Friday, January 25, 2019

Heroin: Effects, Addiction & Treatment Options




What is Heroin?

Pure heroin (diacetylmorphine) is a white powder in which it is abused for its impressive effect with bitter taste. Heroin, a highly addictive medicine, is found in morphine alkaloids found in opium poppy plant (Papaver somniferum) and is roughly 2 to 3 times stronger than morphine. This nose is usually injected, smoked or snorted. It exhibits splendid (“crowd”), anti-anxiety and pain relief properties.
•  Most unlawful heroin is sold in white or brown powder and is usually “cut” with other medicines or substances such as sugar, starch, powder milk or quinine. It can also be cut from strychnine or other poisons. This is an injection that has been given injection.
•  Cuttings were found in heroin reaching powerful Opioids roads such as fentanyl and carfentanyl, and it could be fatal to the unsafe user.
•  Another form known as “black tar” can be sticky, such as roof tar, or link, such as, link. Its color can vary from dark brown to black. This form is usually smoked or snatched.
•  Because abusers do not know the real power of medicine or its actual content, so they are often at greater risk or risk of death.
•  U.S. In, opium is rarely grown and cultivated, but is brought from Latin American countries. Afghanistan is the capital of poppy harvesting, which produces around 75% of world’s heroin supplies.
Heroin has been classified as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which has a strict criminal fines, and it has no acceptable medical use in the US.
Common opiates available by prescription include: odeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, fentanyl, Methadone, Morphine,tramadol, oxycodone, oxymorphone, and tapentadol. All these agents have been classified as Schedule II narcotics by DEA.

Ways to Use

Heroin is often given intravenous (IV) injection, however, it can also be done:
•  Vaporized (“smoked”)
•  Sniffed (“snorted”)
•  Used as a suppository
•  Orally swallow
Smoking and heroin sniffing do not produce “quick” or quicker in the form of IV injections. Oral injection is usually not “quick”, but the use in the suppository form can have intense intense effects. By any given route, heroin can be addictive.

Effects of Heroin Use

Heroin is metabolized for morphine and other metabolites, which are bound to opioid receptors in the brain.
•  After the injection, the user feels the increase of euphoria (“crowd”) with warm flushing, dry mouth and heavy skin of the skin.
•  After this initial enthusiasm, the user has an alternative to the awakened and sleeping situation.
•  Due to depression of the central nervous system, mental functioning takes place.
•  Short-term effects of abuse appear immediately after a dose and disappear within a few hours.
Other effects may include respiratory depression, narrow (“pinpoint”) students and nausea. High volume effects may include slow and shallow breathing, hypotension, blue lips and nails, muscle spasm, impulse, coma, and potential death. Read More


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