Facts
- Therapeutic Communities have recently expanded their role and are now being designed to accommodate the needs of women who are pregnant or have children.
- Salvia sits on the shelves right along with other legal drugs such as bath salts that use chemical addictives to mimic the effects of other illegal drugs.
- When Coca was first introduced the alkaloid cocaine was isolated, and it was used in medicine for its medicinal effects on depression, alcohol and morphine addiction, fatigue, and as a local anesthetic. The result was addiction and dependency to cocaine and its use in medicine was discontinued.
- Methamphetamine use typically increases sexual arousal and lowers sexual inhibitions, and users often put themselves at increased risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV infection.
Methadone Detoxification - Gideon, MissouriMethadone detoxification can be a very uncomfortable and difficult experience. Symptoms usually begin between twenty-four and forty-eight hours after the user's last dose of the drug. Typical withdrawal symptoms include: stomach cramps, nausea, sweating, tremors, extreme opiate cravings, irritability, sneezing, fever, anxiety, fuzzy-headedness, paranoia, 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 typically advise the gradual decrease of the drug over a period of time instead of completely stopping all at once.