Coming Down Off Heroin

Coming Down Off Heroin

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When someone finally arrives at the moment when they are ready to quit heroin they have likely experienced serious and devastating consequences from the addiction. Heroin addiction causes a wide range of serious health and mental health effects,…
dope sick symptoms

What Are Dope Sick Symptoms?

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If you've ever heard this term before, you may be wondering, 'what is dope sick?'. The term “dope sick” refers to the condition of experiencing withdrawal symptoms due to opiate addiction. The person may initially discover they are addicted…
dope sick symptoms

What Are Dope Sick Symptoms?

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The term “dope sick” refers to the condition of experiencing withdrawal symptoms due to opiate addiction. The person may initially discover they are addicted to prescription painkillers when they stop taking the pills and begin to feel intense…
Detox Medicine

Detox Medicine

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Detox Medicine Options for Drug and Alcohol Addiction Just the anticipation of the detox and withdrawal process can deter many people from ever considering getting help for a drug or alcohol problem.  Detox is the necessary first step…
dangers of Heroin and Fentanyl

Understanding the Dangers of Heroin and Fentanyl

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Understanding the Dangers of Heroin and Fentanyl In recent years the country has been in the throes of a drug epidemic, the degree of which the U.S. has never experienced before.  At the center of the crisis lie opioids, including the…
How Long Does It Take to Detox

How Long Does it Take to Detox From Heroin?

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How Long Does it Take to Detox From Heroin? It’s understandable why someone about to undergo a heroin detox might ask, “How long does it take to detox from heroin,” right?  It isn’t exactly a walk in the park, going through detox…
detoxing from heroin

What Helps With Detoxing From Heroin

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What Helps With Detoxing From Heroin? Though it may be a huge challenge to imagine that the highly unpleasant experience of going through a heroin detox will indeed end in a matter of days, rest assured that it will.  Taking that very…
why is heroin so addictive

Why is Heroin So Addictive

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Why is Heroin So Addictive? The resurgence of heroin over the past decade has taken the nation completely off guard.  Once considered a passé drug of the 1970s, out of nowhere heroin returned to the drug scene, plowing through all social…
Visible Signs of Heroin Abuse

What Are the Visible Signs of Heroin Abuse?

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The past decade has seen a surprising spike in the use of heroin, a drug that was once associated with the 1970s and multiple high profile overdose deaths, such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison. But after retreating into relative…
cheese is like heroin

Cheese Is Like Heroin

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At first glance someone reading that title might conjure up images of Gouda or Brie and imagine that, yes, yummy cheese might be just as addicting as an illicit drug such as heroin. Only in this case, cheese is heroin. Yep, a…