Where does the phrase "going cold turkey" derive from? Because no turkey I know has taken heroin....
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l0l...well how many turkeys do you know?\n\nGoing cold turkey isnt just for someone who has taken heroin people who take 'coke' or 'speed' aswell as people who are taking heroin, cold turkey usually happens when the drug is wearing out of the body which will cause withdrawl symptoms such as cold sweats and the the colour of your skin will go goose pimply and usually patchy coloured like a kind of 'yellowish' colour along with the shakes. cold turkey is just a term for withdrawl symptoms.\n\nx x
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origin- In the state of drug withdrawal the addicts blood is directed to the internal organs leaving the skin white and with goose bumps. \nmeaning- The state addicts are in when withdrawing from drug addition, especially heroin.
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Heroin is an opiate derivative, and as such is a very powerful pain suppressant. The problem with Heroin is that it is extremely addictive, even after only a few doses.\n\nIt is often prescribed in later stages of such problems as cancer, when the disease is doing extensive damage to the human body.
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Smoking.  Haven't had a cigarette in 20 years now.  Tried cold turkey 3 times and failed... but then I got so sick with the flu that I didn't WANT to smoke for three days... and when I got better  the withdrawal was over so I decided to ride it out.  One of the best things I ever did for myself!
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Cannabis in its natural habitat, grows to two or three meters high.  The leaves have minute globules of resin on the underside. The plants are 'harvested' and the 'processor' whips the branches of the plant against a table or worktop to which the resin sticks.  He then scrapes the resin off the table and forms it into small bars.   It is obviously easier to transport and is more expensive.   Your friend will not give up its use unless he really and truthfully wants to do so.  He will not have 'withdrawal symptoms' as do heroin users and will not have to go 'cold turkey'.   He may become quite paranoid at times and this is when he may revert.   If he is successful, his body should be clear in about a month.   There is a school of thought that he could possibly have 'flashbacks' over the coming years.  Good luck in your endeavors.............
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Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on the streets as "black tar heroin." Although purer heroin is becoming more common, most street heroin is "cut" with other drugs or with substances such as sugar, starch, powdered milk, or quinine. Street heroin can also be cut with strychnine or other poisons. Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at risk of overdose or death. Heroin also poses special problems because of the transmission of HIV and other diseases that can occur from sharing needles or other injection equipment.
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It's an old Americanism.\n\nThere are various stories about the origin of to talk turkey. One version is that a white man was talking to an Indian about dividing the game from a hunt: "You take the crow (or buzzard) and I'll take the turkey, or I'll take the turkey and you take the crow (or buzzard)." The Indian realized the white man was not talking turkey--he was not telling the plain truth. Another theory is that to talk turkey derives from the hunter's practice of making a gobbling noise so that the stupid turkey answers him with a gobble and gives away its whereabouts. \n\nSome say that cold turkey is not connected to to talk turkey, the correct connection being that leftover cold turkey is simple and unadorned, as is the blunt and plain truth. Others point out that the goose pimples appearing as a symptom of drug withdrawal resemble the skin of a plucked turkey.
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I always laugh at the word treatment when it comes to methadone because really it should be called methadone addiction.  Users go from an illegal pusher to a legal one overnight and of course the drug companies earn a fortune too. Ask any ex user and they wont describe using methadone as getting high.  Methadone is very difficult to come off of because the withdrawal symptoms are far greater.  We can thank the NAZI's for methadone because it was developed for the battle field because germany's borders were closed and they could not get any morphine.\n\nMethadone alone is not of any benefit to users except reducing the criminal aspects of their use.  \n\nFunding for proper treatment is dire to say the least and the government should fund more resources.  In November 2005 last year i was unable to refer any clients onto residantial rehab because there was no funding until April 2006. How sad  is that that even though people want to gave up using there is no help for them.  After all it is cheaper for the government to give users methadone rather than spend up to £500.00 per week on resi-rehab.\n\nIf the government really truly wanted to reduce crime and empty prisons over night all they need to do is implement decent rehabilitation pathways that actually help drug addicts.  But they need crime and addiction to have soemthing to develop fear in society so they will get the votes that they need.\n\nMethadone can and does work sometimes but not nearly good enough, it is important to realise that it must be done with other alternatives such as Naltraxone and subutex as part of the detox program.
