HEROIN

Heroin

Heroin is a highly addictive drug and illegal in most countries of the world. It belongs to opiates, which is the most abused and the action faster and is classified, as well as those within the substance of the central nervous system depressant. Heroin is prepared from morphine, a substance that is found naturally in the lines lactirífaros of the capsule or the Papaver somniferum poppy, from which is extracted by cutting surface where supura latex (opium). Usually sold in the form of white powder or brown, or as a black sticky substance known on the streets as "rubber" or "black tar".

Source

In 1883, Heinrich Dreser (chemical), an opioid isolated again thanks to the acetylation of morphine hydrochloride, obtaining diacetylmorphine, which is the scientific name of the heroine. Interestingly, initially thought of heroin as a substitute for morphine, which produced great addiction, and that is why his name was chosen. In a short time showed that addiction generated by using this compound was much more intense compared to morphine.

Perhaps

The action of this new drug on the airways was such that it was believed that he had finally been defeated tuberculosis, which Bayer registered trademark Heroin (Heroin). This name under which this new synthetic product has come to be known, was created by combining the "Heros" Latin (hero) and the medical suffix "-in" (as in caffeine / caffeine), at the same time creating the very conotación resale of "Femme Heroine" (Germany at that time was very francófila). Heroin is known as unrefined brown sugar (brown sugar) and refined and as horse (horse) or simply abbreviated as "H".

Forms of adulteration

Like all illicit sale of opiates, heroin can adulterarse with quinine, lactose, sugar, borax and other CNS depressants drugs and sedatives such as barbiturates or contaminated with bacteria, viruses, fungi or particles. Authorities have reported some cases of total replacement of heroin pentazocine. The drug called Speedball is nothing but cocaine mixed with heroin. Various urban legends say that the heroin on the street can also be cut with strychnine or other poisons, ends that are not precisely documented.
Because heroin users do not know the real strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at risk of overdose or death.

Consumer

Heroin is a drug of abuse with greater capacity to generate dependency.
Its consumption is performed by inhalation, direct or steamed, transmucosal, intravenous, oral, intramuscular. Can also be infected and pichar

Effects

Among others, heroin leads to the following effects: sedation, euphoria, analgesia, respiratory depression (leading cause of death by overdose in users of this substance), suppression of the cough, miosis, nausea and vomiting, gastrointestinal effects, cardiovascular, kidney , urinary. Because of the tendency to be used intravenously to the fact the same needle sharing among addicts can cause the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases.

Therapeutic uses

Since its appearance, heroin was used mainly to treat tuberculosis by its ability to suppress the cough reflex. It soon became its anesthetic effect was not greater than that of morphine, but was more active so it could be used in lower doses achieved the same effect with the attendant benefits at the level of accumulation in the tissues. However, something more different from the morphine: certain stimulatory effects and not just analgesics, which had long been recommended as a cure for the habit produced by morphine. Currently heroin hydrochloride is rarely used and only as antitussive in severe cases. Besides the effect of heroin is more potent than that of morphine, but less durable.

The users who share needles (a practice that is gradually falling into disuse) injection or other materials are at risk of becoming infected with HIV, hepatitis and some any infectious disease. In Spain, 59% of those affected by the AIDS virus, were infected through intravenous (injected) between 1981 and 1998. [1].
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