Symptoms of withdrawal generally include but are not limited to anxiety, irritability, intense cravings for the substance, nausea, hallucinations, headaches, cold sweats, and tremors.... "The physical side effects from chronic smoking of cocaine include coughing up blood, bronchospasm, itching, fever, diffuse alveolar infiltrates without effusions, pulmonary and systemic eosinophilia, chest pain, lung trauma, sore throat, asthma, hoarse voice, dyspnea (shortness of breath), and an aching, flu-like syndrome. Cocaine constricts blood vessels, dilates pupils, and increases body temperature, ...

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Other symptoms of withdraw include anxiety, backache, joint pain, weakness, abdominal cramps, insomnia, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, or an increase in blood pressure, respiratory rate and heart rate ("OxyContin,"" 2539). Overdoses on the drug can be manifested by respiratory depression, somnolence progressing to stupor or coma, cold and clammy skin, hypotension, bradycardia and death ("OxyContin,"" 2540). ... Death from fatal respiratory depression can happen, but some of the more common reasons abusers die are from injecting the drug, infection and blood clots from the pill partic...

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Billie Holiday once said, "In this country, don't forget, a habit (addiction) is no damn private hell. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country, it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you." Although Holiday was not speaking directly about children, her words surely describe th...

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You heart sinks and a cold feeling takes over because when you look closer your innocent angel is about to land on a used syringe. ... Syringe exchange program use can be an important component in reducing the spread of blood-borne infectious diseases among high-risk injection drug users....

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