Friday, January 25, 2019

Heroin Effects, Addiction & Treatment





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.

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 Effects 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 Heroin effects of abuse appear immediately after a dose and disappear within a few hours.
Other Heroin Effects may include respiratory depression, narrow (“pinpoint”) students and nausea. High volume Heroin Effects may include slow and shallow breathing, hypotension, blue lips and nails, muscle spasm, impulse, coma, and potential death.
Intravenous use is complex with other issues such as sharing of contaminated needles, toxic reactions to HIV / AIDS, hepatitis, and impurities. Read More


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