Learn More About Heroin Addiction
Heroin - or diacetylmorphine, is a semisynthetic substance derived from morphine, opium with psychological and physiological effects fastest. Physical and mental addictive since the first dose. Crude form is obtained by drying milk opium poppy, a sticky white substance. Raw opium osciliaza color between brown and black. After processing raw opium can be eaten, drunk, injected or smoked main psychoactive ingredient is morphine. Morphine is extracted directly from the white poppy (germ Opiummohn) or intermediate.
Forms of consumption:
Opiates can be swallowed, injected, snorted, inhaled, smoked or administered as suppositories. Heroin is prizeaza, to inhale (a method called "hailing" or "blowing"), injected intramuscularly or subcutaneously (in adipose tissue) or intravenously, ultimately as most commonly ascertained. A heroin addict can consume daily 0.5 to 3 g heroin on average concentration. Injections are usually divided into three, rarely more doses per day.
Short term effects:
- dizziness
- Breath slow
- Confused thinking
- Nausea / vomiting
- No reaction to pain
- Risk of miscarriage
Long term effects:
Heroin has virtually the same spectrum of action that morphine has an analgesic effect instead of five to 10 times stronger. At the same time, heroin is the strong highs. Like morphine, fade human intellectual activity and influence of his physical condition to eliminate fear and bad mood. Under the influence of heroin, people seem happy the way out. Their needs are fully met, heroin suppress appetite and facilitate dehydration, they feel they have everything they need. Consumers often recounts an episode of "flash" (English Lightning), a dynamic flow of pleasure that includes the entire body immediately after injection into the bloodstream. All effects felt by those who consume these drugs is called "kick" (energy, momentum, mobilizing power). Terms powerful amplification function suggests that these feelings can dominate the behavior of opiate addicts, especially if they are given by injection. The daily amount of opioids required depends on the substance and the degree of habit. With the disappearance of opioid effect, absence of perceived state of happiness is amplified in objective reality. When a new administration, depression disappears, like physical withdrawal symptoms. Most consumers present or develop over time, in addition to disease of addiction, and mental illness.