Going through detox program for drug and alcohol addiction can be extremely painful. A vast majority of individuals who attempt body detoxification by themselves end up giving up because they cannot endure the withdrawal symptoms. Detoxification is essentially a process of cleansing your system from the chemical substances that make you addict. The symptoms that follow have to do with your body having a panic attack at not having the chemicals that help it cope. The effects produce real pain and a real danger to the addict's health, so despite what some people might say about conditioning your mind to overlook the symptoms, it can be damaging to go through a detoxification program without an addiction specialist. The drug rehab center usually have some medical staff at hand to respond to medical issues that come up during the detoxification process.

When a person is believed to be addicted it means that his brain or neurological path ways have gotten used to having certain chemicals to be able to produce "dopamine", the feel good hormone that should be produced naturally by the brain. The brain is then led to catalogue this experience as a reward. The cravings produce dopamine naturally.

Withdrawal symptoms aren't the same for every sort of drug. Getting off some drugs like opiates and benzodiazepines is tougher.

Going cold turkey with some drugs like sedatives can result in nausea, vomiting, debilitating headaches, sleeplessness, depression and even hallucinations. people going off opiates should expect worse symptoms like seizures and heart problems. People have been known to die from drug detoxification induced seizures. As noble as getting off drugs on your own might appear, it might be unsafe. It can be done and it has been done but results can vary, what works for one might not work for others. It's always crucial to keep that in mind when trying to find information about anything to do with detox centers. Assuming that, the worst-case scenarios of detoxification only happen with the hard drugs.

Detox can be difficult and life-threatening for anyone with a prolonged history of substance abuse. It might take some time for someone undergoing a detox program to start feeling withdrawal symptoms. The initial waves of nausea and pain might come in less than twelve hours for some individuals while others would actually start feeling sick and tired before those 12 hours lapse just from sheer anticipation. Withdrawal symptoms can go on for days and leave one feeling tired for weeks thereafter. Getting through those first few hours and first few days can be difficult, one can best deal with the symptoms in a medical environment. It is only after detoxing that the longer process of treatment should begin.