Morphine addiction and treatment

OPIOIDS  has great propensity to cause addiction and its effect on health is always detrimental.
The opoids addiction is one of the most common behavioral process and by this process person use it again and again, with out caring  about his health.
This long lasting use is leading way to produce craving for narcotics particularly morphine and its derivatives.
The drug use starts when person start facing difficulties in his life and wanted to be remain soothe and calm so, to soothe his emotions and difficulties he starts taking drugs particularly MORPHINE.

Teenagers are particularly susceptible to this and scum b to drug craving very easily,they think that they can escape problems by taking drugs and one of the effect of narcotics is blurring of  reality,due to use of morphine or opioids they feel  false perception of happiness  or pleasure.

Another reson for craving a drug is that once person takes drug  a little bit of it remains in the body. sometime people become physically dependent to opioids because they become physically dependent on painkillers prescribed to them for relieving pain.

Morphine is highly addictive drug.
It has low tolerence level mean that exceedingly  high level of drug is needed to produce the desired response after single dose,so physiological and physical dependence produce very rapidly.

Withdrawal symptoms of morphine:
The withdrawal symptoms of morphine use are sweating, nausea, chills, yawing,pinpoint pupil that lasts for almost three days.
Adverse effects:
Morphine can also cross the placental barriers of  pregnant women and thus  can produce withdrawal symptoms in the babies of  mothers who use morphine.
It can also damage their normal development procedure and poses a great risk to their health.

Morphine acts centrally that it effect is on brain apart from its pain relieving properties the MORPHINE also effects physical and mental performance, alleviates  anxiety and fear and induces euphoria.
Morphine also inhibit hungers, it hampers the cough reflex ,causes constipation and can impair sex drive. It effects the menstrual cycle of women using MORPHINE.
MORPHINE can hamper the normal respiratory function of the body, the nausea induces by the morphine can cause vomiting because it stimulate the chemo receptor  trigger zone in the brain stem, it also causes the itching of  nose and skin reaction due to its histamine releasing effect.
people who are addicted to morphine experience acute sense of hopelessness in their life, they usually face problems in their jobs and relationships,the only desire in their life is to acquire the drug by any means.
the effects of addiction spread rapidly in the society and it effects not only the  life of drug addict also also the peoples linked to their life .


Treatment:
However it is important not to stigmatized the drug user as mentally or physically ill.
addiction must be considered as problem that must be curbed with effective program of awareness  about drug use.
Both  psychological and behavioral treatment is needed under the supervision of experienced person.
patient may remain in drug addict center for effective therapy, it has been proved that strong religious views can be helpful in treating drug carving.

Drugs used in treatment:Mostly BUPRINORPHINE  and NALTROXONE  is used in treatment of opioid detoxification.