Drug Detox and Withdrawal

Drug Addiction is an issue with many consequences, one of them being, drug withdrawal symptoms experienced when an addictive drug is abruptly discontinued. These symptoms of drug Withdrawal at times may be severe, if not life threatening. In this Website you will find information pertaining to locating the appropriate addiction treatment center for a safe drug detox to help minimize drug withdrawal and their symptoms. Drug withdrawal can be extremely uncomfortable without proffessional help.

Drug Withdrawal has many variables. Everything from the type of drug, quantity of regular use, to the length of time a drug is abused, factors into how intense or mild an individuals drug withdrawal experience will be. As mentioned, the type of drug used plays an important part in determining the length and severity of drug withdrawal symptoms. An example would be withdrawal from methadone; an individual who uses methadone over a period of several months to years and decides to discontinue use will experience a longer and more painful Withdrawal than an individual who discontinues using heroin.

Another factor to be aware of during Withdrawal is drug craving. Drug craving is the result of the drug's imprinting in the memory, a pleasant association of euphoria with the drug. The subconscious memory then motivates the individual to seek this drug because of the false imprint. The brain, in effect, has been trained that using the drug is the fastest way to feel good. Due to the extreme physiological or physical pain some experience during Drug Withdrawal they can Relapse before they complete the withdrawal process. This is an important reason that Drug Withdrawal should take place at an inpatient addiction treatment center. There the individual will be removed from the immediate access to drugs or alcohol .Drug Withdrawal done at an inpatient addiction treatment center also provides the safety of medical supervision by trained professionals who are better able to monitor the Drug Withdrawal process.

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In North Dakota, an estimated 60% of the male prison population are meth users. 80- 90% of the female prison population were incarcerated for meth related offenses.

In more hopeful news, a recent survey of high school juniors and seniors found that 78% felt that heroin was "too great a risk" to try.

The cultivation of opium in Afghanistan reached its peak in 1999, when 225,000 acres - 350 square miles - of poppies were sown. The following year the Taliban banned poppy cultivation, a move which cut production by 94 per cent. By 2001 only 30 square miles of land was in use for growing opium poppies. A year later, after American and British troops had removed the Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under cultivation leapt back to 285 square miles, with Afghanistan supplanting Burma to become the world's largest opium producer once more.

In 1988, about 300,000 infants were born addicted to cocaine.

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