Heroin: And Other Poems

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Eason K, Naughton P (13 March 2012). "First murder charge over heroin mix that killed 400". Times Online. London . Retrieved 20 July 2012. Diamorphine was first synthesized in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright, an English chemist working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London who had been experimenting combining morphine with various acids. He boiled anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride for several hours and produced a more potent, acetylated form of morphine which is now called diacetylmorphine or morphine diacetate. He sent the compound to F. M. Pierce of Owens College in Manchester for analysis. Pierce told Wright: A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away, though more than one dose may be needed.

If there are no issues, you’ll usually live at home while you switch to maintenance therapy or go through detox. sepulfreak (8 July 2005). "Erowid Experience Vaults: Heroin – Catching the Waves – 41495". Erowid.org. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012 . Retrieved 20 July 2012.There are medicines being developed to help with the withdrawal process. The FDA approved lofexidine, a non-opioid medicine designed to reduce opioid withdrawal symptoms. If heroin is taken with other drugs, particularly other sedative drugs such as alcohol, then overdose is more likely. Other sedating drugs – such as benzodiazepine tranquillisers or methadone – are also linked with deaths from heroin overdose.

If you're addicted to heroin and want to stop, you can ask a GP or local drug treatment service for help.Heroin often contains additives, such as sugar, starch, or powdered milk, that can clog blood vessels leading to the lungs, liver, kidneys, or brain, causing permanent damage. Also, sharing drug injection equipment and having impaired judgment from drug use can increase the risk of contracting infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis (see "Injection Drug Use, HIV, and Hepatitis"). Can a person overdose on heroin? Uchtenhagen AA (March 2011). "Heroin maintenance treatment: from idea to research to practice" (PDF). Drug and Alcohol Review. 30 (2): 130–7. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00266.x. PMID 21375613. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2021 . Retrieved 20 April 2018. Your key worker will help you decide between 2 different approaches to stopping heroin – maintenance therapy or detox: Adverse effects A 2010 study ranking various illegal and legal drugs based on statements by drug-harm experts. Heroin was found to be the second overall most dangerous drug. [58] The head of Bayer's research department reputedly coined the drug's new name of "heroin", based on the German heroisch which means "heroic, strong" (from the ancient Greek word "heros, ήρως"). Bayer scientists were not the first to make heroin, but their scientists discovered ways to make it, and Bayer led the commercialization of heroin. [90]

Danmark redo för skattebetalt heroin"[Denmark ready for tax-paid heroin] (in Swedish). November 2008. Archived from the original on 3 December 2008 . Retrieved 30 November 2008. Yellow List: List of Narcotic Drugs Under International Control" (PDF). International Narcotics Control Board. December 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2012 . Retrieved 5 May 2006. Referring URL = "Yellow List". Archived from the original on 21 June 2006 . Retrieved 21 June 2006. Heroin is often cut with other things, for example highly-potent opioids (like fentanyls) which are even more dangerous than heroin itself. In common with many other opioids, the Marquis field test produces a violet/purple coloration. In the mass spectrum, the major ions are m/z = 327, 43, 369, 268, 310, 42, 215 and 204. Using gas chromatography, the limit of detection of both diamorphine and 6-monoacetylmorphine is 100 μg/L. This poem really cuts deep. I can relate to this on every level. Not only did "my master" take control of every aspect, it took control over my every move and breath. Every time I used to...Large doses of heroin can cause fatal respiratory depression, and the drug has been used for suicide or as a murder weapon. The serial killer Harold Shipman used diamorphine on his victims, and the subsequent Shipman Inquiry led to a tightening of the regulations surrounding the storage, prescribing and destruction of controlled drugs in the UK. Users report an intense rush, an acute transcendent state of euphoria, which occurs while diamorphine is being metabolized into 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM) and morphine in the brain. Some believe that heroin produces more euphoria than other opioids; one possible explanation is the presence of 6-monoacetylmorphine, a metabolite unique to heroin – although a more likely explanation is the rapidity of onset. While other opioids of recreational use produce only morphine, heroin also leaves 6-MAM, also a psycho- active metabolite.

Naloxone buys a person time until an ambulance arrives, or they can be seen by a medical professional. Severe withdrawal symptoms peak between 24 to 48 hours after the last dose of heroin. They subside after about a week. Heroin and harmful effects

Common side effects include respiratory depression (decreased breathing), dry mouth, drowsiness, impaired mental function, constipation, and addiction. [12] Use by injection can also result in abscesses, infected heart valves, blood-borne infections, and pneumonia. [12] After a history of long-term use, opioid withdrawal symptoms can begin within hours of the last use. [12] When given by injection into a vein, heroin has two to three times the effect of a similar dose of morphine. [3] It typically appears in the form of a white or brown powder. [12] If you think a friend or family member is using heroin, don't wait and hope things will get better. Act right away. The sooner a person gets help, the better. The UK Department of Health's Rolleston Committee Report [34] in 1926 established the British approach to diamorphine prescription to users, which was maintained for the next 40 years: dealers were prosecuted, but doctors could prescribe diamorphine to users when withdrawing. In 1964, the Brain Committee recommended that only selected approved doctors working at approved specialized centres be allowed to prescribe diamorphine and cocaine to users. The law was made more restrictive in 1968. Beginning in the 1970s, the emphasis shifted to abstinence and the use of methadone; currently, only a small number of users in the UK are prescribed diamorphine. [35] I wrote this poem to show the arrogance of an addict. No matter how dismal the situation may be an addict can convince him or herself that things ain't that bad. You cannot scare an addict because an addict has no fear. Even when we see our friends die of overdoses we still think it won't happen to us. What is the scope of heroin use in the United States?". National Institute on Drug Abuse. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018 . Retrieved 10 December 2018.