Facts
- Smoking freebase cocaine creates a more powerful effect more rapidly, but it is also more dangerous because the safe dose can easily be exceeded.
- The THC in hashish that an individual will need to consume to feel high is about 10 milligrams, of which only a small part eventually reaches the brain.
- Morphine withdrawal can last anywhere from 5 to 10 days while withdrawal from methadone may take weeks or months.
- The criminal justice system refers drug offenders into drug treatment in a variety of ways, including diverting nonviolent offenders to treatment; stipulating treatment as a condition of incarceration, probation, or pretrial release; and holding specialized courts, or drug courts that handle drug offenders.
North Cleveland, TX. - Methadone DetoxificationMethadone 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 methadone. Typical withdrawal symptoms include: stomach cramps, sweating, nausea, tremors, extreme opiate cravings, irritability, sneezing, chills, anxiety, fuzzy-headedness, paranoia, clinical depression and hallucinations. Additionally, 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 stopping all at once.