Effects
Includes feelings of relaxation, drowsiness, or confusion, nausea, vomiting, constipation, slowed breathing.
Effects of short term opioid use
Taking the medicine in a way or dose other than prescribed, taking someone else's prescription medicine, or taking the medicine to get high.
Opioid Misuse/Abuse
These are the receptors in the brain, spinal cord, and other organs to which opioids bind.
Opioid receptors
Life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Naloxone (Narcan)
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Feet
Includes addiction, insomnia, heart problems, and pneumonia.
Effects of long term opioid use
When opioids are taken for a short time, as prescribed by a doctor for pain relief or other medical issues.
Safe Opioid Use
Opioid receptors regulate these functions in the body.
Respiratory and GI function, mood, pain, reward, and stress.
A type of behavioral therapy used in treating opioid use disorder that focuses on changing negative thought patterns and behaviors into healthier ones.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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Venus
Confusion, respiratory arrest, extreme sleepiness, pinpoint pupils, and intermittent loss of consciousness.
Appears as a white or brown powder or a black sticky substance, can be injected, snorted, or smoked.
Heroin
This happens when the brain's opioid receptors become less sensitive to the drug, requiring higher concentrations of the opioid to achieve the same level of effect.
A treatment method involving the use of medications like Suboxone and Methadone, along with behavioral therapy to treat substance use disorder.
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
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Anxiety, nausea, vomiting, or abdominal pain occurring after suddenly stopping use.
Withdrawal symptoms
Examples include illicit fentanyl and heroin.
A substance that "mimics" the effects of another, binding to the same receptors in the brain to help reduce cravings.
Agonist
These are opioid agonists that are used in Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).
Methadone and buprenorphine
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Photosynthesis
An effect of heroin use, where the brain does not receive enough oxygen - which can lead to permanent brain damage and death.
Hypoxia
Examples include: Hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine, codeine, and fentanyl.
Prescription pain relievers (legal opioids)
A substance that blocks a receptor, preventing another from binding to it.
Antagonist
This is an opioid antagonist used in Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).
Naltrexone
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Usher