You are ready to quit, to put down the “dope,” to stop putting powerful and dangerous chemicals into your body. If you’re ready to quit drugs, it often comes down to far more than simply saying “I want to quit.” Yes, that is incredibly important and powerful! However, most strong drugs out there require professional help from doctors and detox centers.
So what can you expect in terms of withdrawal? If you don’t know, usually powerful drugs like painkillers or cocaine where you have a heavy dependence require the help of a detox center. Some don’t always require it, and it’s a personal family decision, but it’s always best to be safe and go to a doctor if you trying to come off painkillers and anti-anxiety medications.
Asking for medical help isn’t a weakness, because drug addiction is a serious affair. It’s also nothing to be ashamed of. What should you expect in terms of withdrawal? This guide goes over major drugs you may need help with.
Withdrawal Symptoms of Major Drugs:
Cocaine: Cocaine is such a powerful drug that it often takes professional help to come off from. The incredible highs, followed by incredible lows, can take you to a point near suicidal or completely manic. According to studies, you will often experience agitation, insomnia, anxiety, depression, fatigue, shakes, and many other states of high and low.
Heroin: While not as popular in some forms as cocaine, heroin isn’t something to be played with, as it’s one of the most addictive street drugs available. You can expect problems with body functions like watery eyes and stomach aches, as well as major mental problems like panic and anxiety.
Oxycontin: Like many painkiller drugs, Oxycontin numbs your senses. Its effects on the body are highly addictive too. You can expect extreme cravings, fatigue, hot and cold sweats, insomnia, and depression.
This brief list offers the common withdrawal symptons different forms of drugs have. There are, as you can see, many clear distinctions between them—but also similarities. Highs and lows, feelings of mania and panic—are all common to drug abusers. If you try to beat all of this on your own, you will likely not only go through a struggle mentally, but face major health problems. It’s simple: you’re dependent on the drugs physically, and you risk death by not getting professional help. On more positive note, there are thousands of clinics across the country who can help you. Once you get out, the support of family and friends is crucial in defeating drug addiction once and for all.
I’m sorry, but everything on this website is a complete lie, as you can tell from the complete lack of evidence on your website, and straight fact feeding from “stoners”. Quit embarrassing yourself and take this site down. Also, I think that 95 percent is not all of these “addiction” posts are from you.
honestly it’s not that bad of a drug I dont abuse it but when I smoke marijuana it’s just like a load of crap is lifted off of your back and your relaxed nothing more nothing less and some brain cell lose but it’s not paralyzing me in anyway.
Regarding the above comment that says marijuana kills brain cells: Most drugs, with a few exceptions such as inhalants, certain amphetamines, and possibly dissociatives, do not cause brain cells to die. Drugs work by temporarily changing brain chemistry. This is done by moving around chemicals (neurotransmitters), not by killing brain cells.
Regarding the above comments,
Marijuana doesn’t kill brain cells. Your brain produces (THC) naturally, whether you smoke pot or not.
and THC is the active ingredient in Cannabis. It affects your neurotransmitters, but doesn’t kill your brain cells in anyway.
This article is called “The Dangers of Withdrawal After Drug Abuse”
Where is the withdrawal information on marijuana?
If any, compare them to Cocaine,heroin, and even coffee.
You can go through withdrawal if you were addicted to caffeine, and even overdose on it. In my opinion, Marijuana helps with the healing process from major drugs. It is a herbal medicine that is even made into a pill and sold on the market in the U.S. research marinol or dronabinol.
The effective dose of THC is at least 1000 times lower than the estimated lethal dose (a “safety ratio” of 1000:1). This is much higher than alcohol (safety ratio of 10), cocaine (15), or heroin (6).[18]
ADMIN—-You cannot have withdrawal without drug dependency. And drug dependency means you cannot function without the drug. But you are right, I am not high right now and i cant do my normal activities!!! im gonna go insane!!!!!! oh wait…no im fine.
Why must you lie to the people that you claim are trying to help?
Where’s the list of withdrawl effects from quitting pot??? I don’t see any… I wonder why that is…
ADMIN is a *******….
ADMIN- still waiting for a reply on why you are lying to the people you claim to help.
Just read all of these posts, clearly us “addicts” know more than you do. Want to know why? Because unlike drug users, we research what we put into our body. thats more than any alcoholic, herion, etc, user can say.
again, why must you lie to the people you claim to help?
Gftiz,
What the heck are you saying? I think you’re stating that because there is no psychical dependence/withdrawal to marijuana it’s not addictive? What about cigarettes? Do they have any major withdrawal symptoms? No, but I think everyone can agree that they are addictive.
You stated: “You cannot have withdrawal without drug dependency. And drug dependency means you cannot function without the drug.”
Are you saying that if I was addicted to cocaine and stopped using it for one day that I could not function at all? (Which would not be true.) I think you need to go back and look up the definition of drug dependency.
Actually, cigarettes DO have withdrawal symptoms. Ask anybody who’s tried to quit. Cannabis does, in fact, have withdrawal symptoms, however they are amongst the mildest, if not THE mildest, of any withdrawal symptoms. Cannabis withdrawal symptoms include loss of appetite, insomnia, boredom, and, sometimes, irritability. Symptoms usually last from a couple days to a week. The vast majority of people who use cannabis have absolutely no trouble quitting at any given moment. And the “If it’s so easy, why don’t you do it right now?” argument is invalid. Why should someone deny themselves a pleasure just to prove to some schmuck who thinks they’re an addict that they can?
I’ve been looking around this website for some time now and after much observation I have come to realize something… I believe it is secretly helping to promote the legalization. This site is cleverly advertised on 420.com which is obviously a site for pot smokers, passionate ones at that. Those people see “saynottopot.com” and want to see whats its about. Next they read the posts and cant help but to comment on it. Then you have all of these people who are smoking pot on your website and each one has different knowledge and reasoning behind legalization about it that they get to share. I mean just look at it! Almost every comment is by someone who thinks that marijuana should be legalized. Every pot smoker that leaves this site a little upset about what they read in the articles, maybe even enough to become an activist bringing us that much closer to the inevitable legalization of Marijuana. Thank you saynotopot.com
I find is amusing that when obviously gfitz and others were talking about pot on a site like this all the admin can do is try and deflect the conversation away from pot but bringing up easy distractors like cigarettes or the hard drugs. The next time you put your foot down admin I recommend not doing so in your own BS.
i LOVE how you don’t even attempt to cite marijuana as having side effects….Get a life you DEA high class hustler scum…….We know what you guys are really up to, ever seen American Gangster??? Thats simply what they did in the 70’s and those where just the guys who couldn’t get away….The DEA is in many ways worse than enron, at least everyone knows they got f@ked by them, suckers still think the DEA is for our protection…..Yet I personally have been falsley imprisoned by violence, tazed beaten, all for trying to get a hotel room, dizzy from a tire blow out……They said I was simulating intoxication, BS…..lucky my case didn’t go through from their cover-up….SH@T EATING bottom feeding programmers like you should just quite this crappy job on principle.