Treating Inhalant Abuse With Dignity and Compassion. Each woman who seeks treatment for inhalant abuse or addiction requires much more than education about her disease and instruction about the process of recovery. She requires careful, ongoing attention to her health and to any complications from inhalant abuse.
Also called black-legged ticks, deer ticks are common in woods and grassy areas of the Northeast and northern United States. Reddish-brown adults like the one shown here are only one-eighth of an inch long. Tiny immature ticks that are about the size of a poppy seed also bite. Deer ticks infected with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi can cause Lyme disease in people, dogs, and cats. You might not even notice the tick or its bite. But if you do, remove the tick within 48 hours to limit your chances of getting Lyme disease.
Generally, this condition is associated with ticks attached around the head area, particularly at the base of the skull. Ticks that have been implicated in tick paralysis in the United States are the Rocky Mountain wood tick, the lone star tick, and the American dog tick. However, not all members of a species cause tick paralysis. The toxin that causes this condition is part of the salivary fluid that the tick injects.