This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Addiction Side Effects
Irritability |
Poor Sucking Reflex |
Poor Weight Gain |
Siezures |
High Muscle tone |
Automatic Nervous System Dysfunction |
History-Heroin
1874 |
Made in UK pharmacy |
1897 |
Hofman promotes heroin as a safe alternative to morphine |
1914 |
Narcotics act |
1915 |
Heroin black market began |
1924 |
Congress banned production |
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Sources of Opium
Legal |
50% grown in Tasmania |
Illegal |
Golden Triangle - SE Asia
Golden Crescent - Africa |
History-Opium/Morpheme
2100 BC |
Sumerian Clay tablet use |
1500 BC |
Greeks may have used it for sedation |
17th CE |
British control of Opium |
1750 |
Opium became a commodity |
1804 |
Isolated by F-Seturner |
1817 |
First distrubuted by seturner and co |
1827 |
Fully commercialised |
1839-1842 |
First Opium Wars |
1856-1860 |
Second Opium Wars |
1843: Dr Wood invents Hypodermic Needle
After the American Civil War, many of the troops were addicted to morphine, they were given it to help them re acclimate to normal life
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Effects of Morphine
Pain Relief |
Binds to receptors in brain as an agonist |
Lowers Brain's perception of Bain |
Euphoria |
Duration of Effect
Morphine |
Activation: 20 Mins
Lasts: 4 Hours |
Meperidine |
Activation: 15 Minutes
Lasts: 2 Hours |
Fentanyl |
Activation: 5 Minutes
Lasts 45 Mins |
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