Can Drugs Change Your Personality
PERSONALITY Your personality is the way you think, feel and act. It’s ever-changing, and it influences how you[...]
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Heroin tolerance is is a complex process of neuroadaptation. It is defined by reduced response to one or more of heroin’s effects after repeated administration. Essentially, nerve cells (neurons) with opioid receptors become less sensitive to heroin, and more heroin is needed to achieve the same intensity of effects.
Heroin tolerance has two distinct categories; innate and acquired.
Studies show that opioid receptors may take up to 15-days to reset after activation. Meaning that after a single activation of an opioid receptor it may take upwards of 15-days before it can be reactivated. As heroin users must use on average 4-times per day, it does not take very long before there is an insufficient number of receptors available to maintain the heroin addict’s needs.
PERSONALITY Your personality is the way you think, feel and act. It’s ever-changing, and it influences how you[...]
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I’m having trouble peeing Urine retention is an inability to pee, and we get it, this is not an[...]
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Available resources for additional information on the causes and consequences of drug and alcohol use and addiction and[...]
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How many heroin overdoses in 2016? In 2016 there were 63,632 drug overdose fatalities. Of those fatalities, 42,249[...]
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Nobody completely understands why a person who drinks less than most, becomes an alcoholic, while another person who[...]
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INTRODUCTION Addiction is tenacious seeking and compulsive use of a chemical substance without regard for consequences. On the[...]
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Chronic opiate use inhibits the pituitary gland from releasing luteinizing hormone (LH) into the circulatory system. LH is[...]
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Heroin is in a class of drugs known as opioids. Many people think that when a person uses[...]
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How You Can Die From Heroin Withdrawal There are not many rules about what “not” to do when[...]
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WHO IS MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO ALCOHOL? Those with higher personality trait inhibitedness are most susceptible to alcoholism. The[...]
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Understanding Addiction Drug addiction is a neurobehavioral syndrome characterized by tenacious seeking, and compulsive using plus an inability[...]
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WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME Chronic substance abuse may lead to physical dependence, which is a biological condition characterized by susceptibility[...]
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Alphabetical This is an alphabetical list of opiate terms and definitions. We compiled them here in one place[...]
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Tolerance to heroin Heroin tolerance is is a complex process of neuroadaptation. It is defined by reduced response[...]
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“Doctors who enable addicts betray their profession,” – Nick DiGiulio. United States Attorney Zane David Memeger, and Drug[...]
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Why was heroin invented? At the time heroin was invented, the only effective medication for pain, diarrhea and[...]
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Heroin targets your brain’s reward system by flooding the circuit with dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter present in[...]
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Androgens and Testosterone Androgens are sex hormones. They are made primarily in the male testes, female ovaries,[...]
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What is Heroin? Heroin is a highly addictive derivative of opium, that produces intense feelings of euphoria, when[...]
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Drug Addiction Treatment: The process of drug addiction treatment can be summed up in one word – “change.” [...]
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