Heroin Addiction Treatment Options 1 Can Heroin Addiction be treated? Alternative Treatment Modalities for Heroin Dependence. Maritza Padilla Psychology – 230-1241 Professor B. Harrington November 3, 2012 Heroin Addiction Treatment Options 2 Heroin is a powerful narcotic derived from morphine, which is obtained from the opium poppy. Heroin impacts the brain and acts as a painkiller. It affects the brain's pleasure systems and interferes with the brain's ability to perceive pain by depressing nerve transmission in the sensory pathways of the spinal cord and brain that signal pain.
How Alcohol Affects the Central Nervous System Alcohol can affect several parts of the brain, but in general, alcohol contracts brain tissue and depresses the central nervous system. When alcohol reaches the brain, it interferes with communication between nerve cells, by interacting with the receptors on some cells. The alcohol suppresses excitatory nerve pathway activity and increases inhibitory nerve pathway activity. Among other actions, alcohol enhances the effects of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. Enhancing an inhibitor has the effect of making a person sluggish.
There are many more similarities and also differences between heroin and Substance D, and the aim of this paper is to find and research them in depth, focusing on the situation of these drugs in America. Section 2 deals with properties of heroin and Substance D, section 3 deals with positive and negative effects they have on addicts, section 4 focuses on overcoming the addiction, section 5 compares the two drugs and section 6 summarizes the paper. 2. Basic properties of heroin and Substance D 2.1 Heroin Heroin (diacetylmorphine, morphine diacetate or diamorphine hydrochloride), colloquially also known as Smack, Junk, Dope, H, Horse and Black is produced by processing raw opium, a natural substance found in oriental opium poppies. It can be either smoked or injected.
When compared to the opioids hydromorphone, fentanyl, oxycodone, and pethidine/meperidine, former addicts showed a strong preference for heroin and morphine, suggesting that heroin and morphine are particularly susceptible to abuse and addiction. Morphine and heroin were also much more likely to produce euphoria and other positive subjective effects when compared to these other
Pharm MOD 1 Discussion – Group 1 During clinical, you are assigned to care for a client receiving morphine IV for control of postoperative pain. The clinical instructor has assigned you to explain the following: A) What are the major differences between narcotic agonists, narcotic agonists-antagonists, and narcotic antagonists? Narcotic agonists are drugs that react with the opioid receptors throughout the body to cause analgesia, sedation, or euphoria. These drugs are highly addictive (p. 408). Narcotic agonists-antagonists react with some opioid receptor sites to stimulate activity and block other opioid receptor sites.
A narcotic is an addictive drug that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour. In medicine, an analgesic narcotic means opioid, which refers to all natural, semi-synthetic and synthetic substances that act pharmacologically like morphine, the primary constituent of natural opium. The opioids are classified on the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) list of prohibited substances and methods as narcotics. In order to train for longer or even when injured, athletes may takes substances such as narcotics which help to numb any pain that they are experiencing. Examples of banned narcotics include morphine, heroin, the heroin substitute methadone and the pain killer codeine.
But, why? The importance of studying this topic is to figure out why teens are choosing to dangerously use heroin, and hopefully put a stop to it. Discussion of Research Question Heroin abuse among teenagers is a very broad topic. That is why it is important to focus on one general aspect related to the topic. The research question that is going to be studied is; “What family characteristics correlate with heroin abuse among teenagers?” The primary variable identified is family characteristics.
After a while, users need higher doses to get the same effect. This leads to dependence and addiction for those users of the drug. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 43 percent of ecstasy users become dependent on the drug. Users are aware of the negative consequences of ecstasy, but their dependence on it prevents them from stopping to use the drug. However, Ecstasy is used medicinally to relieve victims of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The three major categories of drugs are stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens. Stimulants such as caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines, and nicotine speed up body processes, including autonomic nervous system functions like the heart and respiration rate. This increase in rate is accompanied by a sense of euphoria. Also all stimulants produce tolerance and withdrawal effects that correspond to the power of the drug. Depressants are drugs that slow are body’s function.
They use it as a crutch to deal with the emotions of an controlled environment much like people in the real world do with an uncontrolled environment. The uses of drugs in the book and in the real world are used to solve problems in ways that are healthy and unhealthy. Drugs in both worlds also create problems by not allowing a person to feel what he or she should feel in order to be a healthy functioning living human. Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, and Adderall all have one thing in common; they are used to help people that have a difficult time function properly in the world. People with ADD or ADHD cannot concentrate in school or do common task without being distracted without their medication.