Heroin is an opioid agonist commonly abused for its rewarding effects. Since its synthesis at the end of the nineteenth century, its popularity as a recreational drug has ebbed and flowed. In the last three decades, heroin use has increased again, and yet the pharmacology of heroin is still ...
Alcohol, though, is not the only object of parental disbelief. We find it hard to even imagine that our children might be using heroin, but far too many are. Not in an injectable form as a street drug, but in the shape of a prescription pill.Opioids are painkillers. Doctors prescribe o...
The initial withdrawal stages from opioid addiction, including heroin addiction, can bring about intense and sometimes dangerous withdrawal symptoms. Thus, it is essential to undergo detox (sometimes also called medically assisted detox) at a heroin addiction (rehab) treatment center where trained medica...
Heroin is an opioid derived from morphine, a substance extracted from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant. It can be found in various forms, including white or brown powder or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin. Heroin can be injected, snorted, or smoked, and eac...
Heroin is an illegal opioid drug that is made from the morphine found in opium poppies. When heroin enters a person's bloodstream, the effects begin to take place within minutes. This drug has a very high potential for addiction. People often ...
Mary K. Caffrey
OpiumOpioid drugs are derived from or mimic substances that occur naturally in the opium poppy, including raw opium.(more) The major problem that arises from the consumption of psychotropic drugs isdependence, the compulsion to use the drug despite any deterioration inhealth, work, or social activ...
Onset of daily opioid use occurs at an early age, typically around 20, yet first voluntary admission to treatment usually occurs later than it does for other ethnic groups. Mexican-American addicts tend to be arrested more frequently and spend significantly more years in correctional institutions, ...
Unlike OxyContin and other opioid painkillers, heroin is an illegal drug, not available by prescription, and the surge in demand likely drove an increase in supply coming in from other countries. But Krakower stresses, it's not other countries that are to blame for drugs in the U.S., it'...
Heroin addiction: Occurs when opioid and dopamine receptors become habituated, Develops after 1-2 uses as it is 3 times stronger than morphine, Is both a phys...