Withdrawal Symptoms

Times in-Depth: Heroin's Deadly Return to Erie

Times In-Depth: Heroin's deadly return to Erie

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Unaccounted for are heroin addicts who seek help at private facilities or get no treatment. Figures for heroin addiction "are really hard to get," …. The point of origin for the drugs: Detroit, which police long had identified as the source city for … Read more on GoErie.com

 

Why Isn’t “Responsible Drug Abuse” Legal?

Question by jsprplc2006: Why isn’t “responsible drug abuse” legal?
Here’s my story.

I was prescribed Dexedrine in high school for depression and drowsiness. It worked very well, but I had to change psychiatrists (my previous doctor specialized in pediatric psychiatry, so I now had an adult psychiatrist), and the new one was reluctant to prescribe me more once I was in college. I’m not sure why, since I never had the slightest problem with dependence; nothing negative happened as a result of it.

Mark Brunell: NFL Needs to Crack Down on Marijuana

Mark Brunell: NFL needs to crack down on marijuana

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Former NFL quarterback Mark Brunell, now a commentator for ESPN, said on SportsCenter today that far from allowing players to smoke pot, the NFL needs to be cracking down on them. “I believe it's harmful,” Brunell said. “I believe it has a negative … Read more on NBCSports.com

 

Metro Atlanta sees uptick in heroin addiction

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Isn’t It Funny When a Politician Accuses Someone of Using “Smoke and Mirror” Tactics?

Question by Welcome to Amerika Mr. 0rwell !!: Isn’t it funny when a politician accuses someone of using “smoke and mirror” tactics?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/17/obama-weekly-radio-addres_n_324648.html

“The history is clear: For decades rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy,” the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. “And for decades, whenever we have tried to reform the system, the insurance companies have done everything in their considerable power to stop us.”

Could Cannabis Really Be an 'Exit Drug'?

Could Cannabis Really Be an 'Exit Drug'?

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The three main reasons cited in the study for cannabis being chosen over any other medicine were “Less withdrawal, fewer side-effects and better symptom management.” Furthermore, it was found that cannabis worked when …. A 2010 study published in the … Read more on Ladybud Magazine

 

Uruguay, Big Pharma And The Global Marijuana Market

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Prescription Drugs Lead to Growing Problem of Infant Addiction

Prescription drugs lead to growing problem of infant addiction

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“That boils down to every hour a baby born in the United States is born with the signs and symptoms of opiate withdrawal, or roughly 13,539 babies per year,” said Jonathan Phillips, University Health Conway's assistant director of nursing. Neonatal … Read more on Monroe News Star

 

Renata Ford, Rob Ford's Wife, Discussed Concerns About Mayor's Drug Use

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On and Off the Road With Barack Obama.

On and off the road with Barack Obama.

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He said that these included making sure that everybody is “being treated with dignity or respect regardless of what they look like or what their last name is or who they love,” providing a strong defense, and “leaving a planet that is as spectacular as … Read more on New Yorker

 

Uruguay, Big Pharma And The Global Marijuana Market

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What Is Ice?

Question by foxracing: what is ice?
what does it do?
i ment the drug

Best answer:

Answer by katiee 14
is this a trick question?

Answer by Tatt
Crystal Methamphetamine

What is “ice”?
”Ice” is a street name for crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride, which is a powerful, synthetic stimulant drug. Stimulant drugs speed up the messages going to and from the brain.

Ice is more potent than other forms of amphetamines. It is more pure than the powder form of methamphetamine (“speed”).

Ice often appears as large, transparent and “sheet-like” crystals that may have a hint of pink, blue or green colour.

Jo Martin: Sugar Can Be Like an Addiction

Jo Martin: Sugar can be like an addiction

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Other trials have shown that laboratory rats, once made sugar-dependEnt, will actively choose sugar over cocaine as a reward. Avena also believes that some people are so sugar-addicted that "coming off it" can cause withdrawal symptoms. So why are we, … Read more on Nottingham Post (blog)

 

CULTURE WARS

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(By comparison, about 20 percent of cocaine users become addicted). NIDA reported that nearly 4.2 million people abused pot or had an addiction problem in 2011, according to Fox News. Alcoholics can suffer from the following withdrawal symptoms: … Read more on WND.com

Weighing the Importance of Easing Patients' Pain Against Possible Drug Abuse

Weighing the Importance of Easing Patients' Pain Against Possible Drug Abuse

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But a proposal to prevent this from happening is raising another concern: that easing access to painkillers will worsen a growing crisis with patients becoming addicted to opioids and other powerful drugs. The final days of the state legislative … Read more on NJ Spotlight

 


Drug Addiction : How to Help a Friend Through Opiate Methadone Detox at Home – Methadone detox at home is something that will not be comfortable, and several withdrawal symptoms will be experienced. Help a friend detox at home from meth…