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What drug other than methadone do they use to detox from heroin addiction and are they safe.?
Jan 30th
Question by nkittty: What drug other than methadone do they use to detox from heroin addiction and are they safe.?
Looking for a more personal less addictive drug to help with a heroin addiction tried methadone for two years stayed clean for one year after methadone, and don’t wont to go cold turkey cuz I have two small children to take care of. Not your average addict I haven’t hit the hardcore junkie phase and dont want too. The reality is I’m a functional junkie if there is such a thing. I have contacted NA but that just going to help the mental part of the addiction now I need Help with the physical discomforts. Don’t get me wrong I’m realistic to the pain thatI will go through just want to know more about the new drugs that are avalible and more short term.
Thank you for any advice Its nice to know people take time out their busy lives to support others in their time of crisis.
No matter what it will take I will ovewrcome this addiction because i know first and for most I’m worth it plus my husband and two beautiful boys are supporting me 100%.
Best answer:
Answer by Sowht F
Suboxone
(buprenorphine HCI/haloxone HCI dihydrate)
Many report it is a “miracle” drug that effectively helps people, who truly are ready to help themselves.
Go to the links below. The first is the medical information site.
The other links are to forum that may help you in your decisions.
Good luck.
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Why do you think most college students regard binge drinking as a normal rather than deviant behavior?
Jan 27th
Question by KCMO girl: Why do you think most college students regard binge drinking as a normal rather than deviant behavior?
Which do you think would be more effective in stopping binge drinking on a campus, informal or formal social control and why?
This is strictly speaking from a sociological perspective
Best answer:
Answer by Nile Dave
It is to do with their social surrounding and the sub-culture they are in. A sub-culture is a group within a culture that shares some of the values with the wider culture but with distinct differences. The fact that most citizens find binge drinking to be deviant means that it goes against their social norm, it is considered to be an odd behaviour. The fact that most college students (generalising) binge drink means that it is within their norm (normal behaviour) due to their sub-culture and find it normal and not deviant. This also works in the converse, if you went to a party and didn’t drink, it would go against the social norm and you would look odd. People who are deviant are labelled (Becker 1976).
Informal social control – if you stuck posters on a wall and made new legislation’s for the campus then would everyone follow? The fact that everyone is binge drinking in the first place and being deviant indicates that a different informal approach is needed to influence their behaviour and change their perception. Whilst one-to-one shock sessions may work, it is too expensive and time consuming to do so a informal means needed. Maybe getting some of the leaders of a social group to not drink or to start a charity campaign — like give money to charity instead to alcohol would help as it affects people on a deeper level, but definitely informal social control as this is the most persuasive technique to affect social norms.As more people not drink, it adds pressure to those that do and leads to anxiety and pressure (Holmes and Rahe 1976) and they will be considered deviant.
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Is black tar heroin a cleaner drug than painkillers like oxycontin and roxicet?
Jan 2nd
Question by trey: Is black tar heroin a cleaner drug than painkillers like oxycontin and roxicet?
I have a few friends who have been using heroin for months , or even years.They smoke it,they do not shoot it up or snort it.
They are telling me that black tar heroin is one of the least harmful drugs of all the drugs out there,such as meth,cigarettes and crack.
While it is still harmful of course,they tell me is isnt near as much as man-made opiates such as hydrocodone,oxycodone,contin and roxicet etc..
Is this true? Or are they just telling me this to “ease” the idea of them being a junkie?
Best answer:
Answer by ToxLabRat
In one aspect they are correct, however it is not specific to just heroin. All opioid agonists (which is the class of drugs that heroin, oxycodone, hydroconde, etc. fall into) are some of the least harmful on the body from a chemical standpoint. Many heroin and opiate addicts can live well into their golden years. One of the main reasons for this is tolerance build up. When you look at a drug like cocaine for instance, you could take one person who had never taken cocaine in their entire life and have them snort one line of the drug. That high will only last for a matter of minutes due to the short half-life elimination. So, with that being said, a high that lasts mere minutes already makes that drug much more dangerous in respect to an opiate, as the good majority of opiates give a systemic effect that lasts for hours. The other thing to consider is when still examining that theoretical individual who just did their first line of cocaine, when they do come down from that high, then the next time they use the drug, it will take close to double the amount to get the same effect as before, and then the next time it will take double that second dose, and on and on and one, until eventually their heart just cannot take it anymore.
