 Drug prevention and education
Helping children and teenagers to "just say no" to drugs becomes a little easier with ...
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METH Users are prone to violent actions
April 27, 2003 - HILLSBORO Ð Lt. Chuck Middleton, of the Highland County Sheriff’s Office ...
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The Onset of Addiction
Bellingham's Bouchard said her brother's battle with drugs began when he tried alcohol for the ...
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In 1994, cocaine-related episodes comprised 28% of all emergency room drug-related episodes.
Alcohol affects people differently, depending on their size, sex, body build, and metabolism.
Street names: blow, 'caine, coke, cola, freeze, snow (powder), base, rock (crack), blizzard, sleet, white lady, nose candy, soda, snow cone, blanco, cubes.
Cocaine users will lose interest in their family, sex, jobs, just about everything, except using more cocaine.
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Methadone Facts
- In blind trials, users who were given
both drugs orally were unable to distinguish between the effects heroin and methadone.
- Withdrawal
from heroin should be over after seven to ten days. Withdrawal from methadone
though, can take up to a month or even longer.
- Many
former heroin users have claimed that the horrors of heroin withdrawal were far
less painful and difficult than withdrawal from methadone.
- Methadone
is a synthetic drug. It was first invented in Germany during the Second World
War by scientists who, having discovered pethidine some years earlier, were developing
other similar compounds.
- The effects
of methadone last longer than those of morphine-based drugs.
- Methadone's
effects can last up to 24 hours.
- Deaths
occur more frequently at the beginning of treatment in methadone programs; they
are usually a cause of excessive doses (i.e. erroneously estimated tolerance).
- Methadone
generally entails the entire spectrum of opioid side effects, including the development
of tolerance and physical and psychological dependence.
- Individuals
are as physically dependent on methadone as they were to heroin or other opiates,
such as Oxycotin or Vicodin.
- The most
common side effects of Methadone are: drowsiness; lightheadedness, weakness, euphoria,
dry mouth, urinary retention, constipation, and slow or troubled breathing.
- Ironically,
methadone used to control narcotic addiction is frequently encountered on the
illicit market and has been associated with a number of overdose deaths.
- Methadone
comes as tablets, dispersible tablets, liquid, and liquid concentrate.
- Methadone
is one of the most difficult drugs to detox from since its effects are long-lasting
and it is readily stored in the body's tissue.
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