Wired magazine writes an extensive story on 24-hour heroin detox
$15,000 buys you rapid detox with intravenous naloxone. The acute withdrawal symptoms can be so severe that the patient needs to be sedated with general anesthesia – which is shown in the picture above (taken from the story). This physician has turned “instant detoxification” into a thriving business.







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