A Quick Overview Of Barbiturates

 

A barbiturate is a drug that is able to act as a depressant on your CNS or central nervous system. It has been used for many decades, and has a wide spectrum of possible uses. It can provide mild sedation, or some of them may actually lead to total anesthesia. When compared against anxiolytics, hypnotics, and anticonvulsants, barbiturates have similar properties and effects. There are also analgesic qualities to this type of drug, yet not as strong as drugs based upon opiates or other painkilling medications. The main problem with using this particular type of drug as a sedative is that it has very addicting qualities.

Instead of prescribing barbiturates, doctors today usually prescribe benzodiazepines instead. These drugs have an effect on GABA receptors, and therefore can also have similar effects to barbiturates including being a muscle relaxant, plus having the ability to reduce anxiety and sleep problems with some people that take them. There are many different barbiturates to choose from including Amytal, Nembutal, Seconal, and Phenobarbital, but due to their addictive nature, these drugs tend to lead to substance abuse, which is why GABA based pharmaceutical remedies are now prescribed instead.

Barbiturates are also capable of passing into a pregnant mother's fetus. When this occurs, the baby may actually be born with withdrawal symptoms, and have trouble breathing after leaving the womb. Nursing mothers would also pass barbiturates into their baby through breast-feeding if they were still in their system. These complications also led doctors and researchers to find something that could act on the central nervous system without causing this type of damage. Stevens- Johnson syndrome has also been associated with taking barbiturates, one of many detrimental conditions that may occur from taking this addictive drug. Hopefully this information will help you realize why you should stay away from barbiturates due to their addicting nature and the health problems they can cause.

The Dangers of Addiction to Pain Meds

 

Prescription pain medications are most often narcotics like Oxycodone HCL and Hydrocodone which come in a variety of medications such as Vicodin, Lortab and even generic versions. Many addictions start out innocently enough as an injury that a doctor prescribes a narcotic pain killer for.

But the longer a patient is treated with these pain medications, the greater the chance that a tolerance and dependance can develop. Before long, the user may need a daily dose of these medications just to feel "normal", even if they no longer derive a "high" from them.

As the tolerance and the dependency grows, their body will require greater doses that even a legal prescription cannot meet. So the user has to turn to alternate methods of obtaining those drugs, and that leads to illegal means and the costs are incredibly expensive.

Users often find that breaking free of these drugs is not so easily done. Quitting cold turkey is simply hard to do, especially when the body is used to having them. Withdrawal symptoms can be severe and quite miserable. The user will experience nausea, sweating, flu-like symptoms, and many other unpleasant symptoms which may linger for days after the last dose.

So the user will resort to desperate measures such as stealing others medications, buying them on the street, seeing several doctors or even forging a prescription. All of these are illegal and can come with serious consequences when they catch up with the user.

Another danger of narcotic meds that many addicts do not consider is that most of these narcotics are blended with acetaminophen which can be very damaging to your liver in high doses.

So do not be deceived into thinking that pain killer addiction isn't serious just because the drugs are legally prescribed medications. Trying to rationalize your use of narcotics that way is the first sign that you may indeed have a problem and should deal with it right away.

What You Should Know About About Cocaine, Blow, Substance Abuse

 

Most people already know about cocaine and crack, but did you know that crack is also known as poor man's cocaine? It's called poor man's cocaine because it's made from low-grade cocaine and this is cheaper. Unlike its high-end cousin which is snorted by users, crack is melted on a tin foil and then smoked with a pipe.

If you have any sense within you, you already know that drugs are always bad for you health, but it's even worse in the case of cocaine. Even first time users are at risk of death because of its side effects which include increased high blood pressure and heart rate. However, many people still take it anyway. Why? For a number of reasons. Peer pressure, extreme curiosity and lingering emotional pain are factors that can drive people to addiction.

You don't actually get addicted the first time you use crack or cocaine, however, because of their side effects or that “high” feeling or being in other realms, people seek them again and again to relive their experience until their body develops a real physical craving for the drug.

That said, drug addictions can actually be prevented when people see that there are other ways they can be happy, like meditation and keeping themselves busy.

Among our leaders, there are many who took used cocaine and other drugs. Probably the most famous admitted user is President Barack Obama who in his memoirs candidly admitted that he used drugs to cope with the pain of not seeing his father growing up. Other politicians who admitted to using drugs include Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and New York Governor David Paterson.

Other politicians who allegedly used cocaine and other drugs include George W. Bush and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

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