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  • Drug Overdose Facts
  • In 2010, the number of first time non-medical users of prescription pain relievers in the U.S. was 2.0 million.
  • Overdose deaths can be intentional or unintentional, and they can result from both licit and illicit drug abuse. Drugs commonly implicated in overdose deaths are alcohol, psychoactive medications, analgesics, illicit drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and multiple drugs taken concomitantly.
  • Commonly abused classes of prescription drugs include opioids (for pain), central nervous system depressants (for anxiety and sleep disorders), and stimulants (for ADHD and narcolepsy).
  • Extremely high doses individuals who use amphetamines may experience flushing, pallor, very rapid or irregular heartbeat, tremors, loss of coordination, and collapse.
  • 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.
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Detox for Methadone

Methadone detoxification is a process which should be supervised by addiction professionals within a drug rehabilitation program who realize how challenging and difficult methadone detoxification can be. Methadone detox is known to be far more serious in terms of symptoms and duration than even heroin detox, and individuals often revert back to methadone to ease withdrawal symptoms or, worse yet, turn to heroin or prescription opioids to alleviate symptoms. This is why methadone detox must only be done under close supervision at a drug rehab program which has experience in dealing with this type of detox, and where the person can receive additional recovery services to address all addiction issues.

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