Pill Popping For Anxiety & Depression
Even though some drugs with alcohol can cause death, many people use
tranquilizers freely with alcohol. The undesirable effects of these substances increase when they are used in combination with
alcohol and other drugs. Tranquilizers are involved in
about one-quarter of all drug-related deaths.
The Opioids
The word opioid describes all drugs with morphine-like
effects. These drugs bind to and act upon opioid receptor
sites in the brain. The opioids include a variety of
substances, some of which occur naturally while others
are synthetic.
Natural Opioids
Several forms of opioids that resemble opium and heroin
in their effects are manufactured....by the brain.
These substances, called endorphins can also be
made artificially for experimental use.
Research using these endorphins may provide insights
into the mechanisms of pain, pleasure, emotion, and
perception. There is already some evidence that when
individuals suffering from chronic spinal pain are
treated effectively with acupuncture, endorphins are released
into the spinal fluid. The endorphin levels seem
to peak at the moments when the pain-relieving effects
of the acupuncture are most pronounced.
Study of the endorphins has led to the mapping
of the entire opioid-receptor system. The nerves of the
brain and spinal cord have been found to contain specific
sites to which opioids must bind in order to produce
their effects. Morphine and similar drugs block
pain signals to the brain because they fit into these sites
like a key into a lock.
Work on the possibility that drug addiction may
yield to endorphin therapy has begun in several laboratories.
Some scientists suspect that addiction is a deficiency
disease: The addict 's craving for and dependence
on opioids may be caused by chronic underproduction
of natural endorphins.
One is that the opioids themselves suppress
endorphin production; the other is that some
people have a genetically caused deficiency in
endorphin production.
While the endorphins have been isolated and examined
directly by biochemists, behavioral researchers
have been able to study their action either by injecting
endorphins into subjects and observing their analgesic
(pain-killing) effects or by injecting a drug called nalaxone
which blocks the effects of the endorphin. If a procedure
produces analgesia when nalaxone is not used
but does not affect pain when nalaxone is present, there
is indirect evidence that endorphins mediate the pain reducing
effects of the procedure. For example, research
done in China has shown that injections of nalaxone
greatly reduce the analgesic effects of acupuncture.
The Opiates
Archaeologists think that the opium poppy's
seemingly miraculous powers were first discovered
by Neolithic farmers on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean
Sea. This knowledge spread from Asia Minor
across the ancient world. In the seventeenth century
opium was praised by a prominent physician as God's
greatest gift to humanity for the relief of its sufferings.
In 1804 the most important active ingredient of opium,
morphine was identified. It as a painkiller of known reliability.
Opium and its derivatives were also used to
treat coughs, diarrhea, fever,
epilepsy, melancholy, diabetes, skin ulcers, constipation,
and a variety of other ills well into the 1800s. Many
people became addicted to opium and its derivatives after
it was given to them for medicinal purposes; the
nineteenth- century English writers Thomas De Quincy
and Samuel Coleridge are examples. Opium derivatives
were popular as home remedies, and until the 1860s
there were few restrictions on who might sell or purchase
them. One of the largest abuses of the drug was
to sedate infants.
Working mothers and women who
tended babies for pay used these home remedies to keep
infants sleepy and calm. By the late 1800s many physicians
were becoming concerned about the problem of
opium addiction. As morphine was at first
considered a safe substitute
for opium, heroin which was produced for the
first time in 1874 by boiling morphine in acetic acid,
was at first hailed as a safe and effective substitute for
morphin was soon proved to be horribly untrue, and
today heroin is involved in over 90
percent of narcotic addiction cases.
Heroin can be injected, smoked, or inhaled.
After the drug is injected, the user feels a
"rush" or "flash" as the nervous system reacts to its presence.
Addicts describe the rush as an extraordinarily
pleasurable sensation, one that is similar in many ways
to sexual orgasm, only more intense and involving the
whole body. Following the rush, the user experiences
the "nods," a lingering state of euphoric bliss.
