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Symptoms

Decreased desire to work, inattentiveness, extreme drowsiness, frequent mood swings, loss of appetite, and restlessness.

Prolonged use may result in damage to cells and chromosomes; male sterility; respiratory organs, liver, kidney damage; and cancer.

Withdrawal symptoms include insomnia, headache, diarrhea, sensitivity to light and noise, hot and cold flashes, sweating, deep depression, irritability, disorientation, and irrational thinking.

Causes

There are legal drugs, called medicinal drugs. You can obtain these at a pharmacy, either with or without a prescription. There are also illegal ones, called hard drugs or street drugs. These include narcotics, stimulants, barbiturates, and hallucinogens. In nearly every instance, drugs are toxic and dangerous. There are exceptions; these are natural products which the FDA erroneously classifies as "drugs." (See "Drug Rash.") Included here are such things as charcoal tablets and peppermint tea.

People often start taking street drugs such as nicotine, alcohol, and coffee, thinking them to be harmless, enjoyable, or beneficial. But they are neither. Frequently the dose is increased, to obtain the same pleasant effect; but an overdose may eventually occur, and death results.

Treatments

• Withdrawal must be done. When a person is highly dependent on a drug, it is best that the dose gradually be reduced slowly, over a four-week period. Regarding the hard drugs, it is best that withdrawal be done under professional guidance.

• Nutritious food should be eaten along with heavy vitamin/mineral supplementation. Vitamin C and the B complex are especially important. Drink lots of water and get extra rest. Take sweat baths, to help excrete poisons.

Hydrotherapy

The following hydrotherapy methods used for opium, cocaine, and related habits are from the author's book, Water Therapy Manual (see order sheet):

General: Rest in bed. Sweating baths (such as Radiant Heat Bath, Steam Bath) twice a day for 3 days before withdrawing the drug. Follow bath by vigorous cold applications. While withdrawing the drug, the symptoms may be successfully combated as follows:

Nervousness, restlessness, "indescribable sensations": Prolonged Neutral Bath at 92o-94o F., for 10 minutes; Neutral Douche at 92o F. for 2-4 minutes.

Cardiac weakness: Cold Compress or Ice Bag over heart; alternate (hot and then cold) applications to the spine; Cold Mitten Friction; Cold Towel Rub, repeating treatment hourly if necessary.

Vomiting: Hot and Cold Truck Pack, Ice Bag over stomach and spine, Hot Leg Pack.

Diarrhea: Hot Enema after each movement; Cold Compress over abdomen, changed every 30 minutes.

Local pain: Revulsive Compresses, alternate or hot and cold Compress.

Insomnia after withdrawal: Wet Sheet pack; Prolonged Neutral Bath, 20-60 minutes; Heating Leg Pack; Hot Abdominal Pack; cold Ice Cap.

General Method: Same as for alcoholism. Withdraw gradually within 2-3 days (pp. 191-192).

-Also see "Alcohol Withdrawal" and "Tobacco Withdrawal."

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