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Timber is a natural resource in southeast asia. Timber comes from trees and is important for building stuff like houses. Timber is just the fancy name for wood. Another natural resource in southeast asia is opium. Latex comes from opium. Latex made from Opium contains the harmful drug morphine. Opium makes lots of different thing using its latex. Another natural resource in southeast asia is pearls. Pearls are made by live shelled mollusks. Pearls are made with calcium carbonate in…

Opiates are a common form of analgesics that is used as a temporary treatment for numerous acute pain disorders, such as patients suffering from trauma or those dealing with cancer. The use of opiates is now becoming disputable due to the fact that they are very addictive substances. Opiates are the most formidable and dependable analgesic agents (Howard 2011). It is also known that opiates have the ability to decrease anxiety and create mild sedation and a tangible sense of well-being. The use…

When someone uses drugs, he or she is generally looking for some kind of benefit, or “high”. This paper is about drug addiction and its possible causes. There are many likely causes that would allow for someone to become addicted to drugs. Even though there are many possible factors that lead to an individual becoming addicted , in the following text I will be focusing on the social cause of drug use and how they can cause drug use to become a learned and addictive behavior. Today’s society…

Pain Medication Drug Abuse Americans are obsessed with popping pills. Our culture believes that a pill will cure anything from the common cold to cancer. Big pharmaceuticals have spent billions of dollars developing and marketing drugs to the young and old. While drugs are beneficial in many ways, there are some major disadvantages to being a society so heavily dependent on drugs. One of those disadvantages is unintentional drug abuse. Many times a doctor will prescribe a drug for pain and…

When someone goes to the doctor because they are in pain doctors give them opioids also called opiates and narcotics which is a type of pain medication. People that take opioids for a long period of time become dependent on them or addicted and in the long run not good for people due to their side effects. Also, the risk of overdose higher with opioids. There need to be stricter regulations for doctors being able to prescribe these kinds of drugs long term due to that many patients that are…

Homemade Cough Drops Basic cough Drops If you are feeling sick, this should be your go-to cough drop recipe. It is made with great ingredients that help suppress a cough and boost your immune system. Here’s what you’ll need: • 1/2 cup coconut oil, room temperature • 1/2 cup raw local honey • 1 drop of Eucalyptus Essential Oil Here’s what you’ll do: Put your coconut oil into a mixer bowl and using a hand mixer, beat it until it’s whipped. Then add your honey and whip until it is…

Analgesics are a group of drugs used to alleviate pain with their various structural and physiological characteristics. Due to the high diversity of the human body, there are different groups of analgesics that are programmed to assist with pain in different parts of the body. One of the first group of analgesics produced are Narcotic Alkaloids. This group was obtained to reduce and block the activation of the pain in the neurons of the gray matter of the spinal cord and at certain receptor…

Opioids, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and local anaesthetics are three types of analgesic drugs that have been studied as potential analgesic agents in fish.16 Opioid analgesic drugs exert their effects through the activation of mu-, delta- and kappa-opioid receptors, thus inhibiting and modulating pain signals.88 Morphine is a pure mu-opioid receptor agonist with a great hypoalgesic effect and very used in veterinary medicine.89 Since pure mu-agonist opioids cause addiction in…

After While Krokodil Krokodil is an opioid derivative of codeine. The drug was made to mirror the effects of a pharmaceutical drug, no longer in use, called desomorphine. Krokodile is a homemade version, that is much cheaper then heroin, and has horrible side effects due to the dangerous solvents used when cooking the drug. Krokodil is highly addictive, and is injected into the body. The sites of the injection will develop scale-like skin, and have infected ulcerations. There are very few…

What is an Opioid? “Drugs are refined from or are synthetic versions of the opium poppy’s active ingredients” (Inaba/Power Point). Typically, opioids contain, opium, morphine, codeine, heroin and others. Codeine (also known as cough syrup, lean or purple drank), is an example of an opioid. Lean is a drink that rappers have made popular. This gives me the idea that those who abuse this drug are just following along with the trend. What I mean by following the trend is, they decide to use it…