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tranquilizers freely with alcohol. The undesirable effects of these substances increase when they are used in combination with
alcohol and other drugs. Tranquilizers are involved in
about one-quarter of all drug-related deaths.
The Opioids
The word opioid describes all drugs with morphine-like
effects. These drugs bind to and act upon opioid receptor
sites in the brain. The opioids include a variety of
substances, some of which occur naturally while others
are synthetic.
Natural Opioids
Several forms of opioids that resemble opium and heroin
in their effects are manufactured....by the brain.
These substances, called endorphins can also be
made artificially for experimental use.
Research using these endorphins may provide insights
into the mechanisms of pain, pleasure, emotion, and
perception. There is already some evidence that when
individuals suffering from chronic spinal pain are
treated effectively with acupuncture, endorphins are released
into the spinal fluid. The endorphin levels seem
to peak at the moments when the pain-relieving effects
of the acupuncture are most pronounced.
Study of the endorphins has led to the mapping
of the entire opioid-receptor system. The nerves of the
brain and spinal cord have been found to contain specific
sites to which opioids must bind in order to produce
their effects. Morphine and similar drugs block
pain signals to the brain because they fit into these sites
like a key into a lock.
Work on the possibility that drug addiction may
yield to endorphin therapy has begun in several laboratories.
Some scientists suspect that addiction is a deficiency
disease: The addict 's craving for and dependence
on opioids may be caused by chronic underproduction
of natural endorphins.
One is that the opioids themselves suppress
endorphin production; the other is that some
people have a genetically caused deficiency in
endorphin production.
While the endorphins have been isolated and examined
directly by biochemists, behavioral researchers
have been able to study their action either by injecting
endorphins into subjects and observing their analgesic
(pain-killing) effects or by injecting a drug called nalaxone
which blocks the effects of the endorphin. If a procedure
produces analgesia when nalaxone is not used
but does not affect pain when nalaxone is present, there
is indirect evidence that endorphins mediate the pain reducing
effects of the procedure. For example, research
done in China has shown that injections of nalaxone
greatly reduce the analgesic effects of acupuncture.
The Opiates
Archaeologists think that the opium poppy's
seemingly miraculous powers were first discovered
by Neolithic farmers on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean
Sea. This knowledge spread from Asia Minor
across the ancient world. In the seventeenth century
opium was praised by a prominent physician as God's
greatest gift to humanity for the relief of its sufferings.
In 1804 the most important active ingredient of opium,
morphine was identified. It as a painkiller of known reliability.
Opium and its derivatives were also used to
treat coughs, diarrhea, fever,
epilepsy, melancholy, diabetes, skin ulcers, constipation,
and a variety of other ills well into the 1800s. Many
people became addicted to opium and its derivatives after
it was given to them for medicinal purposes; the
nineteenth- century English writers Thomas De Quincy
and Samuel Coleridge are examples. Opium derivatives
were popular as home remedies, and until the 1860s
there were few restrictions on who might sell or purchase
them. One of the largest abuses of the drug was
to sedate infants.
Working mothers and women who
tended babies for pay used these home remedies to keep
infants sleepy and calm. By the late 1800s many physicians
were becoming concerned about the problem of
opium addiction. As morphine was at first
considered a safe substitute
for opium, heroin which was produced for the
first time in 1874 by boiling morphine in acetic acid,
was at first hailed as a safe and effective substitute for
morphin was soon proved to be horribly untrue, and
today heroin is involved in over 90
percent of narcotic addiction cases.
Heroin can be injected, smoked, or inhaled.
After the drug is injected, the user feels a
"rush" or "flash" as the nervous system reacts to its presence.
Addicts describe the rush as an extraordinarily
pleasurable sensation, one that is similar in many ways
to sexual orgasm, only more intense and involving the
whole body. Following the rush, the user experiences
the "nods," a lingering state of euphoric bliss.
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www.theliberatormethod.com/Welcome.html