Facts
- The number of Americans receiving specialty treatment for a problem with nonmedical pain reliever use more than doubled between 2002 and 2010, from 199,000 to over 400,000.
- Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms and their widespread recurrence, even when individuals step down their dose very gradually, is caused by the receptors in the serotonin system experiencing the drop in serotonin to pre-drug levels as starvation.
- Meth users may experience fatigue; long, disturbed periods of sleep, irritability; intense hunger, moderate to severe depression, psychotic reactions, and anxiety reactions are all symptoms of Meth withdrawal.
- Mixing alcohol with certain medications often causes nausea and vomiting, headaches, drowsiness, fainting, or loss of coordination.
Methadone Detoxification - Liberty Corner, NJ.Methadone detoxification can be a very uncomfortable and challenging experience. Withdrawal 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, sweating, nausea, extreme cravings, tremors, irritability, sneezing, fever, vomiting, paranoia, fuzzy-headedness, hallucinations and clinical depression. Additionally, methadone withdrawal symptoms tend to continue 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 stopping all at once.