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It does not matter whether you can addict to heroin easier than cocaine or should bother to use a needle for it.If you aim melting your brain both would do efficiently sooner or later.No difference in their final harmful (often lethal) effect for you.
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"Cold turkey" is a slang expression describing the actions of a person who gives up a habit or addiction all at once, rather than gradually (easing the process through tapering off or using supplemental medication). This is, of course, the cheapest method of quitting any habit, and its supposed advantage is that by not actively using supplemental methods, the person avoids thinking about the habit and therefore, the temptation.\n\nThe term allegedly derives from the comparison of a cold turkey carcass and the state of a withdrawing addict — most notably, the cold sweats and goose bumps. It is often preceded by the verb "to go," as in "going cold turkey."
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I DONT HAVE A LONG A$$ ANSWR EITHER\nTRY EATING XANAX, OR MATBE MORPHINE, ANYV WAY YOU PROLLY WONT GET THIS CUZ YAHOO ANSWERERS ARE A BUNCH OF ADDICTS TOO, thats why their on "yahoo answeres" and gonna delete the answer\nit seems to me "everytime" i answer a question or ask one someone that"knowsitall" is a stupid OLD, beyatrch that needs to go through menapause, and then be a concveded a$$-Hole
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Here is the story that I found on Comcast news. Sick people I tell you!!\n\n\n\nN.Y.-Bound Puppies Used As Drug Couriers\nBy TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer\n5 hours ago\n\nNEW YORK - Colombian smugglers turned puppies into drug mules by surgically implanting them with packets of liquid heroin, authorities said.\n\nInvestigators believe the ring used the dogs, as well as people who swallowed the drugs, to conceal millions of dollars of heroin on commercial flights into New York for distribution on the East Coast.\n\nTen puppies, including Labrador retrievers, were rescued during a 2005 raid on a farm in Colombia, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday, while announcing more than 30 arrests.\n\nA veterinarian had stitched a total of 3 kilograms of heroin into the bellies of six pups. Three died from infections after the drugs were removed.\n\nThe surviving dogs "are still alive and well, we're told," said John P. Gilbride, head of the DEA's New York office.\n\nColombian police said they adopted three dogs, one of which was being trained to sniff for drugs.\n\nIt was unclear how many dogs might have been used in the smuggling scheme, Gilbride said.\n\n"I think it's outrageous and heinous that they'd use small, innocent puppies in this way," he said.\n\nBesides the pups and human swallowers, authorities said the ring based in Medellin also concealed drugs in body creams, aerosol cans, and the linings of purses and luggage.\n\nRecent raids in Colombia resulted in more than 20 arrests; another 10 suspects were in custody in New York, Florida and North Carolina. About 24 kilograms of heroin was seized, officials said.
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Wow i actually had to go read the article because i didn't believe it was true! That is the most insane thing I've seen in a long time. It's also kind of odd that personal use is defined as four joints but 2.2 pounds of peyote, 25 milligrams of heroin, or 4 lines of cocaine. It makes you wonder if the officials there have their hands all in the hard drug market. I hate to say but most people who buy weed buy more than 4 joints worth at once. Also i remember a few years ago watching something on TV about the problem of Cali kids crossing the borders and drinking over there in Mexico so now the can go do a line, roll on X or shot a little heroine before coming home. What a ridiculous thing. Heroine ruins lives. My dad was on it way back before i was born but he stayed on methadone till he died. One trip to the methadone clinic is all it takes to show you what happens when you do heroine. you know that big tall fence idea is sounding better by the minute.
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These addicts will use anything they can convert, steal, or make to use their drugs.  Almost anything could be converted into a pipe.  \nI hope you never find out.  Take care of yourself.
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grow up and don't do it. he might have some pain stopping. \n\nnothing in life is easy. bottom line it's just a choice.\n\neither stop cold turkey. or continiute to destroy his life.\n\nyou can't have your cake and eat it too. it is one or the other.
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"sex drugs, rock and roll,speed, weed, birth control, life's a b itch then you die, f uck the world let's get high".\nwow i haven't heard that since junior high...thanks for reminding me LOL
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Congratulations on quitting!  That's really, really awesome!  Keep up the great work :-)\n\nI don't really know about heroin addictions but I, too have heard that Wellbutrin is good w/ addictions.\n\nGood luck!