Morphine has been around a long time it was actually made available for sale in 1817 by Sertürner and Company. In fact before morphine all people had to rely on for pain was opium but like a lot of new inventions there is a price to pay. The price for this was then and still is now morphine addiction. It was going to be used as a treatment for alcohol and opium addiction, imagine that!
It was found sometime later that morphine was worse than the two of them. It was used quite frequently during the civil war and was said to be the cause of over 400,000 morphine addictions. This led people to use of the term the Soldiers disease. This is unfortunate because in those days they did not have the rehab facilities we have today. There idea of help was to send you to an asylum, kind of like out of sight out of mind so to speak.
How to overcome morphine addiction
There is however help and one can overcome morphine addiction if they actually have the desire to stop using morphine. My suggestion to anyone suffering from morphine addiction would be to go to opiate addiction treatment. If you choose to do this you can expect to be medically detoxed from morphine. In most cases they will use suboxone for this. This generally takes around 5 days. I have to add here that you will be made quite comfortable and will not suffer much from morphine withdrawal.
I would further say that if you want to remain clean then I would have to recommend that you continue your recovery in residential treatment. If you do not go you will relapse there is no question about that in my mind at all. Rehab usually last around 14 days during which time you will learn how to stay clean. You will attend group, 12 step meetings and lectures. This is to prepare you for when you leave rehab.
