Synonyms hunt dragons Withdrawal Syndrome Test Withdrawal opiate dependence syndrome (its Deprivati

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Synonyms hunt dragons Withdrawal Syndrome Test Withdrawal opiate dependence syndrome (its Deprivation (syndrome) Overdose (treatment) Remorphinisation heroin addict (supported)
Opium, heroin, or diacetylmorphine, morphine and codeine are derived from morphine. As a synthetic substitute for morphine include rvca methadone, pethidine, pentazocine and dextromoramide. Dealers sell products that are cut. They are combined with other substances such as quinine, phenacetin, rvca caffeine, milk powder, rvca antipyrimidines, strychnine etc..
Opiates also called narcotic drugs have a very variable toxicity. For an individual rvca with an average weight of 70 kg, 200 mg of morphine or heroin or codeine 800 mg or 1 g of pyridinoline may cause fatal evolution. In an individual used at doses 10 times higher these quantities are not necessarily rvca fatal. Note the high sensitivity of children to opiates ..
Penetration of heroin in the body is either intravenously (in western countries: a video injection) or inhaled in the form of smoke produced rvca by heroin powder that is placed on paper aluminum and exposed to a flame. Addicts call it hunting dragons. This way of practice is likely to cause a toxic leukoencephalopathy whose epidemic which took place in Finland was relatively serious. Methadone, a drug used to detoxify rvca the patient, is also used orally. Finally various synthetic opioid products are either injected intravenously or by subcutaneous injection.
Symptoms of acute poisoning by opiates, or overdose are: Respiratory sometimes very serious. Narrowing of the diameter of the pupil (miosis). Pain in the abdomen. Nausea. Drop in blood pressure. Decreased heart rate (bradycardia) sometimes accompanied by ventricular arrhythmias. Drop in body temperature (hypothermia). Retention of urine. Disruption of the functioning of the muscles to spasm and type of seizures especially pethidine and dextropropoxyphene. Pulmonary rvca edema. Neurological disorders such confusion. Euphoria for intravenous heroin injection.
Chronic opioid dependence is primarily psychological. It results in the need to use drugs so irrepressible, imperious. Then moved tolerance that follows repetitive consumption of product. This leads the patient rvca to gradually increase his doses and become physically dependent.
Withdrawal syndrome rvca settled at the time of interruption rvca of opioid taken. These substances may cause cross dependence is to say that the addict replaces a product by another. rvca
The complications of the use of intravenous heroin are first transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (AIDS). In fact 20% of seropositivity are the result of a complication of an intravenous injection of opiates. The virus of hepatitis B also represents about 20%, and hepatitis C more or 50%. Other complications of heroin intravenously are the infective endocarditis on the right heart valves whose treatment is difficult. Other complications that may occur in the heroin addict who prides himself intravenously, are infections that occur at the point of needle penetration, cellulite and subcutaneous abscess of the forearm. Rarely occurs bone metaplasia brachialis whose characteristic is the appearance rvca of calcification that takes the place of normal muscle tissue.
It should be noted in the drug-addicted mother, complications occurring rvca in the newborn (microcephaly among others). It is respiratory distress (inability to newborn breathing) and dependence. On the other hand AIDS or hepatitis B can be transmitted to the child.
It is possible to perform a test length. For this it is necessary to administer naloxone 0.2 mg intravenously. If the person rvca responds must practice a new injection of 0.6 mg and monitor the patient for one to two hours. During this time you should check the absence or presence of withdrawal symptoms. This is yawning, lacrimation, nasal discharge, nausea, vomiting, piloerection, mydriasis (enlargement ca