Opioids are drugs that are used to relieve pain for high amounts of pain the body is not used to sustaining. ... If they are taken as prescribed these drugs can help manage pain safely and effectively, yet if they are abused, a single large dose can cause serious respiratory stress and death. ... If used daily it can cause sleep deprivation and loss of appetite, resulting in malnutrition. ... Barbiturates are Central Nervous system Depressants that depress the activity of nerves in the smooth muscle tissue, thereby lowering heart rate, respiration and blood pressure. ... Also the low blood pre...

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Mitchell] Grace explains "not until she was at my feet, a blade in her chest, blood soaking through her gown. ... Some woman experiment as early as twelve years old, usually happening because of peer pressure. Girls and young women are likelier than boys and young men to abuse substances in order to lose weight, relieve stress or boredom, improve their mood, reduce sexual inhibitions, self-medicate depression, and increase confidence.Although men are more likely to become addicts, woman generally have a care provider who prescribe drugs which jump starts the addiction. ... Health probl...

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Withdrawal refers to physical and psychological symptoms experienced when reducing or discontinuing a substance that the body has become dependent on. ... The lows are usually very low and the highs are very high. ... The withdrawal from heroin is painful and it takes a few days if the abuser is at home and not in a proper treatment facility. ... Cocaine constricts blood vessels, dilates pupils, and increases body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure. ... Some addicts keep going back to buy more because they are not satisfied with the high they received the first time. ...

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According to BBC, the parents' of the toddler were both drug addicts who were prescribed methadone to reduce the effects of their addiction to heroin. ... Once pressure of the investigation mounts, Gerald shows that he is a cold blooded killer by murdering anyone who could testify against him. ... If only she had asked the Pfeiffer's permission to take the can of formula beforehand, then ultimately her baby might still be alive. ... It is truly amazing the depths people in this world go to just to get high. ...

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If the OxyContin is discontinued in a dependant patient, an abstinence syndrome may occur ("OxyContin,"" 2539). ... If withdraw occurs, patients should be treated by reinstitution of opioid therapy followed by a gradual tapered dose reduction of OxyContin combined with symptomatic support ("OxyContin,"" 2539). ... Other symptoms of withdraw include anxiety, backache, joint pain, weakness, abdominal cramps, insomnia, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, or an increase in blood pressure, respiratory rate and heart rate ("OxyContin,"" 2539). ... Death from fatal respiratory depression can ha...

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