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  • Drug Overdose Facts
  • In several states deaths as a result of prescription drugs now exceed those from motor vehicle accidents, with opiate painkillers like Vicodin, Percocet and OxyContin being the main culprits.
  • Researchers have reported that in order for a person to consume enough marijuana to experience a fatal overdose, they would have to consume almost 40,000 times the amount of THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) required to intoxicate them. For example, if it took an individual 10 hits to become intoxicated, it would take 400,000 hits of marijuana to produce a fatal overdose.
  • Between 2005 and2009 among males between the ages of 35 and 49, narcotic pain reliever involvement in emergency room visits for attempted suicides almost doubled among from 2,380 to 4,270 visits.
  • Due to the drugs undesirable side effects, GHB was discontinued by the medical community in the United States many years ago.
  • Chronic opiate use causes the bodys natural painkillers (known as endorphins) to cease working as they normally would, causing even more of a reliance to opiates.
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Detoxification

Detoxification is normally the initial step in getting off drugs. It makes it possible for a person to be in a supervised environment while they go through withdrawal symptoms for drugs and/or alcohol. There are various types of detoxification. Theyrange from drug-free to medically supervised. A widespread mistake that many addicts make is to think that detox is enough to kick their habit. This is almost never the case. All detox does is get an individual through the withdrawal when they stop using. It is usually recommended that detox be followed up with some type of treatment plan to learn the root of why an individual was using drugs in the first place.

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