All of the description of the show, the producers got it absolutely correct when details that "prescription meds are fast becoming the drug of choice for involving young Americans, who mistakenly believe them to be safer than street drugs."

The show covers the plight of two young adults who are "fighting to free themselves from check your grip of these potentially lethal substances", both addicted to forms of narcotic painkillers that have thousands of people trapped by prescription drug addiction, and are one of several most abused drugs your country.

Dana, a 20-year-old from New Jersey who succumbed to prescription drug addiction as a teenager, began using drugs at the chronological age of 12, and by 17 had concluded on her drug of choice, Roxicodone, a generically-made form belonging to the narcotic painkiller oxycodone. Roxicodone is made to have an immediate release for rapid pain relief.

Evan, another 20-year-old, is an audio engineering student from Northern California. Evan experimented with drinking and drugs as a teenager until he tried the narcotic painkiller OxyContin, and immediately made it his drug of preference. OxyContin is a brand name name for a time-release painkiller fabricated from oxycodone.

Dana has held its place in and out of rehab 15 times, and is not able to attend school or hold a job role. In the show, ads that she turns to cleaning to take her mind away from using Roxicodone as many minutes as she can. Is actually struggling to lodge at the halfway house in Florida where her parents have sent her for treatment. But she betrays family and friends, and ultimately herself, trying to emerge from her prescription drug addiction.

Evan has attended hospitals in the past, and has been prescribed other drugs to help control his addiction. But he in order to haunted from your feeling of escape and luxury that the drug brings dad. He seems determined to stay clean, when his girlfriend in order to visit, he is put on the ultimate test, because she is also an OxyContin enthusiast. Evan's prescription drug abuse pervades every of his life while he struggles to regain a drug-free life-time.

Roxicodone, OxyContin, and dozens more an electric of oxycodone and hydrocodone have caused overdose deaths or injuries among thousands of young women and men. OxyContin is routinely abused by crushing the pills to defeat the time-release mechanism, and snorted like heroin or cocaine for instant effect. But oxycodone any kind of form is extremely addictive, as well as so widely abused in some regions it surpasses heroin, morphine along with street drugs in buzz. In the Appalachian regions of your south-east, it's got been recognized for years as "hillbilly heroin".

Before a narcotic addict can begin rehabilitation, he or she must spend some time in detoxification, called "detox", during which the body tries to overcome the physical aspects of the narcotic deaths addiction. Unless the detox is done at a suitable medical detox facility, in order to often so painful that many don't complete it but return making use of their use of medicine. Once using that painful and often dangerous withdrawal period, rehab can to be able to address the deeper, personal reasons for that addiction.

The only thing promotional efforts. like to buy seen as show was some understanding of the hallmarks of detox protocols designed just for someone's unique DNA and metabolism, which greatly lessen ill outcomes of detox. Called medical drug detox, such programs include 24/7 medical supervision improve patient safety and data retrieval.