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With the escalation of prescribed medication abuse, the province of  Ontario has not enough resouces of medical detox to provide people in need with the proper help. The whole province has about 50 beds available for severe medical detox divided in 3 facilities in Toronto and Ottawa.

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Over the counter medication detox

Cough and cold medication can be procured without a prescription at a pharmacy.  These medications once they contain DXM or CODEINE are very addictive.

Please note:  medications containing DXM when taken with “non-drowsy” allergy medication can cause respiratory failure and alternative life threatening effects.

DXM is significantly addictive and the withdrawals can be life threatening due to the result it has upon the motor controls of the brain.  So coma, respiratory failure,  and schizophrenic-like symptoms can arise each from over use and from withdrawing from it.  Brain injury has been recorded from abusing this drug.

Codeine is an opioid:   on the opposite hand unlike morphine it's a very high active absorption level when taken orally.  Almost ninety% of the drug taken retains its active characteristic once passing through the liver.  Thus it's dangerously subject to overdose.  Detox symptoms from codeine can embody insomnia,  cramping, fever//chills,  bleeding abdomen,  dehydration,  body pain, headache.

Speak to a counsellor at addicted.org for a recommended withdraw facility for over the counter habit.  The very fact that it is procured without a prescription does not make it any less dangerous to detox from without assistance,  and careful monitoring.

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Last Updated on Monday, 09 November 2009 22:59
 

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