Heroin withdrawal is not fatal for healthy adults, but can be fatal to the fetus of a pregnant addict.
Rates of death as a result of motor vehicle crashes and alcoholism are 5.5 and 3.8 times higher, respectively, for American Indians than among the general population.
Ketamine users have often report experiencing sensations that range from a pleasant feeling of floating to being separated from their bodies.
Drug withdrawal symptoms from benzodiazepines are similar to that experienced in opioid withdrawal but are more intense and last longer.