Methadone Detox          Methadone Rapid Detox          Methadone Addiction

Dr. Sponaugle has designed the safest and least painful methadone detox in America. Patients from all over the world travel to Florida Detox & Wellness Institute for our relatively painless methadone detox. We offer patients suffering methadone addiction the safest methadone rapid detox in America.

With the Sponaugle technique for methadone detox, you will painlessly detox methadone under a light anesthetic similar to what is administered in a dental office for tooth extraction. When you awaken you should experience NO METHADONE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS.

Methadone patients have the worst looking brain scans seen at Florida Detox. Their brains are the most toxic. The good news is that Dr. Sponaugle has designed a comprehensive biochemical treatment including intravenous toxin removal that will make your ugly methadone brain [scan on left] look like the healthy brain [scan on right] in just four to six weeks.

To accomplish this, Dr. Sponaugle must optimize over sixty brain chemicals and hormones and aggressively remove fatty neurotoxins from your brain while he simultaneously corrects multiple nutritional deficiencies derived from your methadone induced toxic and inflamed gut.

That’s right - your gut has become a toxic dumping ground because of methadone induced constipation. How often do you have a bowel movement on your methadone - every three to five days? You should move the toxic chemicals that are laced in our food supply out of your intestine three times a day. If methadone induced constipation has prevented you from having a bowel movement more often than every three to five days when you should have three bowel movements a day, you have five times three which equals fifteen times the toxic load in your brain a healthy individual.

The fatty toxins laced in America’s food supply, and those produced by toxic bacteria and yeast that overgrow a constipated gut, travel from your gut to your brain, where they accumulate in the fatty brain tissue. They short circuit electrical pathways in the brain, thus reducing the brain’s electrical function and the manufacturing of essential brain chemicals. They also suppress the brain’s pituitary gland production of multiple hormones that sustain brain and body function.

These fatty neurotoxins also destroy the fatty myelin sheath, the insulation on brain neurons, this causes scarring of the myelin which is seen on MRI as white spots, the diagnostic pattern of  early multiple sclerosis. We have treated several twenty something year olds who were diagnosed as having MS by neurologists. After methadone detox and Dr. Sponaugle’s aggressive intravenous brain toxin removal program, the white spots on the brain went away along with the patient’s MS symptoms.

Methadone patients suffer severe toxic overload in their brain, this causes brain fog and overall decreased brain function. If your brain is already being taken down by methadone treatment and subsequent excessive accumulation of toxins, you may experience some of the following symptoms - below is a checklist.

• Are you already suffering early memory loss from methadone?
• Do you have difficulty remembering people’s names or more difficulty grasping words when talking in front of a group of people?
• Have you noticed that your vision is not as sharp, that you cannot distinguish colors as well, that you have more difficulty differentiating navy blue and black socks unless in excellent light?
• Have you noticed a fine tremor in your fingers or that you are slightly more clumbsy,  a slight loss of balance that causes you to bump into people when walking next to them or that you seem to be less coordinated when playing sports since you began taking methadone?
• Do you get dizzy when you stand up quickly, do you feel tired all the time, have you lost interest in things that used to be fun since you started methadone treatment?
• Has your sense of smell or hearing decreased since you started methadone?
• Do you feel fatigued with less physical activity than you used to, do you suffer chronic fatigue, are your muscles and joints stiff in the morning since you started taking methadone?  
• Have you noticed that your hands and feet are often more cold than they were before taking methadone, that you often wear a jacket or sweater in weather that you used to only dress in a tee shirt?
• Have you already gained forty pounds of fat since you started taking methadone, have you lost muscle in your arms and legs since you started taking methadone? Has your dress size gone up from a size four to a size ten since you began taking methadone?

If you have begun to suffer any of these symptoms since you began methadone treatment, your brain is accumulating excessive neurotoxins. It is time to get off of the methadone and get your life back.

University brain scan studies demonstrate that it takes one year off methadone to get a decent looking brain scan, we have proven with brain Spect imaging that we can make your brain healthy again in one just one month with our brain optimization/Anti-Aging program. Non addicted patients come from Europe for this Anti-Aging program, we give it to all of our detox patients at no extra cost. 

Our patients are amazed that Dr. Sponaugle’s detox technique is really ”too good to be true.” It took Dr. Sponaugle 12 years and 5,000 patients to perfect his current methadone detox protocol. Dr. Sponaugle has personally performed rapid detox on more methadone patients than any other doctor in North America. He has proven the efficacy and safety of his rapid detox for methadone. 

During your methadone detox, Dr. Sponaugle will assure that your heart rate and blood pressure remain perfectly normal while he administers intravenous medication that will remove methadone from your opiate receptors into your bloodstream. When you wake up after your one to two hour methadone detox procedure, all the methadone will have been removed from your brain’s opiate receptors.

