Essays Tagged: "opiates"

Should Marijuana Be Legalized for Medical Purposes

1900s, medical usage of marijuana began to decline with the advent of alternative drugs. Injectable opiates and synthetic drugs such as aspirin and barbiturates began to replace marijuana as the physi ...

(9 pages) 608 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

A heoin Term paper, describing what heroin is and how it effects the body

nt "suppresses body actions and it brings on sleep" (Dolan 65). This drug is the most abused of the opiates worldwide as well as addictive in one-fourth of its users.Heroin is produced through a speci ...

(3 pages) 111 0 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Robert Boyle

1896, marathon runners drank a mixture of brandy andstrychnine to help them on their ways and used opiates to control pain during a race.Use of alcohol was very common in the early years of the twent ...

(3 pages) 33 0 4.6 Feb/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The Pains of Withdrawal: An Analysis and Explanation of S.T. Coleridge's "The Pains of Sleep"

e would refer to as the depression he is experiencing, is most likely caused by his withdrawal from Opiates. Also exacerbating the symptoms is the fact that his is still using Ether for his "fits" (Ab ... able. However, when analyzing this poem, the reader can't help but ask if Coleridge's dependency on Opiates contributed heavily to the subject matter. One does not have to be a substance abuse expert ...

(4 pages) 68 0 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Drug Abuse

railroad, brought the opium-smoking habit to the West Coast. Along with cocaine, morphine and other opiates were used freely in patent medicines and doctors' prescriptions, and many people became addi ...

(5 pages) 170 2 2.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Drugs and their consequence.

l railroad, brought the pium-smokinghabit to the West Coast. Along with cocaine, morphine and other opiates were used freely in patent medicines and doctors' prescriptions, and many people became addi ...

(4 pages) 79 0 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Reasons.

usage of this drug began to decline in the 1900's with the advent of alternative drugs.Inject able opiates and other drugs such as aspirin and barbiturates began to replace marijuana. It has been use ...

(2 pages) 80 2 3.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Sydney J Harris talks about how people changed during the last decade.

real life. The author argues that these factors among a few, lead people into isolation and work as opiates, dulling any senses of reality.Firstly Alcohol and Drugs both of which are highly addictive ...

(3 pages) 36 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Changes in opiate use and addiction and in social perceptions of opiates in the USA and England through the 19th and 20th centuries

Amber RobinsonDiscuss changes in patterns of Opiate Use and Addiction and in social perceptions of opiates in the united states and england in the 19th and 20th CenturiesThere has been major shifts i ... tates and england in the 19th and 20th CenturiesThere has been major shifts in the attitude towards opiates and users over the 19th and 20th Century, from its initial state as a medical issue to the c ...

(9 pages) 105 2 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Cocaine Dependency

ct of 1906 was approved, as well as the Harrison Act of 1914 (which outlawed the use of cocaine and opiates in over-the-counter products; the drugs were made available only by prescription). Cocaine u ...

(3 pages) 69 0 3.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Methadone

owsiness, but lasts much longer and does not create the sometimes fatal respiratory depression that opiates do. Its continued use as a heroin substitute eventually restores sexual, immune, and adrenal ...

(3 pages) 56 0 4.1 Dec/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Probation uses and functions in american society.

n. These tests are in most cases called the 5-way drug screen which screen for: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, methamphetamines and P.C.P. In severe cases the offender will have to take what is called t ...

(4 pages) 124 0 0.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Patterns of opiate use in the USA and England

Amber RobinsonDiscuss changes in patterns of Opiate Use and Addiction and in social perceptions of opiates in the united states and england in the 19th and 20th CenturiesThere has been major shifts i ... tates and england in the 19th and 20th CenturiesThere has been major shifts in the attitude towards opiates and users over the 19th and 20th Century, from its initial state as a medical issue to the c ...

(9 pages) 33 0 3.5 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Critically analyse the concept of addiction with reference to drug misuse.

tent forms such as morphine, heroin and cocaine. They had huge effects on symptoms - especially the opiates for pains and were widely available in Europe as well as in the States. Soon their addictive ...

(9 pages) 99 1 4.3 Sep/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Sex Addiction Description and Treatments

of chemicals or peptides such as endorphins. These peptides are analogous in molecular structure of opiates like morphine yet they are many times more powerful. This paper will define sex addiction, p ...

(4 pages) 82 0 4.5 Dec/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

A brief introduction to the nature of psychoactive drugs

activity, relaxation, numbness, and a pleasurable "buzz". Alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and opiates all qualify as depressants. Opiates are narcotics, medically prescribed pain killers that ar ...

(2 pages) 26 1 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

EVIDENCE BASED MENTAL HEALTH CARE: Alternative therapies in Drug Detoxification

for those suited to an inpatient detox unit, a three-week community based detoxification regime off opiates such as heroin and methadone using Subutex or Lofexedine as well as making use of Naltrexone ... for those suited to an inpatient detox unit, a three-week community based detoxification regime off opiates such as heroin and methadone using Subutex or Lofexedine as well as making use of Naltrexone ...

(15 pages) 179 0 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Opposition to the use of Marijuana

in mail-order catalogs such as Montgomery Ward and Sears & Roebuck along with codeine and other opiates. During the same period, Coca-Cola introduced a soft drink laced with cocaine, once again de ...

(5 pages) 31 0 0.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

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ed to morphine and codeine, since all three are derived from the opium poppy plant. They are called opiates, and are found in the dried ?milk? of opium poppy seeds. Morphine and codeine are both very ... ine. However, it was discovered that heroin produced a quick dependency in people. Heroin and other opiates were made illegal in 1920 as part of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Still today, however, Heroin i ...

(5 pages) 8 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Heroin a long dark path

h powder. There is also a form that is black and sticky known on the streets as ?black tar heroin?. Opiates are drugs that are derived from a naturally occurring substance found in the poppy plant. Al ...

(7 pages) 12 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol