• and Non-judgmental.

Over this past decade, our Board Certified anesthesiologists and pain specialists, Dr. Bernstein and Dr. Lowenstein, have successfully reversed opiate dependence—including Hydrocodone addiction—in thousands of patients worldwide. The Waismann doctors perform the rapid detox procedure in a safe, discreet intensive care unit of a full-service, fully accredited hospital.

Everyone on our medical staff treats each patient in a caring, personal, and professional manner.  

From our professional perspective, opiate dependency is a medical disorder that requires a medical procedure to prevent Hydrocodone addiction and overdose. 

If untreated, dependency demands more and more opiate to achieve the same pain-relief effect or to deter the agony of withdrawal due to a broken supply.

Learn more about Hydrocodone withdrawal (some typical symptoms below):

Hydrocodone Addiction and the Waismann Method

Many Hydrocodone dependent patients come to us from around the world when they realize their progressive self-medication has reached disturbing levels. Many patients have tried stopping themselves or have experienced failed attempts at traditional drug treatment programs, much to their discouragement.

Today’s modern anesthetic science and accelerated rapid detoxification gives courage to Waismann patients to live free of all opiate and painkiller use.

The Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification provides humane treatment to patients who have a physical Hydrocodone dependency or Hydrocodone addiction.