The methadone that has held you hostage will no longer have any effect or power over your body. You will be free of your physical addiction to methadone. There will not be any future methadone withdrawal to go through, a commonly asked question. You will have accomplished while you’re sedated under DR. Sponaugle’s care, what requires a tortuous and dangerous eight weeks of suffering in traditional detox centers.

Other detox centers cannot give you the Sponaugle method for methadone detox or the Anti-aging/brain wellness program that restores more than sixty biochemicals and expedites making your brain healthy again. They cannot adequately prevent the dangerous adrenaline surge that quietly destroys your brain cells during their methadone detoxification process. The excessive adrenaline produced with their method of methadone detox will also place extra stress on your heart.

Norepinephrine or noradrenaline is a potent vasoconstrictor. When detox doctors allow noradrenaline to surge to higher levels, it squeeze the arteries that supply blood to your heart and your brain, your brain suffers from micro-hypoxia [lack of adequate oxygen in the micro circulation]. 

This decreased oxygen delivery kills more brain cells during the detox, but, no one knows this because you can’t see it. If you have been taking methadone on a regular basis, you have already destroyed enough of your brain’s delicate neurons! Please view the methadone brain scan below.

The unchecked surging noradrenaline associated with other methods of methadone detox, kills brain cells via two mechanisms. First, the decreased blood flow and subsequent decreased oxygen delivery to your brain while you are going through detox. Second, the excessive noradrenaline stimulates excessive electricity in your electrical brain cells essentially electrocuting or “frying” them.

These physiological concepts validate the reason and explain why the the recent PET SCAN studies at University of  Toronto proved that detox can be more damaging to the brain than drinking. Alcoholics lost more brain cells going through traditional detox once a year than they did if they drank continuously and never stopped for a detox.

Brain scientists know that every sip of alcohol kills some brain cells and that continuous drinking results in a smaller brain each year. This is why they were surprised to find that the alcoholics who underwent a “shake and bake” detox once a year, lost more brain volume over ten years than the alcoholics who drank consistently throughout the ten year period!!!!

With this advanced knowledge regarding the rarely discussed perils of a traditional detox, one designed by family doctors and psychiatrists with no cardiac expertise,  you can easily deduct that you want a methadone detox that prevents all withdrawal induced adrenaline surges.

Dr. Sponaugle was the first addiction doctor worldwide to invent a methadone detox that prevents all unwanted adrenaline surges caused by methadone detox. He is also the first addiction doctor to prove that methadone patients suffer more deleterious changes to brain chemistry and hormonal production and have worse looking Spect brain scans than patients addicted to other drugs, including those addicted to methamphetamine.

Please scroll down to view a comparison of a SPECT brain scan on a normal healthy brain to the brain of a methadone patient. Dr. Sponaugle is also the first addiction physician to prove that methadone doses of 80 mg/day cause total ovarian shut down in most twenty something women. They become post menopausal in their twenties.

In 2009, Dr. Sponaugle presented his alarming research at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Dr. Sponaugle has proven that methadone shuts down the brain’s pituitary function so severely that young twenty something women on methadone have less ovarian production, less sex hormones than their healthy grandmothers.

Dr. Sponaugle has also proven that methadone patients have severe suppression of more than twenty other important hormones and that methadone is the worst opiate regarding suppression of the entire pituitary-adrenal axis. Many young men in their twenties taking methadone suffer severe testosterone deficiency with levels in the range of 50 to 100 when they should be 800-900.

Testosterone deficiency in both sexes causes a severe loss of bone density. This is why young kids stand in line at methadone clinics throughout America discussing the fact that they began losing their teeth after signing up at the methadone clinic.

Unfortunately, these unsuspecting methadone patients, male and female, are also losing bone density in their femurs and hip joints like their 80 year old grandmothers. They also suffer severe thyroid suppression derived from methadone induced pituitary gland suppression. The methadone induced hypothyroidism causes severe weight gain with many female patients gaining seventy pounds within one year of methadone treatment.

Because of methadone induced adrenal failure, patients don’t make enough cortisol, DHEA or epinephrine, pure adrenaline. This causes severe chronic fatigue. After a year at the clinic, Methadone patients begin to feel like they have a fifty pound cement block attached to each leg.

Methadone patients develop an underactive nucleus accumbens or pleasure center, hence they lose motivation and have difficulty achieving orgasm. Their personality is lost to the classic methadone drone or robotic profile. They become numb and emotionless, they simply go through the motions of life without feeling the exciting highs and lows, they only feel the continuous low.

You know that I just described your life on methadone. I can help you get your personality and your life back now. Come to one of my Brain Chemistry and Addiction workshops - learn more about how to get free of this ugly drug, the biggest lie in America - Methadone. 

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