How does heroin kill?

[Atrail]

When someone dies from heroin what actually happens to the body that causes death?
Is it a bad dose or what?
Anyone have a web link to some reading material?
Thanks

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

It depresses breathing, and you suffocate.

 

[Atrail]

Ok
thanks

 

[conjur]

From a previously posted thread up here:

Heroin victim - VERY GRAPHIC

 

[nihil]

i've heard people describe it as this: your body is going into riggormortis while you are still alive. and you fight against the fact that you're slowly and painfully dieing but it's no use. so you pretty much sit there until you can no longer move and you die a slow horrible death.

 

[DigDug]

Respiratory Arrest. An overdose of heroin shuts down breathing, and depending on how severe the overdose, it can also shut down central nervous system.

There was long while ago, a case of Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms after heroin use. It turns out that improper Demerol synthesis (a fully synthetic opiate as opposed to heroin, a quasi-synthetic one), results in a byproduct called MPTP. I'm not sure of the specifc action of MPTP in the brain, but it really, really fvcks it up. Whatever lab tried to cook up Demerol, wasn't too careful.

On a side note, the common myth that Ecstasy causes Parkinson's Disease seems to have resulted from the media's confusion between MDMA (ecstacy) and MPTP.

 

[nihil]

<< From a previously posted thread up here:

Heroin victim - VERY GRAPHIC >>



that's not too disgusting but christ. if that doesn't teach you not to screw with heroin i don't know what will. damn.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Medically heroin is a relatively benign drug - strictly speaking alcoholism is far more destructive to the body than is heroin addiction. That said, heroin effectively impairs addicts from doing much of anything, and is far more dangerous due to the wildly different purities of street heroin - often when a rash of addicts die in a particular city it is because a particularly pure strain of heroin is on the market, and they inadvertantly overdose.

 

[Valhalla1]

that girl had a heroin overdose?? she sure doesnt look like she was strung out on heroin, usually heroin feinds are emaciated looking, but maybe she was bloated because she had been dead a few days. and why is her skin discolored like that, i wouldnt think heroin would do that?

 

[Nefrodite]

sharing needs gets you aids? i dunno.


<--- just watched gia. angelina jolie did good

 

[Eli]

Your skin always discolors like that if you've been dead for any length of time..

 

[Rudee]

<< Your skin always discolors like that if you've been dead for any length of time.. >>



That's not true at all.

 

[911paramedic]

too much heroin in your blood = you just stop breathing (narcotics have that effect)

We give narcan to our heroin OD patients. If they have not been out long enough for brain damage, they usually come to within a minute or so. (if they are not on other depressant drugs as well that is) Good idea not to be in front of them because sometimes there is projectile vomiting...

 

[Mister T]

<< too much heroin in your blood = you just stop breathing (narcotics have that effect)

We give narcan to our heroin OD patients. If they have not been out long enough for brain damage, they usually come to within a minute or so. (if they are not on other depressant drugs as well that is) Good idea not to be in front of them because sometimes there is projectile vomiting... >>



Do you stick a needle directly into their heart like in pulp fiction? :Q

 

[Atrail]

Most of them don't snort heroin I imagine.

 

[911paramedic]

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<< too much heroin in your blood = you just stop breathing (narcotics have that effect)

We give narcan to our heroin OD patients. If they have not been out long enough for brain damage, they usually come to within a minute or so. (if they are not on other depressant drugs as well that is) Good idea not to be in front of them because sometimes there is projectile vomiting... >>



Do you stick a needle directly into their heart like in pulp fiction? :Q >>



Hehe, no. We got to give it as a intramuscular injection in San Francisco, here in Las Vegas our protocols make us start an IV (not much fun with patients with no veins left because they shoot up so much) and then we give it through the IV line. We have to use the bag and breath for them until the drug starts to work.

We call them smurfs because they are so blue. :Q

 

[Danman]

<< From a previously posted thread up here:

Heroin victim - VERY GRAPHIC >>



Yo, that is really whack. :Q