Repeated and chronic heroin users who fail to use sterile needles or share equipment may experience infection of the heart lining and valves, normally due to lack of sterile technique.
The powerful effects of Salvia have been well documented and users even flaunt its effects by videoing themselves while high on the drug.
Short-term residential drug rehab was first designed to address alcohol problems, and then transitioned into a multi-faceted program during the cocaine epidemic in the mid-1980s, at which point many began to treat other types of addiction.
Methadone withdrawal can be up to twice as severe as morphine or heroin withdrawal and can last for several weeks or more.