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Friday, April 22nd, 2011OxyContin can do many things. It can help relieve pain, decrease anxiety…and cause euphoria, respiratory depression, constipation, and meiosis (papillary constriction). It can also cause difficulty urinating, fast or slow heartbeat, seizures, severe dizziness, unusual bleeding and bruising, lightheadedness, or fainting; slowed or difficult breathing, tremors and vision changes. So yes, while OxyContin can relieve [...]
What is Rapid Detox?
Friday, December 10th, 2010Rapid detox, also known as ultra rapid detox or rapid opiate detox, describes a medical procedure that can reverse an addict’s physical drug dependency without the lengthy, painful, and embarrassing withdrawal period. Drug rehabilitation typically begins with a detoxification process that can last anywhere from a few days to a week. Additionally, this period is [...]
Capital Overdose
Friday, June 25th, 2010Capital Overdose In real estate, they say the most important factor is, “location, location, location,” and the same can be said for drug abuse. Year after year, national polls are conducted to see where the concentration of drug abuse and drug related problems exist. And year after year, some of America’s biggest cities continue to [...]
Adderal: A College Epidemic
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Adderall: A College Epidemic Problem: While every semester college students across the U.S. fall into the habit of sleeping and partying a lot more and studying a lot less, it seems that the illegal use of Adderall exponentially increases. Of the recent, this is become a true epidemic across many universities, colleges, and even high [...]
DRUG-USE STAGES
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Drug use can be viewed as a series of developmental stages: initiation, escalation, maintenance, discontinuation (sometimes including relapse), and recovery. Some clients go from one stage to another, others do not. Some relapse many times, whereas others bypass relapse altogether. INITIATION Drug experimentation typically begins during adolescence, in social settings during middle or high school. Teens rarely [...]
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