What does heroin do to your body?!
Question: What does heroin do to your body?
Answers:
Heroin is a hard core opiate that basically short circuits the brain by tricking the body to release large doses of pain suppressing hormones like endorphins and releases pleasure producing hormones like serotonin. This causes a user to feel what amounts to an indescribable rush of euphoria, perhaps delirium as well. Users describe a heroine high as something that feels like the best orgasm on the planet coupled with blissful relaxation.
Heroin can have a variety of affects on the body. It can suppress your urge to urinate, cause your pupils to retract, it can slow breathing and heart rate. In cases of overdose, the user almost always dies from either heart or respiratory failure. And, of course, heroin is extremely addictive neurologically and psychologically, which is why it is so hard to quit. Many heavy heroin addicts end up on regiments of methadone or other similar drugs pretty much for the rest of their lives.
With drawl from heroin can lead to intense feelings of anxiety, the desire to use the drug, it can cause tremors (random spasms), induce very severe pain through out the body and can lead to heart failure. Because a heroin addict can potentially die from with drawl, it is important that a recovering addict go to either a detox clinic or hospital to receive doses of methadone over a period of time to ween them off the heroin.
Other affects on the body include drowsiness, delirium, disorientation, confusion, coma, dry mouth and hypoventilation that can lead to respiratory failure and hypotension that can lead to heart failure. And it is a powerful pain killer as well. So a person rarely feels pain while on the drug. But it is also easy to build a tollerance to heroin. When it is injected, heroin has its greatest impact on the body is potentially more deadly than ingesting the drug any other way.
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