Heroin or diamotfin is a kind of alkaloid aploid. Heroin is a 3.6-disetyl derivative of the other name morphine that is disetyl morphine, and is synthesized therefrom by acetylation. The white crystalline form is generally a hydrochloride salt, diarmorphine hydrochloride. heroin can cause addiction.
heroin is a highly addictive illegal drug, heroin is the most abused opiate group. heroin is processed from morphin, a natural substance extracted from the seeds of certain varieties of poppy plants. pure heroin bebentuk white powder with a bitter taste. most heroin is sold in the form of white or brown powder and is usually mixed with milk powder, sugar, flour, or quinine. a person who consumes heroin without the consent of a physician or heroin abuse is likely to have an impact that leads them to death. heroin is also in the form of black tar, and the color can vary from brown to black. heroin is used by injecting it into the veins, muscles, and sucked through the nose.
Like most drugs, the use of heroin has short-term and long-term effects. Whether injected, snorted or smoked, heroin will soon begin to affect the central nervous system of the body after its use by its users.
Short Term Effects
Shortly after using, a feeling of euphoria will come against the user, where they have a warm rinse on the skin, dry mouth and feeling "heavy" up to the legs. In the early stages, the user will enter the fantasy world and be sleepy and sometimes often "nodded." His head.
Because heroin suppresses the central nervous system, the user experiences "fantasizing" so that the mental function will become unmanageable. Users will start breathing at a slower rate and their breath can reach the point of respiratory failure and can lead to cessation of the heartbeat.
Long Term Effects
For repeated and chronic users of heroin users will begin to experience the long-term effects of such practices:
Infection of the lining of the heart and valves, usually due to lack of sterile techniques.
Liver disease - about 70-80% of new hepatitis C infections in the United States each year are the result of injecting drug use, and even sharing grunting suction has been linked to hepatitis transmission. Kidney illness.
Pulmonary complications, often associated with infections and skin abscesses, especially among chronic injectors suffering from shredded or collapsed veins In addition to the risk of contracting hepatitis virus, heroin users also have an increased risk of catching human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other blood-borne viruses.
Overdose
The most serious health effects of heroin use are the likelihood of death from an overdose.
Since heroin is an illegal drug and is mixed with other ingredients by various suppliers before it reaches user-level users, those who use drugs never know how strong or pure the heroin they use is important up to them and use it.
Heroin is often mixed with sugar, starch, quinine, and occasionally, strychnine or other toxins, adding other potential hazards. Due to the unknown strength and actual content of the heroin they take, the user is at a great risk of overdose and death.
Addiction
Another effect of the use of harmful heroin is the highly addictive nature of the drug. All heroin users, even those who just smoked or smoked heroin, could become addicted to repeated use.
Over time, heroin users will become increasingly addicted to achieve the same feelings they experience when they first start using.
After a while, the level of tolerance to the drug goes up to a higher level of addiction that they will use heroin in any amount until the effectiveness of the user euphoria has been achieved. When this happens, addicts continue to seek and take medication only to feel "normal." So their dependence becomes highly dependent on medicine.