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2006-12-11 06:58:03
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answer #1
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answered by jerrycarr99029 3
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here is what I know from school hope it helps...
its short-term effects
The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours.After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria ("rush") accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following this initial euphoria, the user goes "on the nod," an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Other effects included slowed and slurred speech, slow gait, constricted pupils, droopy eyelids, impaired night vision, vomiting, constipation.
long-term effects
Long-term effects of heroin appear after repeated use for some period of time.Chronic users may develop collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, cellulites, and liver disease. Pulmonary complications, including various types of pneumonia, may result from the poor health condition of the abuser, as well as from heroin's depressing effects on respiration.In addition to the effects of the drug itself, street heroin may have additives that do not really dissolve and result in clogging the blood vessels that lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys, or brain. This can cause infection or even death of small patches of cells in vital organs. With regular heroin use, tolerance develops. This means the abuser must use more heroin to achieve the same intensity or effect.
As higher doses are used over time, physical dependence and addiction develop. With physical dependence, the body has adapted to the presence of the drug and withdrawal symptoms may occur if use is reduced or stopped. Withdrawal, which in regular abusers may occur as early as a few hours after the last administration, produces drug craving, restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), kicking movements ("kicking the habit"), and other symptoms. Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 48 and 72 hours after the last does and subside after about a week. Sudden withdrawal by heavily dependent users who are in poor health can be fatal.
2006-12-11 06:43:51
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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You can find a lot of good, objective information in the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm
It is probably the best overall review of the subject ever written.
If you read it, you will find that most of the people here don't have a clue what they are talking about.
2006-12-12 05:45:16
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answered by Cliff Schaffer 4
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If one of you is doing heroin you have about a zero chance of making a relationship work. Get the person some help now! They will not give a crap about you or anything else.
2006-12-11 06:37:06
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answered by Candy C 2
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First it gives you a very warm feeling in your stomach. Then you have the equivalent of a full-body orgasm. (someone once described it as "kissing the face of God")
Then you feel pretty high and serene. Then you might fall asleep.
Make sure you don't take too much and OD.
2006-12-11 06:38:18
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answered by bettysdad 5
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It takes over their thinking. They stop eating, working, thinking!! The only thing that they can think of is their next fix and how to get it. Their body starts to break down and stop functioning. Get them help now.
2006-12-11 06:39:17
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answered by mayihelpyou 5
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i'm sorry honey, go to www.google.com and type in "affects of heroin" you will find lots of information. good luck.
2006-12-11 06:36:28
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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