If you suffer from heroin addiction, a medical detox program trained in the nuances of heroin detox is the first step toward a better life. Taking that step can be extremely difficult until you realize you’re not taking it alone. During the detox and subsequent residential treatment process, clients benefit from supportive staff members, medical experts, therapeutic counselors, and peers both in early recovery and long-term recovery. In our heroin addiction detox services, this team provides medical and clinical support each step of the way.

Why Medical Heroin Detox Is Important

A man in heroin detox

Medical heroin detox is crucial for safe detox and helps individuals move toward hope, health, and healing. Heroin’s withdrawal symptoms can be so uncomfortable that many relapse. Santé Center for Healing’s medical detox reduces relapse risk and ensures comfort and safety during withdrawal.

Our professional detox program offers peace of mind. Santé’s medical team can help clients manage early heroin abstinence symptoms. These compassionate professionals reduce withdrawal symptoms, monitor vitals, perform assessments, and provide general medical care.

Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) uses FDA-approved medications with counseling and behavioral therapies for a comprehensive approach to treating substance use disorders. MAT mainly treats opioid addiction, including heroin and prescription pain relievers, but also addresses alcohol addiction. Santé’s MAT medications are FDA-approved, and our customized treatment plans are clinically driven, medically informed, and tailored to each individual’s needs.

Signs of Heroin Withdrawal

Struggling with heroin dependence means significant withdrawal symptoms when attempting abstinence. Because the body has grown accustomed to having the drug in your system, it feels as though it cannot function without heroin.

Wanting to avoid these feelings of sickness, many people never quit heroin and stay captive within the life-threatening cycle of abuse. Others avoid quitting for as long as possible, waiting on some unidentified external consequence to be bad enough to prompt change. Equally impactful can be the paralyzing shame; this is not what anybody wanted for their life.

Withdrawal symptoms depend on a number of factors, such as the amount used, potency, frequency, and consumption method.

Heroin withdrawal symptoms include:

  • Mental and emotional responses, such as agitation, depression, and anxiety
  • Digestion issues, like abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea
  • Muscle aches
  • Sleeplessness
  • Sweating
  • Excessive yawning
  • Dilated pupils

It’s better to experience and address these in a medical detox level of care like that which Santé Center for Healing offers. Our medical team can help clients cope with the symptoms of early drug abstinence. Medications may be necessary to decrease symptom severity and the risk for complications.  

What Should You Expect from Heroin Detox?

A professional heroin detox program keeps clients comfortable, addresses physical and psychological complications, and minimizes relapse. Trained medical staff can provide medications for troublesome symptoms. In medical detox, there’s no worry about secondary addictions, as the staff controls these medications.

Detox is just the first step toward recovery. Lasting recovery requires active participation in addiction treatment. Quality treatment involves therapies that uncover why individuals began using drugs and provides coping skills to prevent returning to heroin abuse.

The most common types of addiction treatment therapy are behavioral therapies. These sessions usually include residential treatment or intensive outpatient including group therapy with peers in addiction, family therapy, individual therapy, and educational sessions for relapse prevention.

Unless addiction is properly treated, the cycle of use, quitting, and relapse will continue. If individuals undergo heroin detox without rehab, relapse is imminent. Each use of heroin is life-threatening. Santé Center for Healing’s heroin addiction treatment program transitions naturally from detox to residential care, helping clients understand why they started using and explore their life’s possibilities in long-term recovery.

Choose Santé for Your Heroin Addiction Treatment

Santé Center for Healing in Argyle, Texas, offers individuals and their families a long-term, clinical recovery continuum of care spanning more acute medical and clinical needs of detox to less acute therapeutic transitions or addiction treatment services.

Often Santé’s first level of programming for our clients, our on-site medical detox is staffed by Santé’s medical team of psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, certified addiction registered nurses, and 24-hour nursing. They are trained in helping patients cope with the symptoms of early alcohol or drug abstinence. Santé’s medical experts understand how withdrawal works and why it’s so dangerous when individuals think they can do it alone. Without medical assistance and oversight, the symptoms are unpleasant and could even be life threatening.

Santé’s compassionate professionals help to reduce withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, aches and pains, cold sweats, cravings, insomnia, and restlessness. The medical team monitors vitals, performs withdrawal assessments, and provides general medical care. Medications may be necessary to decrease symptom severity and the risk for complications.

Santé Center for Healing’s Levels of Care include:

  • Medical Detox
  • Residential
  • Intensive Outpatient
  • Transitional Living
  • Family Programming
  • Individual Therapy and Medication Management
  • Intensive Workshops
  • Life-Long Alumni Support

In all levels of care:

  • An individualized treatment plan is developed and evolves
  • Progress milestones are gauged by individual goals achieved (not merely in days in care)
  • Services are received in an intimate, therapeutic, serene and supportive environment
  • Families receive necessary education and empowerment for the life-affirming possibilities found in long-term recovery

These are critical ingredients in the recovery process which increase the likelihood that gains made during residential treatment are reinforced and sustained for life-long recovery.

Santé Center for Healing treats:

  • Substance Use Disorder
  • Mental Health/Dual Diagnosis
  • Trauma
  • Problematic Sexual Behavior
  • Disordered Eating
  • Other compulsive behaviors

And we have a 25-year specialty of helping licensed professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, therapists, lawyers, and more) find recovery and achieve long-term recovery.

Get the Help You Need Today From Santé Center For Healing

If you or someone you love are struggling with heroin addiction or other mental health and addiction problems, it’s important that interested individuals and family members speak to a qualified clinician—like Santé’s Masters level Intake and Admissions Counselors—rather than a call center operator. Their goal is to help individuals and families identify the next best steps.

Call us today at 866.238.3154 or use our online contact form and start to see for yourself why Santé is the best choice for effective, client-centered treatment and quality care to achieve long-term recovery from heroin and other drugs.