PS268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cough Medicine, Heroin, Papaver
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Opium and heroin supply, distribution and trafficking in canada: 10% of university students have used opiates without a prescription, poppies are illegally imported from south and southwest asia, only a gram. In addition to opium, poppies also have morphine and codeine in them. Dirty needles : represses respiration centers in the brain, opioid triad coma, depressed respiration and pinpoint pupils. Safe injection: canada renewed the canada"s drug strategy (cds) to reduce the harm associated with alcohol and other drugs using, education, prevention, harm reduction, enforcement. Insite: vancouver"s supervised injection facility: does not provide the drugs, 33% more likely to get into detox if they are registered with detox, offers housing services. Iv drug users account for a large % of those with hepatitis c, hiv and aids: sif participation and drug use behaviors, direct availability of clean injection equipment.
