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Specialists Speak Out
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Drug Facts
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Heroin effects many parts of the human body, including blood vessels that lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys and brain.
The effects of alcohol are experienced differently for each individual depending on their size, sex, body build, and metabolism.
Crystal meth effects are similar to those of cocaine but with more power and intensity.
Some of the most frequent complications due to cocaine use are cardiovascular effects, including disturbances in heart rhythm and heart attacks; such respiratory effects as chest pain and respiratory failure; neurological effects, including strokes, seizu
The effects of marijuana are felt within minutes, reach their peak in 10 to 30 minutes, and may linger for two or three hours.
The short-term physiological effects of cocaine include constricted blood vessels; dilated pupils; and increased temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure.
Since about 1990, GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) has been abused in the U.S. for its euphoric, sedative, and anabolic (body building) effects. It is a central nervous system depressant that was widely available over-the-counter in health food stores during the 1980s and until 1992.
Research suggests that people who used ecstasy at least 25 times had lowered serotonin levels for as long as a year after quitting.
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Morphine Effects
Morphine, a narcotic , directly effects the central nervous system. Besides relieving
pain, Morphine's effects impair mental and physical performance, relieves fear
and anxiety, and produces euphoria. Morphine's effects also decreases hunger,
inhibits the cough reflex, produces constipation, and usually reduces the sex
drive; in women it may interfere with the menstrual cycle. Morphine's euphoric
effects can be highly addictive. Tolerance (the need for higher and higher doses
to maintain the same effect) and physical and psychological dependence develop
quickly.
Morphine effects include but are not limited to:
- relieves pain
- impairment of mental and physical performance
- relief of fear and anxiety
- euphoria
- decease in hunger
- inhibiting the cough reflex
Another one of morphine's effects is addiction. Tolerance (the need for higher
and higher doses to maintain the same effect) and physical and psychological
dependence to morphine's effects develop quickly. Withdrawal from morphine causes
nausea, tearing, yawning, chills, and sweating lasting up to three days. Morphine
crosses the placental barrier, and babies born to morphine-using mothers go
through withdrawal.
Morphine activates the brain’s reward systems. The promise of reward is
very intense, causing the individual to crave the drug and to focus his or her
activities around taking morphine. The ability of morphine to strongly activate
brain reward mechanisms and its ability to chemically alter the normal functioning
of these systems can produce an addiction. Morphine effects also reduce a person’s
level of consciousness, harming the ability to think or be fully aware of present
surroundings.
Morphine is a narcotic analgesic. Morphine was first isolated from opium in 1805
by a German pharmacist, Wilhelm Sertürner. Sertürner described it as
the Principium Somniferum. He named it morphium - after Morpheus, the Greek god
of dreams. Today morphine is isolated from opium in substantially larger quantities
- over 1000 tons per year - although most commercial opium is converted into codeine
by methylation. On the illicit market, opium gum is filtered into morphine base
and then synthesized into heroin.
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