The Doctor is IN. (10.00am)The following information are taken from John
Murtagh's "General practise".
Drug abusers have the following permanent damages:
LSD: severe hallucinations suicidal tendencies caused by unpredictable
selfdamaging behaviours chronic exposure causes brain damages . Chromosomal
breakdown.
Amphetamines: High risk of death for overdose, hallucinations, temporary
psychosis.
Barbiturates: Death for overdose or as a result of withdrawal, addiction,
convulvions, severe liver damage.
Narcotics (opiates and heroin): Death for uncontrolled usage, mental
deterioration, destruction of brain and liver, hepatitis, embolisms.
Cocaine: Death for overdose, heart attacks (sudden death caused by
unrecoverable arrhythmias, seizures, mental disorder, severe and sometimes
unrecoverable respiratory damage.
Marjuana: Tendence towards stronger narcotics, cerebral lesions.
Glue sniffing: lung/brain/liver permanent damage. Death through suffucation
or choking.
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pLEASE, TAKE A LOOK AT THESE EFFECTS:
HEROIN AND NARCOTIC ABUSE : Withdrawal effects:
anxiety and panic
irritability
chill and shivering
loss of appetite
nausea and vomiting
lacrimation/insomnia
tiredness
muscle cramps and aches
abdominal colics
diarrhoea
Complications:
Medical: respiratory depression which may include fatal cardio-pulmonary
collapse.
Thrombosis, abscesses, ulceration of the skin caused by injection.
Distal septic complications such as septicaemia, infective endocarditis,
lung abscess, osteomyelitis, ophthalmitis.
Viral infections: hepatitis B, C, HIV infection.
Neurological complications: transverse myelitis, nerve trauma.
(Social effects: alienation from family, loss of employment, criminal
activity, such as theft, burglary, prostitution, drug trafficking).
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