What Is the Best Way to Get Off Opioid Drugs?
Question by fran g: What is the best way to get off opioid drugs?
I have a relative who after 15 years of drug addiction is still unable to kick the habit. He began by using heroin, then got into methadone treatment, then into methadose treatment and is currently taking anti-anxiety medication.
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Answer by Doc
You should ask a doctor, we are ordinary people. So… methadone maintenance, a little morphine, to narcotics, then taper off, then none.
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What Are the Adverse Side Effects of Taking Too Much Coricidin?
Question by Speshul Ed: What are the adverse side effects of taking too much Coricidin?
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You die
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