Cannabinoid Helps Drug Withdrawals: Study
Cannabinoid helps drug withdrawals: study
Cannabis withdrawal symptoms are not life-threatening, or as severe as those seen in heroin users, but include depression, cannabis cravings and sleep problems. Fifty-one patients from the South Eastern Sydney and Hunter New England health districts …
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Popping Xanax is more harmful than you think
Says Dr. Stuart Gitlow, an addiction psychiatrist and president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, "Withdrawal from benzos can be more dangerous than withdrawal from heroin." Those risks are very real for women; an estimated 32.5 million …
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Man sentenced for fatal painkiller patch death
The district attorney's office said Barnes was a heroin addict and had illegally obtained the Fentanyl, a strong opiate-based painkiller sometimes used by addicts to relieve their withdrawal symptoms. Miller, 36, was not a drug addict, but Barnes gave …
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