Opiates which are not mixed with any other amplifying agent (like tylenol or ibuprofen) are pretty harmless to the main internal organ groups. So, as long as the person is not using dirty needles or does not take too large of a dose at once (due to not understanding their limitations), then the risk to their physical health is much less than those on other drugs such as crystal meth and cocaine, even alcohol. Now it does not eliminate the psych issues that can plague drug users. It also does not account for the case of quality control issues, as since heroin is an illegal street drug, you are not getting this stuff from FDA regulated manufacturing facilities where process controls are in place to reduce the risk for bad batches of drugs. So if you get your hands on some heroin that was made in a toxic environment, by someone not experienced in the extraction and refinement processes then you could run a risk for ingesting product which is laced with toxic components, and in that case it would be those components that would put you in harm’s way and not so much the opioid agonist itself.
Now in comparison to heroin being a cleaner or higher quality drug than oxycodone or hydrocone or any other Rx drug, then that is absurd (unless you are buying these Rx drugs overseas where the quality control programs and regulatory compliance programs are poor or nonexistent). All Rx and even OTC drugs are regulated very strongly by the FDA. The facilities that manufacture these drugs are audited by the FDA routinely, they are bound to test every single batch of the products they produce to make sure that all QC parameters are in acceptable ranges thus ensuring that they are not putting an adulterated product on the shelves. As I stated before, heroin is not typically produced in legal drug manufacturing facilities and therefore you could be getting the stuff from someone who is growing the poppy flowers in contaminated soil, performing the extraction process in dirty equipment which is probably old, rusty and coated with all kinds of toxic impurities. Also it is typically being done by someone who knows next to nothing about chemistry or drug development.
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Is dedicating ones life to religion worse than dedicating ones life to drug addiction?
Sep 23rd
Question by Desiree: Is dedicating ones life to religion worse than dedicating ones life to drug addiction?
Drug addiction typically only causes damage to one person’s life – the drug addict. But religion causes damage to not just the religion addict but to almost everyone they contact throughout their life, especially their children, right? So in most cases, it would be better for humanity if religious people lived their lives in a drug induced haze rather than to have them screwing up their children’s minds, spreading their ridiculous beliefs to other people and voting for corrupt politicians who use religion to gain power, right?
Best answer:
Answer by Atheist Friend
Depends on the drug. 
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Is Nicotine more addictive than heroin?
Aug 13th
Question by Angel: Is Nicotine more addictive than heroin?
I have heard that this is so. Which I find hard to believe. I was a smoker for many years, and gave up cold turkey. I haven’t had a smoke for several weeks, and don’t feel like one.
If it is more addictive than heroin, why are there so many junkies?
Does anybody have any facts?
Best answer:
Answer by thats_tops_aussie
Smoking is habit, heroin is an addiction.
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Home Remedies For Dry Skin: Some of Them Are More Than Old Wives’ Tales, as Fuller Brush Knows
Jan 6th
“So what home remedies for dry skin would you recommend?” Natasha asked Charlie, as she padded out of her bedroom holding a Fuller Brush toothbrush in her hand. “I mean, they’re all nuts, right? Old wives’ tales if you ask me.”
Charlie shrugged.
“There’s a ring of truth to the ones that are still around today,” he insisted.
His roommate stepped towards him and poked him in the chest as she responded:
“They’re all hoopla, my friend!”
“Hoopla?” he responded.
“They’re all marketing gimmicks. The best anti-wrinkle creams – if you ask me, and you didn’t – but the best anti-wrinkle creams on the market are actually sold as hemorrhoid creams.”
“Hemorrhoid creams?” he repeated, wrinkling his own face.
“You gotcha!” Natasha poked him once more for good measure.
“Alright, first of all, what did I tell you about personal space?” Charlie asked her. “You cannot flirt with me and give me the impression that you like me – as you usually do – because it hurts me right here.” He touched his chest.
She took a theatrical step back, and looked down at her tee shirt and legs as if making sure she was not invading his space. Then she pointed to the gap between her eyebrows.
“Look,” she said, and he saw the patch of dry skin. “How do I fix this without using one of your stupid home remedies for dry skin?”
“You and me have known each other since when? Middle school?” Charlie asked her.
She nodded, adding: “And then some.”
“And then some. And have I ever given you bad advice?”
She pouted and shook her head.
“I’ve never steered you wrong, right?”
“No, Charlie. But what are you going to give me to clear up my dry skin?”
“Witch hazel lotion,” he declared. He pulled open the bathroom door and she followed him in. He opened the cabinet above the sink and took out the container of Fuller Brush lotion.
“Witch hazel!” she shrieked, and she then cackled like a witch. “It even sounds like something out of the seventeenth century!”
