Dr. Andre Waismann's story

Сompleted his medical training at Brazil’s Serra dos Órgãos University Center in 1981. Initially, he started his medical career as a surgeon and trauma specialist. Later, he added critical care management to his practice. While working in critical care, he noticed that after a continuous opioid based pain management treatment, many patients developed dependency to those medications. Withdrawals from opioid medication became a challenge where patients and doctors would struggle to overcome the obstacle.

Israel Defense Forces

After his military service in the Israel Defense Forces, he volunteered in Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Unit as a combat physician and received the Israeli Police Medal for Distinguished Service after saving lives during battle.

Dr. Waismann became the Medical Director in charge of the Jerusalem district for the Israeli police. Along with other obligations, he became responsible for the treatment of hundreds of inmates addicted to street opiate drugs.

Dr. Waismann decided to improve the level of care of those inmates. Instead of providing them with opiate substitutes, like methadone, he tried to look for better alternatives. He asked for advice from several specialists in Israel and other countries.

At that time, the most rational approach he found was trying to precipitate withdrawals with opiate antagonists along with sedation to take the adverse symptoms of the withdrawal.

He realized that the biological roots of opioid dependency were no different in a street heroin addicts and pain patients.

Dr. Waismann decided to take this approach and develop a reliable procedure introducing modern techniques of intensive care medicine.

He started discussions with senior anesthesiologists and a safe, effective, and humane treatment protocol was developed.

Since starting Rapid Detox in 1994

Dr. Waismann kept developing the protocol in a continuous evidence-based improvement process.

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