Chapter 13 Flashcards
What two chemicals are extracted from the opium poppy?
What was the significance of De Quincey’s writing about opium eating?
What were the approximate dates and who were the combatants in the Opium Wars?
How is it possible that heroin was at first sold as a nonaddicting pain reliever?
How did the stereotypical opioid abuse change from the early 1900s to the 1920s?
Why and when did private physicians and public clinics stop maintaining dependent individuals with morphine and other opioids?
What were some of the lessons learned about heroin addiction as a result of the Vietnam experience?
What is the effect of a narcotic antagonist on someone who has developed a physical dependence on opioids?
What are the enkephalins and endorphins, and how do they relate to plant-derived opioids such as morphine?
Explain why taking opioids in combination with sedatives is not advised.
