Heroin causes breathing, blood pressure and pulse to become slower and your mouth dries out. ... Withdrawal symptoms from heroin include a craving for the drug, restlessness, tears, low blood pressure, goose bumps, and diarrhea. ... It involves high doses of naltrexone given over a 48-hour period. ... Heroin slows down reaction time, reduces coordination and affect vision, which can impair driving. ... Some people may feel that if they take heroin a few days they would quit easily. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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Use of narcotics and cocaine diminished or reduced by the 1920s. ... Drugs also were used: • To see visions or gain insights • To dull the pain of ritual mutilation in initiation ceremonies • To enhance the strength and pain resistance of warriors to prepare them for battle, or to program them to kill • As pain or hunger suppressants • To help cope with thin air at high altitudes • To relax during celebrations By current standards, the historical use of herbal preparations was not too harmful. ... It also decreases hunger, inhibits the cough ref...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Millions of dollars are spent annually in the War on Drugs causing many to wonder if this fight is cost-effective or if an alternative such as legalization would be more realistic than current efforts in drug prevention. ... As Duke states, illegal-drug use has been reduced dramatically in the past few years among white middle and upper classes-but hardly or not at all among ethnic minorities, who largely inhabit out inner cities. ... New York authorities supported DuPont's research, stating the reduced prices also accompanied increases in the numbers of both new users and abusers of coca...

• Word Count: 4794
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Millions of dollars are spent annually in the War on Drugs causing many to wonder if this fight is cost-effective or if an alternative such as legalization would be more realistic than current efforts in drug prevention. ... As Duke states, illegal-drug use has been reduced dramatically in the past few years among white middle and upper classes-but hardly or not at all among ethnic minorities, who largely inhabit out inner cities. ... New York authorities supported DuPont's research, stating the reduced prices also accompanied increases in the numbers of both new users and abusers of coca...

• Word Count: 4624
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Everyone's doing it, from teenagers to soccer moms to high profile celebrities. ... There have been numerous reports of high profile and white collar people who have faced the powerful grips of Vicodin addiction. ... For some reason that theory changes when the addiction surfaces on the high profile and white collar opiate junkies. ... Replacement therapy which provides a harm reduction approach is especially beneficial to high risk IV users. ... If the user elects to use replacement therapy, they will be evaluated and monitored by a physician regularly. ...

• Word Count: 3818
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If used as a teen it can cause retarding of the normal brain cells. ... Heroin also gives a high when used. ... Most of the time, drug abusers either are unable to see the penalties or reduce the severity of them in their mind. ... The user may feel as if they were using the drug again for several minutes or less until the LSD wears off. ... However at the end of the day most citizens will not be affected if marijuana is legalized. ...

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