Facts
- Opiate injection caused the users to experience a more effective and timely high, which produces an intense feeling of pleasure followed by a sense of well-being and a calm drowsiness.
- The original intention for methadone maintenance treatment was to reduce illegal heroin use and the criminal acts that are associated with heroin addiction.
- Withdrawal symptoms associated with methadone can include but are not limited to body aches and muscle cramping, back aches, leg kicking, anxiety, chills, shivering or trembling, abdominal cramping, weakness, increased blood pressure, convulsions, insomnia, diarrhea, running nose, watery eyes, sneezing, sweating, pale and clammy skin, nausea and thoughts of suicide.
- When crack cocaine is smoked addiction seems to develop more quickly than with powdered cocaine which is typically snorted.
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