“A lot of these so-called home remedies, as you call them,” Charlie began. “You take Saint John’s Wort, or Valerian root, or lavender – take your pick, Tash – these are still popular today because they actually work. Now I’m not some dippy hippy, alright? I’m not a member of the yogurt mad bean curd brigade.”
She laughed.
“I work a nine to five job,” he continued. “…where I have to be clean shaven. I have to shave every day, and one of those home remedies for dry skin that you baulk at is this Fuller Brush witch hazel lotion. Just try it, alright?”
She looked at him in the mirror, put his arms around his shoulders and smiled. They looked at each other’s reflections.
“Alright, I’ll give it a go.”
“Tash, you’re breaking my heart here.”
“Huh?” She looked at him in the mirror.
“Personal space?”
She pecked him on the cheek.
“You love it really,” she said.
Home Remedies For Dry Skin: Some of Them Are More Than Old Wives’ Tales, as Fuller Brush Knows
Jan 5th
“So what home remedies for dry skin would you recommend?” Natasha asked Charlie, as she padded out of her bedroom holding a Fuller Brush toothbrush in her hand. “I mean, they’re all nuts, right? Old wives’ tales if you ask me.”
Charlie shrugged.
“There’s a ring of truth to the ones that are still around today,” he insisted.
His roommate stepped towards him and poked him in the chest as she responded:
“They’re all hoopla, my friend!”
“Hoopla?” he responded.
“They’re all marketing gimmicks. The best anti-wrinkle creams – if you ask me, and you didn’t – but the best anti-wrinkle creams on the market are actually sold as hemorrhoid creams.”
“Hemorrhoid creams?” he repeated, wrinkling his own face.
“You gotcha!” Natasha poked him once more for good measure.
“Alright, first of all, what did I tell you about personal space?” Charlie asked her. “You cannot flirt with me and give me the impression that you like me – as you usually do – because it hurts me right here.” He touched his chest.
She took a theatrical step back, and looked down at her tee shirt and legs as if making sure she was not invading his space. Then she pointed to the gap between her eyebrows.
“Look,” she said, and he saw the patch of dry skin. “How do I fix this without using one of your stupid home remedies for dry skin?”
“You and me have known each other since when? Middle school?” Charlie asked her.
She nodded, adding: “And then some.”
“And then some. And have I ever given you bad advice?”
She pouted and shook her head.
“I’ve never steered you wrong, right?”
“No, Charlie. But what are you going to give me to clear up my dry skin?”
“Witch hazel lotion,” he declared. He pulled open the bathroom door and she followed him in. He opened the cabinet above the sink and took out the container of Fuller Brush lotion.
“Witch hazel!” she shrieked, and she then cackled like a witch. “It even sounds like something out of the seventeenth century!”
“A lot of these so-called home remedies, as you call them,” Charlie began. “You take Saint John’s Wort, or Valerian root, or lavender – take your pick, Tash – these are still popular today because they actually work. Now I’m not some dippy hippy, alright? I’m not a member of the yogurt mad bean curd brigade.”
She laughed.
“I work a nine to five job,” he continued. “…where I have to be clean shaven. I have to shave every day, and one of those home remedies for dry skin that you baulk at is this Fuller Brush witch hazel lotion. Just try it, alright?”
She looked at him in the mirror, put his arms around his shoulders and smiled. They looked at each other’s reflections.
“Alright, I’ll give it a go.”
“Tash, you’re breaking my heart here.”
“Huh?” She looked at him in the mirror.
“Personal space?”
She pecked him on the cheek.
“You love it really,” she said.
Home Remedies For Dry Skin: Some of Them Are More Than Old Wives’ Tales, as Fuller Brush Knows
Jan 5th
“So what home remedies for dry skin would you recommend?” Natasha asked Charlie, as she padded out of her bedroom holding a Fuller Brush toothbrush in her hand. “I mean, they’re all nuts, right? Old wives’ tales if you ask me.”
Charlie shrugged.
“There’s a ring of truth to the ones that are still around today,” he insisted.
His roommate stepped towards him and poked him in the chest as she responded:
“They’re all hoopla, my friend!”
“Hoopla?” he responded.
“They’re all marketing gimmicks. The best anti-wrinkle creams – if you ask me, and you didn’t – but the best anti-wrinkle creams on the market are actually sold as hemorrhoid creams.”
“Hemorrhoid creams?” he repeated, wrinkling his own face.
“You gotcha!” Natasha poked him once more for good measure.
