Opiates Flashcards
Poppy plants
Alkaloids of poppy plant
3-4 feet Anjali plant with 4-5 flowers in red pink white or purple
Not the garden variety red oriental or yellow Californian
Opium
Unrefined gummy town residue from the pope capsule
Smoking like chasing the dragon
Seturner German chemist named is morphiumbafterngreek God of dreams Morpheus
Soldiers disease
1908 opium act
1911 opium act
Illegal to import manufacture and sell for non medical purposes
Pocdssijn was not illegal
Tabasco bill no pass
1911 add possession s crime and expanded police power of search and seizure and made cocaine illegal
Emily Murphy
Alberta BALCK candle book
1929 narcotic and drug act
Maintenance doses no longer allowed
Detailed records m6 month jails and 209 dollar fine
Up to 7 years jail and 1000 dollar fine
Open ended search warrant for life often if of in 1985
Opium
25 active alkaloids
Makeup 25 percent of its wait
Most important include
Morphine 10, condine .5 and thebane .2
Codeine is Greek word for poppy head and it is same as morphine but sub methoxy from hydroxyl
Heroin
Alder wright 1874 adding to acetyl groups to morphine molecule
More lipid Soluble and less ionized gain access to CNS more rapidly
OxyCondon
Combined with aspirin and called percodan when combined with acetoniminophin is called Percocet or time released oxycontin
Chronic pain
Jill illy heroin
Street price 10 x prescribed peice
Oxymorphone
Opana
High abuse potential
Hydrocodone
Combined with acetaminophen Vicodin and high levels of abuse
Methadone
Long lasting
Tolerance and physical dependence e
Germany ww2 sub for morphine
Used in opiate treatment plans
Buprenorphine
Subutex without naloxene
With naloxene suboxene
Last longer with less OD potential
Fentanyl
Sublimaze synthetic more potent than heroine high lipid soluble
Short acting
Od common.
Price of heroin
1 gram doe 180-1200 dollars
Basic unit is clear bag white powder 100 milligrams
Leading cause of death
Before car crashed
Use can u 5 and lifetime 14
Us 7 and we
Ontario high school 15 past year
