Lortab is also known by the chemical name hydrocodone, used as an analgesic, the medication has similar action to codeine and mostly involves the central nervous system and smooth muscles. Though the precise mechanism of action is unknown, it is thought to relate to the opiate receptors of the central nervous system and similar to analgesia the drug produces mood changes, mental fogginess and drowsiness.

Lortab is used to treat and control chronic or severe pain. The medication must be used in a careful and well-controlled manner because of the high risk abuse and lortab addiction. Sometimes a patient can have absolutely no history of drug abuse and once prescribed lortab, can become addicted within a period of several weeks. Some patients begin taking a prescribed dosage and go on to increase the dose of lortab, some people with a severe lortab addiction will hop from doctor to doctor seeking to feed their addiction problem.

By altering the perception of pain at the spinal cord and brain, lortab can induce an opioid analgesia effect in some patients. The side effects of lortab medication also affects a persons 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.

Some people who have a lortab addiction or lortab addiction withdrawal symptoms will exhibit obvious signs and symptoms, but 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 it hard to identify. For people who have chronic pain and do not have adequate pain relief, mood swings are common and mental illness can also mimic lortab addiction.

Many health care providers who are considering dispensing of lortab will look for certain signs that signal a lortab addiction. Such signs of addiction include 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 can be lying and stealing from family or friends, isolating behavior, changes in social circle and habits and unexplained mood swings.

There are also physical symptoms that belly a lortab addiction, however the symptoms are nearly impossible to distinguish from something else. Addiction to the drug is sweeping across the country and permeating the entire population regardless of race, gender, class and socioeconomic factors. Use of lortab results in various side effects in a person building up a tolerance and having to take more and more of the medication to achieve the same effects.

Christian Drug Treatment for Lortab Addiction

Side effects of lortab addiction can be treated in any number of ways and the options for treatment 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 love is seeking help for lortab addiction, remember there is help available from professional and reliable Christian drug rehab and alcohol treatment center. Please contact the Transformation Treatment Center admissions office today.

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