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have it. “Addiction is a special kind of hell. It takes the soul of the addict and breaks the hearts of everyone who loves them.” (me.me)
Although heroin addiction is extremely hard to get through, there is help. Loved ones who stay, counseling, and rehab can help with addiction. Rehabs and counseling are highly expensive though and are hard for a lot of people to get. The best bet is to just never get into it to begin with. The sad thing is, a lot of opioid prescription drugs are a lot like heroin with how they affect the body. A lot of doctors are in the field for money and not the well-being of their patients. They give their patients something they know is addictive and most likely will not be temporary because of this fact.
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Therefore, they keep on coming back for more. The non addictive drugs that help are highly expensive and a lot of insurance companies do not cover them. Another hurdle is the fact that many are in denial they are addicted in the first place. “Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you are locked up,” (Healthyplace.com) Many have died from heroin, whether from the long-term usage, decisions while on it, it being laced, or overdosing. Heroin can cause lack of oxygen in the brain, intestine damage, kidney failure, and rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdomyolysis is muscles experiencing the unmoving weight of the body and breaking down. This can happen because the effects of heroin make you feel relaxed and you often do not move for long periods of time. Because of this dizzy/overly relaxed state of mind, many people get into car accidents if driving/other accidents occur. If you do get addicted, the withdrawal symptoms are not fun. You will feel nauseous, abdominal pain, sweat a lot, shake, get agitated a lot easier, feel depressed, muscle spasm, and crave what will make it all go away the quickest, heroin. This is because of the response to the Hasselman 6 sudden change of taking away the heroin which your mind and body are used to at this point.
The more heroin you take, the more you need. Your tolerance to it raises and you will need to take more than your last dose after a while to get the same effects. Like a lot of other hard drugs, if people are taking this drug while pregnant and the baby survives, the baby will most likely come out being addicted as well because of sharing the same body with the mother.
Heroin can be taken in three different ways. It can be snorted, smoked, and injected. Heroin can take minutes or even seconds to kick in, no matter the form though. The snorted form is a chopped up form of it’s original state and looks like pale brown dust. The smoked form is in rolled, marijuana-like joints. The injected form is a liquid and is made with mixing the heroin with warm water and putting it into a syringe. Taking the injected form is the most addictive way to take the drug because it hits faster and is put directly into your bloodstream. Many get addicted after the first try. Heroin itself is not the only thing dangerous about it, diseases can be spread by users who use the same
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needles. There are different names for heroin as well, especially since it is highly illegal. Smack, dope, mud, horse, skag, junk, H, black tar, black pearl, brown sugar, witch hazel, birdie powder, dragon, hero, boy/boi, mexican horse, pluto, and number 2 are all pretty common names for it. It is important to recognize these terms so you know what to look out for and what people who are offering it to you mean. Another reason heroin is dangerous is because of how it is sold. Many people sell things that are not heroin at all, or are laced (mixed with other things) or cat litter etc. because it looks very similar and they can trick people with it. Hasselman 7 You should not take heroin period, but mixing it with other drugs is additionally bad.
Mixing heroin with alcohol is the reason for about half of the deaths associated with heroin. You will get highly delusional, dehydrated, and have lack of oxygen. Mixing heroin with benzodiazepines can also cause death and danger because of similar effects of it with alcohol and from the fact benzodiazepines often kill by themselves, there is definitely no need to mix the two. Mixing an upper and a downer drug is called a “speedball” and is pretty common. When it comes to the upper cocaine and the downer heroin though, it is more dangerous. Mixing the two has more of a chance of overdosing with the fact that cocaine comes down a lot faster than heroin. Your gradual heroin overdosage is masked by the cocaine until the cocaine wears off and you die. You should not mix most opioids with other opioids, prescribed or not. This will obviously double the effects and dangers because they are attacking the same parts of the body.
Like heroin, meth is a highly dangerous drug that can sweep from underneath you and you can easily become addicted. This is because no matter what internal damage it is causing you, you will feel good on the outside. Meth is a class A Drug, meaning that it is illegal to have, give away, or sell. Meth does a lot of damage, specifically to the brain.
Users who are addicted especially, experience a lot of anxiety and depression caused by withdrawal from lack of the drug. Meth
damages systems in the brain that regulate emotions. Meth also disables the ability to experience happiness without it. Confusion, panic, and thoughts of suicide are also common. “How did I get here , what did i do so wrong?
It’s very hard to be a heroin addict and have a normal, properly functioning life. Most of the times addicts cannot hold stable jobs, so there is not a stable income coming in, which in turn results in these individuals becoming homeless, or turning to criminal activity to support their drug use. It is not easy to maintain a healthy lifestyle when you struggle with an addiction. I’ve seen first hand with family members how quickly your life spirals out of control, and how hard it can be to get back on your feet once you’re addicted. If people using heroin are taking it intravenously, there are a number of risks that come with that as well. Unclean needles can cause people to contract HIV or Hepatitis, and other infectious diseases if they use dirty puddles of water to cook their drugs. The veins of heroin addicts can also become damaged. On top of all that, if these addicts aren’t using clean needles, abscesses can form wherever they’re injecting drugs into the body, which can be very dangerous. For all of the reasons above, the cons of taking heroin certainly outweigh the
Opioid addiction is a tragedy that affects countless of Americans on a daily basis. Almost everyone is acquainted to someone, who suffers from opioid addiction. Everyone, but specifically family and friends of the victims to opioid addiction need to understand why their loved ones are so susceptible to becoming addicted to opioids. The word opioid in itself is complex to define, but it entails a variety of prescription medications. Most opioids are used as pain management medications and qualify as CII medications also known as narcotics. They are supposed to be used on an “as needed” basis, but that is not the case for many users of opioids. Opioids cause great fear in the health community because they are easily addictive and
...e to illnesses, and heavy users report side effects, including severe depression, lethargy, anxiety and fearfulness. Methamphetamine is relatively simple to make and was the subject of the hit television series “Breaking Bad”.
