ESS 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Respiratory Arrest, Cerebrovascular Disease, Mental Process
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Most abused and most rapidly acing of the opiates. Usually white or brownish powder or black sicky substance called black tar heroin . Cut with other drugs or with sugar/starch/powdered milk/quinine or other mystery substances. Can be cut with strychnine or other poisons. Abusers don"t know actual strength or true contents, so there is a risk of overdose or death. Short-term efects: depressed/slow respiraion, someimes to point of death, rush when bbb is crushed and opioid receptors are bound to. Intensity is how mych drug is taken and how rapidly the drug enters brain and binds to receptors. Warm lushing of skin, heavy extremiies, dry mouth. Also someimes nausea, vomiing, severe itching: clouded mental funcioning, nausea/vomiing, spontaneous aborion in pregnant female, suppression of pain, ater iniial efects, users will be drowsy for several hours. Mental funcion clouded by heroin"s efect on cns: cardiac funcions slow.
