Stimulants.Heroin is a depressant. It lowers your heart and breathing rate. Drugs like cocaine or methamphetamines speed up your central nervous system. This combo can make an overdose more likely because one drug might wear off before the other. ...
compared to that of other drugs of abuse, such as cocaine and psychostimulants in general. Since heroin is rapidly deacetylated to 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM) and then to morphine, drug addiction literature has long settled on the notion that heroin is little more than a means...
Recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD) and maintenance of abstinence from opioid use is hampered by perseverant drug cravings that may persist for months after cessation of drug use. Drug cravings can intensify during the abstinence period, a phenomenon referred to as the ‘incubation of craving...
The relationship between substance use disorders and psychiatric pathology is still an open question. The main aim of the present study was to verify whether the five psychopathological dimensions identified through the SCL-90 tool in a previous study carried out on patients with heroin addiction ent...
The relationship between substance use disorders and psychiatric pathology is still an open question. The main aim of the present study was to verify whether the five psychopathological dimensions identified through the SCL-90 tool in a previous study carried out on patients with heroin addiction ent...
However, this is a common misconception. Using cocaine and heroin together can actually amplify the negative side effects of both drugs and cause severe or even fatal side effects.1 The combination of a stimulant and a depressant in the body at the same time forces the body to process two ...
In fact, there is much evidence that indicates that the increase in stimulant and depressant use during the 19th century was caused by changes in the work environment. Before the industrial revolution, people were allowed to work as their body's dictated. With industrialisation, people were ...
Another related finding is the observation of tolerance and lack of tolerance to different heroin effects observed during chronic exposure. Thus, tolerance to the depressant effects of heroin was most obvious in the animals that received the highest heroin dose (ie 14.0 mg/kg/day). In fact,...