Taking Lortab On your Own Can Lead to Lortab Addiction

What is Lortab?

Lortab, known by the chemical name hydrocodone, is used as a painkiller with effects similar to codeine. Since Lortab is a medication used to treat and control chronic or severe pain, it must be used in a careful and well-controlled manner because of its high risk of abuse. Addiction to this drug is sweeping across our country’s population regardless of race, gender, class and socioeconomic factors.

Adverse Effects of Lortab

Lortab causes mood changes, mental fogginess and drowsiness. It affects the central nervous system and smooth muscles like the stomach, intestines, blood vessels and the bladder. Lortab alters the perception of pain and the reaction to pain at the spinal cord and brain, which induces an opioid analgesia effect in some patients. Lortab also affects a person’s emotional response to pain and can have a stimulatory effect because it blocks inhibitions. With long-term Lortab abuse, a user can experience irreparable harm to the function of the nervous system.

Lortab Addiction

Often, a patient will have absolutely no history of drug abuse yet once prescribed Lortab he/she will become addicted within a period of just several weeks. Some patients begin taking a prescribed dosage and go on to increase the dose of Lortab. People with a severe Lortab addiction will hop from doctor to doctor seeking to feed their addiction problem.

Some people who have a Lortab addiction will exhibit obvious withdrawal symptoms, while others who have been taking the medication for a long period of time will go to great lengths to hide the physical signs and symptoms of addiction, making abuse more difficult to identify. Use of Lortab results in a person building up a tolerance and having to take more and more of the medication to achieve the same effects.

Many health care providers will look for certain signs of a Lortab addiction; such as, rapidly going through a prescription, doctor “hopping” to get more medication, repeated reports of medication being lost or stolen, and requesting Lortab by name. Other signs of a Lortab addiction may include lying and stealing from family or friends, antisocial or isolating behavior, unexplained mood swings, and changes in relationships, friendships, and habits.

Christian Drug Treatment for Lortab Addiction

The options for treatment for Lortab addiction should be discussed with a medical professional and Lortab rehabilitation experts. While the Lortab addiction withdrawal symptoms are not life-threatening, detoxification from the drug can be very difficult and uncomfortable.
If you or someone you care about is seeking help for Lortab addiction, remember there is help available from a professional and reliable Christian drug treatment center. Please contact Transformations Treatment Center’s addiction specialists today.

Transformation Treatment Center, a leading Christian drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, also offers treatments for Opiate, GHB, Darvocet, Codeine, Ritalin, Rohypnol, and other addiction problems.