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How Long Does It Take to Become Addicted to Cocaine? Heroine? Crystal Meth? Sources Would Be Great!?

Question by Stephen: How Long does it Take to become addicted to Cocaine? Heroine? Crystal Meth? Sources would be great!?
I’m doing a project on how addictive certain drugs are but I can’t seem to find anything with a timeline for how quickly peole become addicted. Sources would be greatly appreciated.

Best answer:

Answer by Baby Eater
Try them and let me know!

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Heroin Addiction: Why Is Marijuana, Cocaine, Meth and Heroin Illegal?

Question by psychosolodiver: Why is marijuana, cocaine, meth and heroin illegal?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to decriminalize it, tax it and regulate it like alcohol sales?

Notice when alcohol prohibition was repealed in 1933, the crime rate actually went down. Why wouldn’t that be true for other substances?
If making something illegal is suppose to prevent people from trying it, why hasn’t it worked?

Best answer:

Answer by Yihouy Bo
YES

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Heroin Addiction: Punjab battles heroin addiction



The prosperous northern Indian state of Punjab is in the grip of a worsening drug abuse crisis. It’s estimated more than half of all rural households are home to at least one drug addict, a problem most acute along the border with Pakistan.Duration: 02:16
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Which Drug Effects Your Physical Appearance Most After Abuse – Heroin, Cocaine, or Meth?

Question by Amelia: Which drug effects your physical appearance most after abuse – heroin, cocaine, or meth?
If you had a long term addiction to either one of these drugs, which one would change the the way you look physically the most?

Best answer:

Answer by Harrald
The Police Department in Portland, Oregon, recently posted online photographs of persons addicted to Meth. The facial changes caused by Meth were so revealing that family members of some of the users failed to recognize their kin. Meth ruins your teeth in fast order, but mostly, Meth dries-up the small capillaries that carry oxygen and blood to the facial skin. Another noticeable affect is that Meth abuse can burn-a-hole in your sinuses and separate cartlidge in your nose that separates the nostrils. More pictures of Meth users show how the facial muscles droop the eyelids, lips and jaw frame. It was noted by the Police Department that the drooping appears similar to patients who receive radiation treatments of the face to fight cancer. What was really strange was several families could not immediately recognize members of their families. Avoid Meth at all costs! Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in California have shown that an injectable solution that can reverse the affects of cocaine addictions. It may be several years before a vaccine is available to every one.

Heroin Addiction: Beating Heroin, Crack Cocaine and Other Addictions

Recently, I fielded two questions from members of my Yahoo group about helping with drug addiction. The first was about heroin addiction and the second was about crack cocaine addiction, both of which are two of the more difficult addictions to overcome, though I know from my two years as a volunteer at a drug and alcohol recovery program for young men and my own research that both can definitely be overcome.

Drug addiction is a pervasive problem that cuts across all areas of society and I a sure that many who read this have a family member or friend who is affected by this scourge. In the hopes that I might provide some help, I am sharing what I wrote in reply to the questions based on what I have learned and experienced.

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Vaccines for Heroin and Cocaine Addiction?

Heroin Addiction: Vaccines for heroin and cocaine addiction?
Chemist Kim Janda and a handful of other U.S. researchers have spent years working on shots that would help prevent drug addicts from relapsing, but the work has been slowed by disappointing results in some human tests and a lack of financial backing from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
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Heroin Addiction: Valley law enforcement agencies grapple with heroin resurgence
Marijuana isn’t always the “gateway drug” that leads to hard-core substance addiction. For some, it doesn’t begin to compare with what’s right there in the medicine cabinet.“Prescription drugs are one of the things that get kids hooked” and lead them to begin abusing heroin, said Naperville police Detective Shaun Ferguson. “When they realize they can pay much less for heroin than for …
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Heroin Addiction: Police: Couple Stashed Cocaine, Heroin in Motel Room

Heroin Addiction: Police: Couple Stashed Cocaine, Heroin in Motel Room
A husband and wife were arrested Thursday after police found cocaine, heroin and syringes in their room at the Econolodge Inn & Suites on Boston Post Rd, police said.
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Heroin Addiction: Former archbishop’s grandson died of heroin overdose
Dr George Carey’s grandson died of heroin overdose, inquest hears.
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