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Opiates

Opiates. By: Luis Gomez, Sean Ferdinand, Cameron Cooks, M onica C addel. What are Opiates?. Opiates are powerful drugs derived from the poppy plant used to relieve pain. Also known as Narcotics. Can be natural or synthetic. What’s in Opiates.

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Opiates

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  1. Opiates By: Luis Gomez, Sean Ferdinand, Cameron Cooks, Monica Caddel

  2. What are Opiates? • Opiates are powerful drugs derived from the poppy plant used to relieve pain. • Also known as Narcotics. • Can be natural or synthetic.

  3. What’s in Opiates • Natural Opiates derived from dried “milk “of the opium poppy. • Synthetic Opiates manufactured in chemical laboratories.

  4. Examples of Opiates • Opium • Morphine • Codeine • Heroin (most common) • Synthetic

  5. How are Opiates made? • Scratch the immature seed pods of the poppy plants. • Latex leaks out and dries to a sticky yellowish residue that is later scraped off and dehydrated.

  6. Who abuses the drug? • Groups over the age of 26 most commonly abused opiates. • Small percentages in high school and middle school students ranging from 1.6% - 1.5% (as of 2003).

  7. Legal Consequences • If a person is caught using, selling, or manufacturing Opiates they will be arrested • If a person has possession of the drug, you can spend up to 7 years in jail or have a $15,000 fine. • If a person is the dealer and have opiates with the intent to sell them, you can spend anywhere from 5 years to a lifetime in jail, or a $25,000 fine. • If used in public up to months in jail or a $1,000 fine can occur.

  8. Effects on Body • Drowsiness • Mental Confusion • Nausea • Constipation • Depress Respiration

  9. How are the Opiates used? • Injected • Sniffed • Smoked

  10. Danger of using Opiates • Opiates produce a sense of wellbeing or euphoria which can be addictive to some people. • Can produce tolerance in people. • High does can cause death from cardiac or respiratory arrest. • People can overdose by mistake

  11. Opiate Withdrawal • Not life threatening • Low energy • Anxiety • Insomnia • Muscle aches and pains • Vomiting • Diarrhea • Etc.

  12. Sources • http://www.isate.memphis.edu/opiate.html • Textbook pages 183-196

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