Painkiller addiction can sneak up on just about anyone.  If you suffer from an unexpected illness or injury, you can find yourself taking pain medication in a hurry, and in some cases you may find that the pills make you feel pretty darn good.  Not everyone who uses pain medicine will get addicted, of course, but it does happen, and it continues to happen to unsuspecting people at times.  So the threat of opiate addictions is out there and it is very real and very prevalent.

Now if you get hooked on pills of some sort then you will want to know what your options are for getting clean from them.  You should start by trying to detox yourself at home, unless you happen to be taking strong doses of Methadone for your pain.  Detoxing from most opiates is relatively safe but if you are extremely addicted to high doses of Methadone then the withdrawal process can be dangerous or even fatal.  Other opiates such as heroin will not be fatal but will still be quite uncomfortable if you go through it cold turkey.  Nevertheless, you should still try it yourself, because the alternatives are all quite expensive.

Now say you are trying to beat Hydrocodone addiction and you cannot make it past the withdrawal symptoms on your own.  If this is the case then you should go into a drug rehab and ask for detox help.  They can give you medication that will help you to not suffer so much through the detox process.  Your body is starving for opiates when you cut it off suddenly and they can give you a partial, synthetic opiate that does not really get you high or keep you addicted but at the same time it will ease your withdrawal pain.  Thus you can get real help for the detox process if you are willing to go to drug rehab to get it.