Heroin and Hypodermic Needle

Did you know that….. the invention of the hypodermic needle played an important role in the story of addiction to drugs ?. In 1853 an Scottish physician,

Narcotics Drugs (English)

Narcotic drugs are classified into two groups. 1 .- Opium and its derivatives, Morphine, Narcotine, Papaverine, and Codeine. 2 .- Their synthetic equivalents, s

Morphine

  Did you know that….. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1841), a german pharmacist, isolated an active constitue

Opioids intoxication (English)

Did you know that….. Opioids (Heroin, Morphine, etc.) intoxication is characterized by euphoria, itching of the skin, decreased respiratory rate, bradycar