Drug News |
 Club drug safety needed
Covington County has more than its fair share of illegal drug use and abuse, which ...
|
Meth tightens toxic grip on girls
Sitting in a circle in a basement classroom at the Turning Point girls' residence, five ...
|
ECSTASY DEPLETES BRAIN OF MOOD CHEMICAL
Using the recreational drug Ecstasy reduces the amount of a brain chemical that controls mood, ...
|
Ecstasy side effects 'not minor'
The effects of the drug ecstasy cannot be dismissed as minor, according to an intensive ...
|
Italy's Docs Failing to Report Adverse Drug Side Effects
FLORENCE (Reuters Health) - Many Italian doctors are not reporting on adverse reactions in patients, ...
|
OxyContin's deadly side effects
Health professionals warn Western Michigan University students about the dangers of a new drug that's ...
|
Mother of two withdrawals from meth in jail cell
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. - The physical withdrawal from methamphetamine wasn't so bad. It was knowing what ...
|
Panhandle woman gets 10 years for hubby's honeymoon drug death
SHALIMAR -- A bride has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the honeymoon ...
|
|
Drug Facts
|
Morphine is a narcotic analgesic. Morphine was first isolated from opium in 1805 by a German pharmacist, Wilhelm Sert�rner.
The study found that, compared to the nonusers, heavy ecstasy users had significant impairments in visual and verbal memory.
At intoxicating doses, alcohol can decrease heart rate, lower blood pressure and respiration rate, and result in decreased reflex responses and slower reaction times.
The study found that, compared to the nonusers, heavy ecstasy users had significant impairments in visual and verbal memory.
|
|
|
Heroin
Side Effects 
Heroin is an
illegal, highly addictive opiate drug. Its abuse is more widespread than any
other opiate. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance
extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It is typically
sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on
the streets as "black tar heroin."
One of the
most detrimental side effectst of heroin, is heroin addiction itself. Heroin
addiction is a chronic problem, characterized by compulsive drug seeking and
use, and by neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain. Heroin also produces
profound degrees of tolerance and physical addiction, which are also powerful
motivating factors for compulsive use and abuse. As with abusers of any addictive
drug, heroin addicts gradually spend more and more time and energy obtaining
and using the drug. Once they are addicted, the heroin abusers' primary purpose
in life becomes seeking and using heroin. Heroin literally changes their brains.
Short term
heroin side effects include but are not limited to:
- Rush
- Depressed respiration
- Clouded mental
functioning
- Nausea and vomiting
- Suppression of
pain
- Spontaneous abortion
Long term heroin side effects
include but are not limited to:
- Addiction
- Abscesses
- Collapsed veins
- Bacterial infections
- Infection of heart
lining and valves
- Arthritis and other
rheumatologic problems
- Infectious diseases,
for example, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C
|
|
Links to Us
|
Show
your support. Link to us!
|
|
