The Short-Term Effects Of Heroin

What is heroin? Heroin is formed by morphine, which is a naturally occurring substance taken from the seed of an Asian opium poppy plant. There are many different ways heroin can appear, such as a white or brown powder or a black sticky substance, known as “black tar heroin”. 1.6% of Americans ages 12 and up admitted to trying heroin at least once in their lifetime. About 23% of individuals who use heroin have become dependent on it.
Heroin was first manufactured by the Bayer medication company of Germany in 1898. It was marketed as a treatment drug for tuberculosis and a remedy for morphine addiction. Today it’s well known as methadone.
Heroin is a drug that can be smoked, inhaled by snorting or sniffing, and injected. All three routes of
control deliver the drug to the brain very promptly, which leads to health risks and to its high risks to addiction. When heroin enters the brain, its transformed back into morphine, which binds back into molecules on our opioid receptors. These cells are located in many places in your brain and body. They are located in the brain stem.
Some of heroin’s street names are brown sugar, china white, dope, H, horse, junk, skag, skunk, and smack. People will use these names instead of heroin because of other people around them might not know what they are talking about. If they use these names they feel like they are less likely to get into trouble.
When people say there are short-term and long-term effect on different thing they are
right.
Sometimes there can be both. Heroin’s short-term effect vary, the effects include Euphoria, warm flushing of the skin, dry mouth, heavy feeling in the hands and feet, itching, nausea,

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vomiting, slowed breathing and heart rate, clouded thinking, and alternate wakeful and clumsy states. Its long-term effects are followed by collapsed veins, abscesses (swollen tissue with pus), constipation and stomach cramps, infection of the lining and valves in the heart, liver and kidney disease, and pneumonia.
When heroin is combined with alcohol there comes many consequences along with that.
Those consequences involve dangerous slowdown of heart rate and breathing, comas, and even death. Some people get lucky and don’t go into comas and or have death. When in a coma theres no telling how long you could be under it. After so long under life support they have to remove you from it.
Withdrawal includes restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps (“cold turkey”), and leg movement. Medications include methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone. There are several behavioral therapies such
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