Heroin is one of the most dangerous drugs in the world. When using heroin, people run the risk of developing serious “infectious diseases” such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis (The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2014, para 10). Above all, heroin use often results in death. The DEA Strategic Intelligence Section (2016), who prepared the 2016 National Heroin Threat Assessment Summary claims that heroin is the most fatal drug compared to other drugs because heroin related deaths occur at a much higher rate. In 2014 cocaine users outnumbered heroin users by about three and a half to one, yet there were twice as many heroin related deaths compared to that of cocaine (p. 9). One of the main causes of the large amount of death is a result of what dealers are lacing their heroin with. Fentanyl, a drug that is considered “50” to “100” times stronger than morphine (NIDA, 2016, para 1), is being used by dealers to mix in with their heroin in order to increase its effects and the quantity of their product. Because of how strong fentanyl-laced heroin is, the possibility of overdosing rises, which is the effect that numerous addicts seek out to attain. In the article “Spiked”, written by Maggie Lee (2015), Lieutenant Rick Mason from the Atlanta Police Department emphasizes, “… if somebody OD’s, that’s who [heroin addicts] want to buy their heroin from because it’s the strongest and it must be the best” (para 22). Heroin addicts chase the powerful batches, often asking around for the dealer selling the batch that is causing mass overdoses. Their high tolerance for heroin lead them to believe that they will not fall victim to a deadly overdose until it is too late. When these users consume what they think is their normal dose, the fentanyl kills them. Those unable to receive prescription medication from a doctor will argue that heroin is a cheap way to relieve pain. While heroin may help to
Eighty percent of heroin users say that their opioid use began with the use of opioids. pain relievers. These same individuals say that they have switched to heroin use. because it is less expensive.
Meth is not only highly addictive it is easily "cooked" in homes across the country. Unlike some drugs, which are derived from natural sources, meth includes an array of dangerous chemicals. These chemicals can include battery acid, rat poison and motor oil.
Methamphetamine addiction can have very bad effects on a person’s brain and mental well-being. Meth triggers the brain to release certain hormones such...
“Meth, not even once” is a popular phrase that is associated with this drug. This drug has many known horrible effects associated with it, plus many effects more I am sure are going to be discovered over time. I am intending to cover the history, effects, the different categories of meth abuse, and the withdrawal effects of Methamphetamine in this paper, and what to do if you suspect someone you know is using meth.
Methamphetamine is a stimulant for the central nervous system (O’Connor et al., 2006). This particular drug affects the pleasure sensors in the body by accelerating them to an extreme level (Siebel & Mange, 2009). Meth causes the brain to receive an abundance of dopamine, a chemical which is responsible for the sense of gratification (Siebel & Mange). According to the authors, a meth user’s brain can receive over one thousand percent of the normal levels of dopamine. This abundance of joy, commonly known as a high, can typically persist anywhere from eight hours to as long as twenty-four hours. After prolonged use, tachyphylaxis takes effect (Watanabe-Galloway, Ryan, Hansen, Hullsiek, Muli, & Malone, 2009). This is when the user does not get the same high that they had previously received from a particular dose (Watanabe-Galloway et al.). According to the authors, to fix this requires the user to increase their meth dose. After a user continuously consumes meth, they begin to lose their ability to feel pleasu...
Heroin is consumed usually 3 main ways: cut then snorted, smoked, or injected. When being cut, the heroin is placed in a straight line then snorted up and through the nasal cavity. Smoked, heroin is placed in pipe (like a marijuana pipe), then heated, and inhaled. Lastly heroin can be heated to a liquid form mixed with water and injected into veins and muscles under the skin.
Habit Turned Addiction Engaging in the typically adult activity of smoking takes Holden back to the stress-free life of his childhood when he faces the stresses of his current moment, but morphs into an act of escapism that he cannot break free of. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden, a 16 year old boy, fails out of his school, Pencey, and embarks on a journey unlike no other. Holden goes on dates, meets family, and new people that stick with him along his journey, and goes to old childhood landmarks, such as museums. Holden is a huge representation of someone struggling to find their way, and making decisions that lead to sudden change in the moment and throughout the whole novel.
When people hear the word addiction, most people picture an alcoholic that spends hours a night at the bar, or meth addict that sleeps in the streets and prostitutes herself out to obtain money for another hit, but what various people refuse to realize is that addiction has become an epidemic in the United States. Addiction is everywhere from the UPS man that takes smoke breaks every few delivery’s, to your best friend 's dad whose appears to have everything put together but spends his evenings at the casino. In my opinion, it 's essential to share your story, I’m restless to tell you experience with addiction.
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Drug addiction is a very big problem in today’s society. Many people have had their lives ruined due to drug addiction. The people that use the drugs don’t even realize that they have an addiction. They continue to use the drug not even realizing that their whole world is crashing down around them. Drug addicts normally lose their family and friends due to drug addiction.
The Vietnam soldiers were some of the very first people to suffer from heroin addiction. Psychiatrist Dr. Robert DuPont is a pioneer doctor in drug abuse treatment, he conducted studies in Washington D.C. in 1969 of heroin addicts, and then convinced the mayor to allow him to provide methadone to the heroin addicts, this resulted in the city’s crime rate dropping. The cost of addiction can be devastating to the person and the person’s family. People trade in their cars, clothing and shelter just to get a fix for their addiction. The cost of rehabilitation is outrageous, unless you are attending a free one it can cost up to 1000 dollars a week.