At Florida Detox^® we detox heart transplant patients. We specialize in high dose methadone detox. We routinely detox methadone addicted patients with severe methadone addiction, 600-1000 mg per day. Our record patient, a successful Atlanta contractor, proved with his methadone bottles, that he was indeed suffering a methadone dependency of 8,000 mg/day.

Using the Sponaugle protocol for rapid methadone detox, James did not suffer methadone withdrawal symptoms; no nerve or muscle twitching, no tremors, no stomach cramps or diarrhea. James had excellent medical stability with no change in his heart rate or blood pressure. James returned to Atlanta one week later and began managing his commercial construction company. He returned for follow up care monthly.

Truly, this is an amazing feat. We could not perform methadone rapid detox with such precision before detoxing methadone on thousands of methadone addiction patients. Dr. Sponaugle and his rapid methadone detox have been praised by Dr. Phil and featured on multiple National News Networks, CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS and NBC, we have had the opportunity to perform rapid detox for methadone on thousands of patients. Dr. Sponaugle and the Florida Detox team are the most experienced methadone rapid detox program in America. We have now successfully treated over five thousand patients.

Dr. Sponaugle and the Florida Detox team can perform a safe and painless methadone detox for severe methadone addiction because the Sponaugle protocol for detoxing methadone was designed using a computerized ultrasonic cardiac monitor. The computer constantly measures pumping function of the heart and the arterial resistance the heart must pump against. Poorly executed methadone rapid detox at other rapid detox centers has caused severely increased arterial resistance and subsequent heart attacks, heart failure and death. Be careful!

We have the most perfected methadone rapid detox in America, doctors know this, there is good reason that medical doctors and heart transplant surgeons choose Dr. Sponaugle and Florida Detox for addicted heart transplant patients. Doctors from distant countries as far as China and India request training from Dr. Sponaugle for the Florida Detox rapid methadone detox technology.

Our hospital based methadone rapid detox has an unmatched safety record and we have treated the most patients. The foundation of our rapid methadone detox is derived from the extensive cardiac/intensive care training that Dr. Sponaugle received while attending the University of Florida Medical Center. Using a computerized ultrasonic heart monitor called trans esophageal echocardiography, Dr. Sponaugle designed his rapid detox for methadone, a methadone detoxification that ensures cardiac and brain protection.

Methadone detoxification protocols designed by family doctors and psychiatrists can not produce the ultimate control of heart rate, blood pressure and cerebral[brain] blood flow achieved at Florida Detox and Wellness Institute.

Medical training in and of itself is only the foundation, experience from treating thousands of patients with methadone addiction produces the art of medicine, that which is above and beyond the science. Just as you would prefer a heart surgeon who has performed 5,000 open heart procedures versus only a few hundred, you should choose wisely for your methadone rapid detox center.

The mid west heart surgeons and cardiologists who chose Dr. Sponaugle and Florida Detox to perform rapid detox on their heart transplant patient, a nurse addicted to 3,000 mg per day of Oxycontin, had the advantage of extensive medical knowledge and diligent research. Choose like a heart surgeon or cardiologist, choose Florida Detox. Excellence is derived from passion, diligent research, treating thousands of patients and years of experience.

Only with the Sponaugle protocol for rapid methadone detox can you be guaranteed the tested and proven safety record and the extraordinary expertise derived from performing methadone detox on thousands of patients. Our patients detox methadone with a methadone detox protocol that protects the heart and brain and is also painless. Our methadone detox is performed in an eight story medical center for good reason.

Don’t be misguided by unscrupulous marketing that suggests you will get the same quality of medical care while detoxing methadone in a “house in the woods,” an apartment building or a surgery center that discharges you to a hotel the day you detoxify methadone. Methadone detoxification is the most dangerous drug detox, young healthy patients die attempting to detox methadone in ill equipped detox centers.

The intensive medical care that is necessary to prevent all potential adrenaline surge during detoxification of methadone can not be provided by inexperienced detox doctors or in non medical rehab facilities.

Common sense and God given judgment should prevail over internet marketing that suggests equal safety and medical expertise in some house or apartment building recently converted to a detox facility.

These "detox centers" can not treat a medical emergency, they must dial 911 as you do at home. If methadone detox was not potentially dangerous, young healthy patients would not repeatedly die in Florida jails while detoxing from methadone.

Several patients have already died while detoxing methadone in ill-considered detox facilities. Florida has recently developed a few precarious programs that attempt to perform high dose methadone detox in these houses, apartment buildings and surgery centers.

These detox houses will eventually produce another patient tragedy or fatality. You could be the one who suffers the unforeseen medical complication. Mere minutes make all the difference in when patients have unexpected cardiac stress and emergencies or allergic drug reactions.

These detox centers continue to push the limit on methadone detoxification while being fully aware they nor their center can handle medical emergencies. There are horror stories of patients being rushed to the hospital emergency room, some too late.

Ultimately, in an emergency situation, you must get to the hospital very quickly to prevent heart and brain damage. Why not begin your quest for freedom from methadone, methadone detox, in the medical hospital that has performed more methadone rapid detox than any hospital detox unit in America?

Recently, a patient from Arizona came to Florida Detox stating he had previously entered a three month rehab program with a methadone addiction of 120 mg/day. After suffering severe methadone withdrawal for eight weeks, the young man suffered seizure like activity and sadly developed a permanent speech impediment. The excess electrical current derived from continuous methadone withdrawal damaged the speech center in his left temporal lobe.

University PET scan studies have recently demonstrated that withdrawal from poorly executed detox causes brain cell injury. For this reason, we do not allow any twitching or visible withdrawal in the Florida Detox hospital unit. We have offered expert witness to assist this unfortunate family in litigation against the negligent detox doctor and this dangerous detox center.

With the Florida Detox/Sponaugle protocol for methadone detox, patients are admitted to the hospital detox unit where detox specialty/intensive care nurses utilize their critical care skills to provide extraordinary medical care for our patients.

They diligently watch for any patient discomfort and ensure a pleasant stay during the methadone detoxification. Patients often play cards, work out in the gym or work on their laptop by Wednesday, the day after their Tuesday detox from methadone. The friendly nurses will give you tender loving care.

Often patients detox methadone on Tuesday and discharge on Thursday or Friday. They and their northern families enjoy the white sugar sand at Clearwater Beach with their family before flying back home on Sunday. www.clearwaterbeach.com

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