i was awake 11 days, detox at rehab with no help. was seeing the shadow people and hearing things
Do the doctors or nurses not become concerned enough to give you a good amount of ambien or benzo's or a shot of morphine or
something to let you get a few hours of good sleep after that long without sleep? Or do they just say here's some trazadone or hydroxyzine that should help you sleep.
I don't think any rehab or detox should force folks off of shit cold turkey. They should all be forced to at least do a quick taper and give you 1 or 2 "in case of emergency" or "when it gets too much for you" doses of whatever you were addicted to or something similar. I mean after 11 days of opiate detox without sleep, they could give you 5mgs of valium and a Tylenol 3 with 30mgs of codeine and you'd probably sleep your ass off.
It seems like going cold turkey would make people romanticize dope or whatever drug their addicted to even more. If I was going cold turkey off heroin and couldn't sleep for that long, I'd be just counting down the hours until I could get out and go do a good shot of dope. Cold turkey doesn't seem like a smart way to go for rehabs or detoxes if they don't want u to relapse.