Opium
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Opium is extracted from poppy seeds and used to produce heroin, an illegal and highly addictive drug. Heroin is typically a white or brownish powder that is often "cut" with other substances, making the strength unpredictable and dangerous. It is usually injected but can also be snorted or smoked. Short term effects include euphoria, mental clouding, constricted pupils, and nausea. Overdose can cause shallow breathing, convulsions and even death.
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- 1. OPIUM
- 2. What is Opium? Opium is a naturally occurring substance found in the seeds of the opium poppy. Opium, which contains morphine, is extracted from the poppy seeds and used to produce heroin. Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug and its use is a serious problem in America. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates.
- 3. Pure heroin is a white powder with a bitter taste. Most illicit heroin is sold as a white or brownish powder and is usually "cut" with other drugs or with substances such as sugar, starch, powdered milk, or quinine. It can also be cut with strychnine or other poisons. Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at risk of overdose or death. Another form of heroin known as "black tar" may be sticky like roofing tar or hard like coal, and its color may vary from dark brown to black. Street names for Heroin include Smack, H, Skag, Junk, Brown sugar, Horse, Mud and Black tar.
- 4. Methods of Use Heroin is most often injected, however, high-purity heroin may also be snorted or smoked. Although smoking and sniffing heroin do not produce a "rush" as quickly or as intensely as intravenous injection, researchers have confirmed that all three forms of heroin administration are addictive. Other Terms For Opium: - Dope - Big O - Tar
- 5. Effects of Opium Use The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours. After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria ("rush") accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following this initial euphoria, the user experiences an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Other effects that heroin may have on users include respiratory depression, constricted pupils and nausea. Effects of heroin overdose include slow and shallow breathing, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and possible death.
- 6. By: Ralph Lery U. Guerrero II- Sampaguita