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Mephedrone Addiction Support & Treatment
At New Leaf, we understand how a mephedrone addiction can take over your life.
We will tailor our innovative mephedrone addiction treatment programmeme to address your needs and help you get your life back on track. Your individualised drug rehab programme would include detox, individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy and a wide array of other treatment services designed to ensure you receive the highest standard of addiction treatment and achieve a sustained recovery.
What is Mephedrone Addiction
Mephedrone (sometimes called “meow meow”) is a powerful stimulant and is part of a group of drugs that are closely related to the amphetamines, like speed and ecstasy. There isn’t much evidence about mephedrone and its long term effects as its quite a new drug but because it is similar to speed and ecstasy the long term effects may well be similar.
There have been reports of people hospitalised due to the short-term effects. Also, you can never be entirely sure that what you’re buying is actually mephedrone and not something else.
What does Mephedrone do?
Mephedrone is often described as a mix between amphetamines, ecstasy, and cocaine. The effects of mephedrone last for about an hour, but the following can vary.
- It can make you feel alert, confident, talkative and euphoric- and some people will temporarily feel strong affection for those around them.
- Mephedrone can make users feel sick, paranoid and anxious, and it can cause vomiting and headaches.
- It risks overstimulating and damaging your heart and your circulation.
- It also risks overstimulating your nervous system, which may cause hallucinations, feelings of agitation and even fits.
- It can reduce your appetite, so you don’t feel hungry.
- Other effects that people have reported include heart palpitations, insomnia, loss of short-term memory, vertigo (a form of dizziness), grinding of teeth, sweating and uncomfortable changes in body temperature.
Taking mephedrone involves risks, and the dangers and long-term effects are becoming clearer as more reports emerge. Here’s what we know:
- Users have reported blue or cold fingers- this is probably because mephedrone affects the heart and the circulation.
- Some users have died – six deaths involving mephedrone were reported in 2011 in England and Wales.
- Some users have also had severe nosebleeds after snorting mephedrone.
- Overheating has been a significant cause of deaths when other amphetamine-type drugs, such as ecstasy, have been used along with mephedrone.
- Injecting mephedrone is particularly dangerous. It’s much easier to overdose when injecting.
- Research suggests that on average mephedrone is 50% pure, so it’s not just the mephedrone that goes into your bloodstream.
- Injecting can also cause damage to veins and arteries, and may cause ulcers and even gangrene (that’s when bits of the body start to die).
- Viral hepatitis and HIV/AIDS infections can be spread by users sharing needles, syringes or other injecting equipment.
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