The Narcotic: Papaver Somniferum

It is an annual, of up to 1 meter of height, little graft plant, with the oblong leaves, sinuosodentadas in the edges, with the petals of several colors, targets, pink, red and violets, with a dark spot in the base. The fruit is a capsule of good size. It is spread by the south of Europe, North Africa, central and South Asia and America.

It exists in the Iberian Peninsula, in addition to the narcotic, another plant with similar effects, the Chelidonium majus, well-known with the names of golondrinera grass or the wanderers, verruguera grass and celidueña. Latex removes rarely from the incisions of the immature fruits and of other parts of the plant. This latex coagulates in contact with the air.

The opium is a mixture of ranges, different resins, sugars and other substances, between which 20 have pharmacological activity, almost all alkaloids like: morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcobathtub, narceína and papaverina; most important of all of them it is the morphine, contained in the opium in variable proportion (3-22 %) and to which it confers his main qualities.

Morphine receives its name in honor to Morfeo, God of the dreams. All the parts of the plant stems, leaves and flowers contain morphine. The capsules (the fruits) contain the greater concentration. Morphine paralyzes the nervous centers, mainly those of the brain, diminishes the painful sensation, whatever it is his origin.

It is for that reason that is used in Medicine to calm the acute pains and to cushion the pains in the patients in final stage. In 1898 professor Heinrich Dreser, of the Bayer, presented the world his new creation, after adding to morphine two acetilados groups, the diacetilmorfina, or more commonly the heroin.

The heroin is one of drugs with greater tolerance, reason why it creates a fast addiction. Its power is highly destructive, creating in its addict true social, physical and psychic problems. At the moment an opiate derivative called metadona is being tried to eradicate the heroin consumption providing.

This substance is equal or worse than the heroin; and this plan the only thing that tries is "to sleep" a problem that none has solution. Codeine: This substance also comes from morphine and it is used for the syrup elaboration against the cough. The effects when consuming them and the consequences of these three drugs are similar.

One of its main effects is that they mitigate the pain, reason for which they are used like analgesic. Its consumption causes euphoria, unconcern, relaxation and well-being. Later the user becomes solitary introvert and. Parallelly they are possible to be presented/displayed you feel nauseous and vomit, sensation of heat and depression.

The repercussions of the abuse are many, like undernourishment, tremors and manifold infections in different vital organs, but coverall a great dependency. The depression created by the deficiency, along with the intense degree of tolerance that creates these drugs, finishes in a painful necessity of the substances, and the heroin injection is the average one to avoid the suffering: the abstinence syndrome, with which the drug for the addict one lets constitute a source to please, to get to become a vital necessity tragically.

The effects of the opiate ones are:

• Addiction and a strong physical dependency
• Introversion, solitude, depression
• Hard heat sensation, tremors
• Nauseas vomit
• Undernourishment
• Infections in diverse organs of the body
• Death

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