Safety should be your primary concern when evaluating any detox program.  There are many different techniques of rapid detox and traditional detoxification. The majority of detox centers in America are managed by doctors who have no formal training in cardiac or intensive care medicine. These doctors don't have the expertise needed to prevent the dangerous surge of adrenaline that is produced when detoxing from oxycontin, xanax or alcohol. Incidentally, methadone detox produces a more severe adrenaline surge than oxycontin detox, vidodin detox and xanax detox. 

For years, addiction doctors at nationally recognized treatment centers have accepted as "normal" the painful and dangerous physiological stress response to drug and alcohol withdrawal. Without extensive cardiac/intensive care medical training, these "rehab doctors" wrongly assumed that the stressful withdrawal syndrome could not be prevented.

Nothing is further from the truth! The majority of addiction doctors in America are "recovering alcoholics or addicts," they were taught during their personal detox the false belief that "the more you suffer during detox, the less chance you have of relapsing." This outdated philosophy is not only demoralizing to suffering patients, it places these patients at risk for cardiac and brain health. 

During withdrawal, unchecked surges of adrenaline ( norepinephrine ) can squeeze the coronary and peripheral blood vessels, producing dangerously high blood pressure. It can produce dangerously elevated heart rate as well. Some young, healthy patients have died in Florida jails while detoxing from methadone. These unnecessary deaths were probably caused by cardiac arrhythmias from uncontrolled adrenaline.

Furthermore, recent PET brain scan studies have demonstrated that repeated attempts to detox without controlling surging adrenaline levels (traditional detox) destroy brain nerve cells. This should be no surprise. If excess electricity is demonstrated in arms and legs via tremors, twitches, or muscle spasm, why would we not expect the central nervous system ( brain ) to be in overdrive?

Our medical doctors, Dr. Sponaugle and Dr. Norman, have formal medical training in intensive care medicine, pre-procedure cardiac screening and operating room anesthesiology. They do have expertise in protecting your heart and brain from the physiological stress produced by alcohol and drug withdrawal. Also, you will be admitted to an eight-story medical hospital versus some "house on the beach or in the woods." Our hospital has been ranked in the top 5 percent nationwide for providing the highest quality of care.