If you disregard marijuana, prescription drugs are the second most commonly abused drug, ahead of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs. According to the National Institute of Health close to twenty percent of people in the US have used prescription drugs for non-medical recreational use. Prescription drugs are such a large portion of the drugs abused nowadays that drug rehab centers have special programs for prescription drug detox.

In fact of the number of people coming to centers for executive detox, prescription drug abuse is second only to alcohol. Narcotic painkillers like Oxy Contin or Vicodin, sedatives and tranquilizers like Xanax or Valium, and stimulants like Dexedrine, Adderall or Ritalin are readily available.

In an attempt to improve the image that detoxification has gotten, holistic detox programs for alcohol and drug rehab offer a spa-like atmosphere and use various mind,body, and spirit therapies drawn from Western and non-Western sources, including to a large degree nutritional therapy. Nutritional therapists believe that essential nutrients are many times missing from the body chemistry because of cultural, diet, and lifestyle choices.

Upon there returning these essential nutrients to the body, healing of all types speeds up faster than through normal practices. Some techniques used in nutritional therapy include dietary regulation and restriction; vitamin, mineral, and amino acid drips; and in extreme cases an intravenous nutrition diet is established. Nutritional therapy is very effective in restoring health when used with a holistic approach to rehabilitation.

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