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Question by pokawawa: What does the cold tukey mean in the phrase “quitting cold turkey” ?

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Answer by Cait
It means just cutting it out of your life, abruptly. Like a smoker for example. I f a smoker quits cold turkey, that means that he didn’t just cut back on cigarettes a little bit, he just stopped smoking them altogether.

Hope this helps! Good Luck! 😀

Answer by callmebillybob
It means to just all of a sudden stop.

The deadly war on e-cigarettes
Cigarettes continue to kill a half-million Americans every year while holding 100-fold that number in addiction's deadly grasp. Yet a perverse … Shortly after the Food and Drug Administration got authority over tobacco products in 2009, the agency …
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Question by stoopid6: What are some heroin detox alternatives?
I have a friend that is addicted and wants to detox but he works and cannot go into a hospital to detox. He has tried cold turkey and cannot do that either. He previously was in a methadone program but doesn’t want to go back there because they keep the addicts on methadone for a very long time. Sometimes more than a year. I’ve heard there is a drug he could take for a few days that will take away the withdrawal symptoms but I don’t know the name or where he would go to get it.

Please help me help him. Thanks.

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Question by davi: Where did the saying “going cold turkey” come from?
heard it on tv and i know what it means and all but where did it originate from?
lol just wondering

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Answer by Bree M.
no i dea

Answer by Nyctophobia
idk
but i prefer hot, juicy turkey on thanksgiving
not cold turkey

What professionals say about pain pills and addiction
Iowa Medical Examiner Julia Goodin said her office has seen a startling increase in drug-overdose deaths over the past few years. Many involve … Filippelli defends it as a common-sense way to treat people who can't just quit drugs cold turkey …
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Heroin bills seek to prosecute, medicate
Because people couldn't get their prescriptions, they turned to heroin. Wilson said he is more skeptical about HB 332 because heroin addiction is difficult to overcome. “Quitting cold turkey can be life-threatening,” he said. An amendment to HB 332 …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment NPR The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. They gave him an IV flush, and sent him home. Marchese, then 26, and his sister called multiple inpatient clinics only to be told: We have no beds. and more »

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times

Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal Bucks County Courier Times … heroin withdrawal By Jo Ciavaglia Staff writer Bucks County Courier Times. A 49-year-old Bensalem woman found dead inside her Bucks County prison cell suffered sudden cardiac death during heroin detoxification, according to the Bucks County coroner. and more »

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation – Business Insider    Read more...

Question by Laina: Help with opiate withdrawals , OTC meds only!?
I’m trying to quit cold turkey here (no methadone, no bupes). I am not a crazy drug addict or anything. I have just been taking Norco/Lorcet (depending on which of my two doctors I go to) for around 4 years. I’m tired of feeling worried and anxious when I run out, which I always do. Not because of abuse, but because of the doctor’s instructions on taking it and how often he/she will prescribe it. Norco is supposed to last two weeks, which is does, but I cannot afford to go to my doctor every two weeks. Lorcet lasts longer, since it has less dosages, but it is even worse. I run out, but I am scripted THIS by my OBGYN (I have very bad endometriosis) and she charges insane prices just to have her check out my female parts and write a prescription. Hundreds of dollars for a few minutes of uncomfortable examination and a script.    Read more...

New Study Links Marijuana to Two Deaths–Suncoast Rehab Center Cites …
Strickling points out that side effects from prescription drugs and withdrawal symptoms often cause other medications and drugs to be prescribed and consumed to combat the ill effects and feelings caused by the original medications/drugs. "It's highly …
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Two men found guilty in 2012 overdose death of Marshfield woman
Trenton J. Blume, 24, currently in Dodge Correctional Institute, Waupun, and Justin J. Drinka, 23, Marshfield, both pleaded no contest to being a party to the crime of first-degree reckless homicide by the delivery of heroin in the death of Kayla …
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Painkillers and heroin; on the road to addiction
I went cold turkey off a moderate dosage of methadone without help, therapy or other drugs. I was in withdrawal for one year. If I had stayed in the Seacoast area, I may have never broken the bonds of methadone dependence. I had unknowingly moved to a …
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