Ilicit Drugs Flashcards
Opium in lower doses
Dream like effect
How has opium been referred as in the old days
NATCOTICS
Opium in higher doses
Induce a state of sleep
Opioids divide in 4 categories
- -Natural compounds extracted directly from the plant.
- -Comprises derivate compounds making changes in the chemical composition of morphine.
- -comprises derivate compounds making changes chemical composition of CODEINE or THEBAINE
- comprises drugs that are not chemically related to any of the natural extracts of opium and are synthesize completely in the lab.
Direct from opium
Morphine, codeine THEBAINE
Derivates from morphine
Heroin, hydromorphone, oxymorphone,
Derivates of codeine or THEBAINE
Oxycodone (OxyContin)
Hydrocodone(vicodin)
All synthetic
Methadone, meperidine(demerol)
Opioids
Drugs with analgesic properties that act in the brain like opium. pain reducer,
Narcotics
A general term technically sharing to opiate related or opiate derived drugs it is often mistakenly used to include several other illicit drugs categories as well
Opium
An analgesic and euphoriant drug acquired from the dried juice of the opium poppy
Natural name of opium
Papaver somniferium
Petal capsule
Under capsule white milk will become poppy
Optimum as medicinal drug
Venom bites, chronic headache, vertigo, deafness,
1520 paracelus
Opium, wine and assortment spices ( laudanum