Facts
- LSD research conducted in the 50's and 60's tried to find the potential therapeutic properties of the "psychedelic" LSD experience in relation to being able to help patients that were dying of terminal illnesses to be able to accept death.
- Mixing prescription drugs with alcohol can cause nausea, vomiting, headaches, drowsiness, fainting, or loss of coordination.
- One treatment approach that is used for managing opiate withdrawal is to treat the symptoms of the withdrawal with appropriate medication. Clondine, an antihypertensive drug, is sometimes used to reduce muscle pain and cramping.
- Injecting methamphetamine creates an intense and rapid which users often seek to recapture as soon as it begins to fade, which can result in binging on the drug for days.
Letcher, South Dakota - Methadone DetoxificationMethadone detoxification can be a very uncomfortable and taxing experience. Symptoms usually begin between twenty-four and forty-eight hours after the user's last dose of methadone. Typical withdrawal symptoms include: stomach cramps, sweating, nausea, extreme cravings, tremors, irritability, sneezing, chills, vomiting, paranoia, fuzzy-headedness, hallucinations and clinical depression. Additionally, these unpleasant methadone withdrawal symptoms will last much longer than heroin withdrawal symptoms. Depending on the dose of methadone you have been taking the symptoms can last for several weeks to several months. Professionals in the field of methadone detoxification share that it is important to gradually decrease your dose of the drug over a period of time instead of completely stopping all at once.