Safety should be your primary concern when choosing any detox program, but, particularly a rapid detox program.  Midwest Cardiac [Heart] Surgeons chose Dr. Sponaugle and the Florida Detox team to perform rapid detox on a heart transplant patient with a severe Oxycontin addiction, 3,000 mg/day Oxycontin. Why would you choose any other rapid detox center or traditional drug detox? The majority of the drug detox and alcohol treatment centers in America have medical directors with minimal training in cardiac or intensive care medicine. These doctors lack the expertise needed to prevent the dangerous surges of adrenaline  produced from alcohol and drug detoxification. 

The Sponaugle Protocol for Rapid Detox was designed using a computerized ultrasonic heart monitor, trans- esophageal echocardiography. This computer continuously measures pumping function of the heart and the arterial resistance that the heart must pump against. Surging adrenaline squeezes the arteries, "much like tightening the hose nozzle." This increases the resistance load the heart must pump against. Dr. Sponaugle proved with this high tech monitor that the Sponaugle rapid detox protocol prevents cardiac stress while enhancing blood flow to the heart and brain. Choose like a cardiac surgeon, choose Dr. Sponaugle and Florida Detox. 

Addiction doctors at nationally recognized treatment centers have always accepted painful and dangerous withdrawal as normal and unavoidable. Because they lack intensive care expertise, they do not know how to prevent your withdrawal symptoms.

Many addiction doctors in America are "recovering alcoholics or addicts." During their personal detox experience, they were taught the myth that "the more you suffer, the less chance you will relapse. " This outdated philosophy is not only demoralizing to suffering patients, it places patients at risk for heart attack and brain damage. 

During withdrawal, unchecked surges of adrenaline ( norepinephrine )  squeeze the coronary arteries and the blood vessels to the brain. This produces dangerously high blood pressure, a racing heart and decreases vital blood flow to the brain.  Young healthy patients have died in Florida jails while detoxing from methadone. These unnecessary deaths were most likely caused by cardiac arrhythmias.

Recent PET scan, brain [volumetric] studies, have revealed that traditional detox,  that in which adrenaline surges are not prevented, actually will destroy brain cells. Why have addiction doctors allowed detox patients to suffer nerve tremors and mini-seizures from excess electrical current? This has never been allowed in non addicted patients, for any reason. The excess electrical current in the brain of detox patients is revealed through arm and leg tremors, twitching and muscle spasms. Why have doctors believed this did not hurt the addicted patient's brain? Predudice and lack of knowlege?