HEROIN

BY: BRITTANY RYDALCH

HEALTH 1050-003

What is Heroin?
Diamorphine
Comes from opium poppy plant
comes in a brown or white powder Or black sticky substance
Street names: H, smack, junk, horse, or brown
Opioid analgesic
Often used with cocaine, injected known as a speedball
Smoked known as moonrock

Heroin on the brain

When heroin enters the brain it turns back into morphine, which then binds to
the receptors known as opioid receptors found in many places in the brain
which controls automatic processes critical for life, such as;
blood pressure, arousal, and respiration.

How to use heroin

there are four ways known to use heroin;
injected,
smoked,
snorted,
plugging

Injected
Also known as slamming, banging, shooting up, digging or mainlining.
Black tar heroin unpure
Injected in accessible veins in the arm
First time users-5-20 mg
Repeated users- several hundred mg a day
After a while veins begin to collapse and they have
To find more dangerous ways to; femoral artery in the groin
between toes, veins in the legs.

Smoking
Vaporized to inhale the fumes
Smoked in;
Glass pipe, lightbulbs, or off aluminum foil with a straw
also known as chasing the dragon
Can be used with other drugs such as marijuana and
cocaine

Snorting
User crushes heroin to powder and inhaled through the nose
Heroin is absorbed through the soft tissue in the mucus membrane of the
sinus cavity and straight to the blood stream;

Suppository
also known as plugging
Using an oral syringe user inserts into the anus or female genitals.
The rectum and vaginal canal is where the majority of the drug ends up and
then is taken through the membranes lining their walls.

history
Heroin comes from the poppy plant. Discovered 3400 BCE in Mesopotamia

Chemical analysis- 2 alkaloids- codeine and morphine

history
Diacetylmorphine -1st synthesized in 1847 by C. r. alder wright, an English
chemist at St. Mary's hospital medical school in London.
Experimented by combining morphine and various acids
Several hours of heat resulted in diacetylmorphine

history
23 Years later chemist by the name of Felix Hoffman was instructed by Bayer Company
to acetylate morphine that was less addicting
Instead produced a acetylate form of morphine 2x more potent than morphine
The Bayer research department named it heroisch, German name for heroin meaning
heroic strong
1914- Harrison narcotics tax act passed law to control sale and distribution, they were
only to be prescribed by a physician and only used for medical purposes
1923-1924- classified as schedule 1 drug
1925- banned from sale or distribution
Today considered an illegal drug and possession, use and distribution
results in felony charge and years in prison

overdose
Interactions with depressants such as alcohol or benzodiazepine
Heroin slows your breathing down significantly lack of oxygen
Some have died by choking on their own vomit while unconscious
Naloxone or naltrexone reverse effects of heroin and other opioids and cause
and immediate return of consciousness

Withdrawal
6-24 hours of stopping the drug
Symptoms:
Sweaty, feeling of discomfort or uneasiness, anxiety, depression,
restlessness, priapism, (men), sensitivity of genitals (female), flu like
symptoms, insomnia, cold sweats and chills, severe muscle and bone aches,
nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, involuntary spasm in the limbs

treatment
Methadone treatment along with;
Suboxone, Buprenorphine, and naltrexone All
are Used to help addicts with cravings
Therapy is also recommended to help recover
from the effects, regain normal brain function,
and be able to live with your addiction in a
healthy way

Treatment Centers in Utah

Turning point treatment turning point center
Alpine recovery lodge

journey at willowcreek

Cirque Lodge, Studio Facility lighthouse drug and alcohol addiction recovery
New roads behavioral health

pathways real life recovery

Ascend recovery new roads treatment center

Utah addiction centers
Renaissance ranch

action recovery group

Sherwood hills recovery resort

Odyssey house of Utah pines recovery center

arcadia recovery center lions gate recovery

Heroin Problem in Utah

Prescription drug abuse then users turn to heroin because its cheap and
accessible
Utah is ranked 8th out of 50 states in abuse
2014 a bust of eleven dealers, over
one hundred thirty-six pounds overall of heroin
was seized along with forty regular heroin customers.