Opioid receptor

From an early age, we are taught not to do drugs. Drugs can harm us, drugs can make us do things we wouldn't normally do, and drugs can kill us. With this information people still do drugs, people still get addicted to illegal substances that can affect their brains and cost them their lives. With all the thousands of types of drugs what is truly the worst? Is it meth, heroin, or cocaine? Studies and statistics can show the answer to this question clearly the worst illegal drug is meth. While…

Creation of penalties for opium overdose Vignesh Lalgudi Why are opioids such as problem in Ohio? Why are taxpayers paying for addicts to receive treatment, then to get addicted again? Could we fine the addict? Could we fine the suppliers for the addict? Unfortunately, addicts and suppliers won’t have the money to pay for fines. So to create a permanent solution for the opioid epidemic, I’m proposing a law stating that if an addict has needed naloxone, then addicts are…

six major drug types, stimulants are considered “uppers” as they increase your energy. Methamphetamines, cocaine, caffeine, and ecstasy are all stimulants. Stimulants destroy the transporters in the brain that recycles dopamine which then causes receptors to hide. When this happens you have a harder…

Drugs can be categorized into various types ranging from stimulants to depressants. Heroin is categorized as a type of opioid drug that usually appears as a white powder. Cocaine is a very addictive stimulant drug that produces short term bursts of energy and has dangerous effects such as raising the heart rate. Alcohol is classified as a depressant drug because it slows down the central nervous system causing a decrease in reaction time and intellectual performance. LSD is referred to as a…

In 2011, a total of 263,979 EMS runs were made to an overdose victim making 1.7% of all emergency calls related to opioid overdose (Faul et al., 2015). On the EMS runs, Naloxone was either administered to patients intranasally, intramuscularly, or intravenously. All methods of administration result in the same hospitalization time and side effects. Intranasal Naloxone can be administered by anyone with minimal training while intravenous and intramuscular Naloxone can only be administered by…

became an addiction after she had hurt her back and somehow progressed to heroin. No one in her family had known she was using heroin until after her accidental overdose. Heroin which can also be known as “smack” is the most misused drug of the opioid class.…

Agmatine is a well known neurotransmitter. It also works as a neuromodulator in certain processes in the body. It is prepared through the removal of a carboxylic group from L-Arginine. It is naturally stored in the neurons and therefore used in the nervous system whenever required. Agmatine was discovered over 100 years ago in 1910 by Kossel. Its mechanisms of actions on different body functions though have just been discovered. Current research shows that agmatine has the potential for use in…

about what heroin is and how it affects you. Heroin is a highly addictive, white or brown powder or black tar, that comes from a flower, the opium poppy that grows in Mexico, Asia, and South America (WebMD). An opioid is an opium like compound that binds to one or more of the three opioid receptors…

depressant drug, is a very commonly used drug for pain relief or endogenous compound that lowers neurotransmission levels, which is to depress or reduce awakening or stimulation, in various places in the brain. Heroin is part of a group called the opioids that are from the opium poppy a very beautiful flower. This drug is highly addictive and can be nearly impossible to overcome…

Beneficial effects of the beta adrenergic antagonists in the treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is not uncommon for the patients to present with two or more disease states at the same time. Thus, the management of such concomitant disease states may be pharmacologically challenging as it is, for example, in the treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and hypertension (HTN) with a compelling indication of the post-myocardial infarction (post-MI).…