Facts
- The practice of concealing cocaine or other drugs inside one's body (either by swallowing or inserting the drug) to avoid police or border authority detection is a smuggling attempt known as body packing.
- The findings of a recent 10-year follow-up study regarding the relationship between marijuana use and the development of psychosis over time found that marijuana use was a risk factor for the prevalence of psychotic symptoms.
- The high level of alcohol consumption is many times greater than the level of illegal drug use, making it one of America's most serious drug problems.
- PCP was once an approved for anesthetic in humans but was discontinued in 1965 because individuals who were administered the drug often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.
Zullinger, PA. - Methadone DetoxificationMethadone detoxification can be a very uncomfortable and challenging 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, nausea, sweating, tremors, extreme opiate cravings, irritability, sneezing, chills, vomiting, anxiety, fuzzy-headedness, paranoia, clinical depression and hallucinations. Additionally, these unpleasant 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.