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Question by Mag: I was told my friend killed him self with xannax.?
Is it possible that he took to many and they killed him? I was told they would put a person in a coma.

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Answer by Bill
I suppose it’s possible to kill oneself by taking too many of any drug.

Answer by DR + Mrs Bears face
It just goes to show you can’t believe everything you are told.

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Question by Sarah: Please help me. Severely depressed getting off suboxone and just want to die and I need help bad?
I am going to start off by saying I am a 30 year old female. I was in a bad car wreck at the age of 16 and got prescribed vicidon and then they prescribed me oxy’s. Well, I started abusing them because I felt really good on them and didn’t know what addiction was and that it could even happen to me. Well, at the age of 18, I got on methadone and was on it for almost 12 years of my life. When getting off of it, I just wanted to kill myself. Nothing was that harsh in my life. I would have rather went through labor pains and have a baby every day then go through that(no joke). After quitting methadone and not doing anything for 2 months, I got on suboxone because I couldn’t function. Taking a five minute bath took an hour because I had no energy to pull myself out of it. It was horrible.    Read more...

Question by michael D: How long do the effects of Heroin and Methadone last? ?
Just wondering how long these drugs last…when I go to pick up my meds from the drug store, I see all the meth heads sucking back their concoction…it must provide them with a days worth of relief…Does anyone have the answers to both of these highly addictive substances? Just curious Is all.. Only serious answers please…

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Answer by rmh12311985
One of the most commonly voiced concerns is that MMT (methadone maintenance treatment) is “just trading one addiction for another”. Many feel that the only way to truly recover from addiction is to abstain from all mood altering substances. However, science has discovered that with long term opiate addiction, the brain’s natural production of endorphins is shut down. Endorphins are the chemicals we all have that enable us to feel pleasure and happiness. We all have opiate receptors in our brains for these chemicals to attach to. The word “endorphin” comes from “endogenous”, meaning coming from within, and “morphine”–i.e., morphine from within. These chemicals are released when we eat delicious food, make love, enjoy a beautiful sunset, exercise (runner’s high), or even when we are injured, as natural painkillers. Without this natural chemical, life can be very difficult and painful.    Read more...

New York Times Misses Mark on Buprenorphine Drug
In a lengthy front page story called: "Addiction Treatment with a Dark Side," The New York Times recently drew attention to buprenorphine, a medication used to treat addiction to heroin and prescription opioids. As physicians and … over the past …
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Practice tips for opioid prescribing
Evidence suggests that the risk for accidental overdose increases an estimated 1.9- to 3.1-fold with doses of 50- to 100-mg morphine equivalents, and even more dramatically with doses above 200 mg. Another strategy is to avoid prescribing methadone …
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Question by vickidk3: what do pain killers do if you take too many?
i’ve always wondered that, does it get you high or something?

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Answer by Just Another Guy
Drugs called “opioids” are frequently prescribed to relieve pain, but if abused they can kill. Over the past 15 years, sales of opioid pain killers, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone and fentanyl, have increased, and deaths from these drugs have increased in parallel.

Ninety-five percent of unintentional poisoning deaths are drug overdoses; in recent years, prescription-drug overdoses have overtaken cocaine and heroin overdoses as the leading cause of poisoning deaths, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. In fact, a recent spike in prescription-drug overdoses is the cause of the first increase in the nation’s injury death rate in 25 years, according to CDC injury-prevention expert Len Paulozzi.    Read more...