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What's the difference in withdrawl symptoms between heroin, meth, and painkillers?

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Dr. Leonard Lado answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Meth vs heroin: Meth withdrawal most prominent early symptoms is profound depression, yawning and often suiciidal thought from the rapid drop of Dopamine in brain. Heroin and pain killers have pronounced physical symptom of muscle pain, yawning, diarrhea, cold intokerance with sweating runny nose and abdominal cramps beginning around 24 hours of last dose and worsening at 48 hours. A person becomes incapacitated.

Answered 6/25/2014

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