“Alright, first of all, what did I tell you about personal space?” Charlie asked her. “You cannot flirt with me and give me the impression that you like me – as you usually do – because it hurts me right here.” He touched his chest.
She took a theatrical step back, and looked down at her tee shirt and legs as if making sure she was not invading his space. Then she pointed to the gap between her eyebrows.
“Look,” she said, and he saw the patch of dry skin. “How do I fix this without using one of your stupid home remedies for dry skin?”
“You and me have known each other since when? Middle school?” Charlie asked her.
She nodded, adding: “And then some.”
“And then some. And have I ever given you bad advice?”
She pouted and shook her head.
“I’ve never steered you wrong, right?”
“No, Charlie. But what are you going to give me to clear up my dry skin?”
“Witch hazel lotion,” he declared. He pulled open the bathroom door and she followed him in. He opened the cabinet above the sink and took out the container of Fuller Brush lotion.
“Witch hazel!” she shrieked, and she then cackled like a witch. “It even sounds like something out of the seventeenth century!”
“A lot of these so-called home remedies, as you call them,” Charlie began. “You take Saint John’s Wort, or Valerian root, or lavender – take your pick, Tash – these are still popular today because they actually work. Now I’m not some dippy hippy, alright? I’m not a member of the yogurt mad bean curd brigade.”
She laughed.
“I work a nine to five job,” he continued. “…where I have to be clean shaven. I have to shave every day, and one of those home remedies for dry skin that you baulk at is this Fuller Brush witch hazel lotion. Just try it, alright?”
She looked at him in the mirror, put his arms around his shoulders and smiled. They looked at each other’s reflections.
“Alright, I’ll give it a go.”
“Tash, you’re breaking my heart here.”
“Huh?” She looked at him in the mirror.
“Personal space?”
She pecked him on the cheek.
“You love it really,” she said.
Home Remedies For Dry Skin: Some of Them Are More Than Old Wives’ Tales, as Fuller Brush Knows
Jan 4th
“So what home remedies for dry skin would you recommend?” Natasha asked Charlie, as she padded out of her bedroom holding a Fuller Brush toothbrush in her hand. “I mean, they’re all nuts, right? Old wives’ tales if you ask me.”
Charlie shrugged.
“There’s a ring of truth to the ones that are still around today,” he insisted.
His roommate stepped towards him and poked him in the chest as she responded:
“They’re all hoopla, my friend!”
“Hoopla?” he responded.
“They’re all marketing gimmicks. The best anti-wrinkle creams – if you ask me, and you didn’t – but the best anti-wrinkle creams on the market are actually sold as hemorrhoid creams.”
“Hemorrhoid creams?” he repeated, wrinkling his own face.
“You gotcha!” Natasha poked him once more for good measure.
“Alright, first of all, what did I tell you about personal space?” Charlie asked her. “You cannot flirt with me and give me the impression that you like me – as you usually do – because it hurts me right here.” He touched his chest.
She took a theatrical step back, and looked down at her tee shirt and legs as if making sure she was not invading his space. Then she pointed to the gap between her eyebrows.
“Look,” she said, and he saw the patch of dry skin. “How do I fix this without using one of your stupid home remedies for dry skin?”
“You and me have known each other since when? Middle school?” Charlie asked her.
She nodded, adding: “And then some.”
“And then some. And have I ever given you bad advice?”
She pouted and shook her head.
“I’ve never steered you wrong, right?”
“No, Charlie. But what are you going to give me to clear up my dry skin?”
“Witch hazel lotion,” he declared. He pulled open the bathroom door and she followed him in. He opened the cabinet above the sink and took out the container of Fuller Brush lotion.
“Witch hazel!” she shrieked, and she then cackled like a witch. “It even sounds like something out of the seventeenth century!”
“A lot of these so-called home remedies, as you call them,” Charlie began. “You take Saint John’s Wort, or Valerian root, or lavender – take your pick, Tash – these are still popular today because they actually work. Now I’m not some dippy hippy, alright? I’m not a member of the yogurt mad bean curd brigade.”
She laughed.
“I work a nine to five job,” he continued. “…where I have to be clean shaven. I have to shave every day, and one of those home remedies for dry skin that you baulk at is this Fuller Brush witch hazel lotion. Just try it, alright?”
She looked at him in the mirror, put his arms around his shoulders and smiled. They looked at each other’s reflections.
“Alright, I’ll give it a go.”
“Tash, you’re breaking my heart here.”
“Huh?” She looked at him in the mirror.
“Personal space?”
She pecked him on the cheek.
“You love it really,” she said.
