• How Dangerous Really Are Drugs?
    Awake!—1980 | July 22

    • OPIUM, HEROIN AND CODEINE (the latter used in many cough medicines found in drugstores): Short-term effects of opiates like these include a state of “contentment,” detachment, nausea and vomiting. An acute overdose adversely affects the respiratory function, with danger of death.

  • How Dangerous Really Are Drugs?
    Awake!—1980 | July 22

    • NARCOTICS (Opiate analgesics)

      EXAMPLES Codeine

      Demerol

      Heroin

      Methadone

      Morphine

      MEDICAL CLASSIFICATIONS Central nervous system depressant.

      AND USES Used to relieve pain.

      SHORT-TERM EFFECTS Relief from pain; produces a state of

      contentment; sometimes nausea and

      vomiting.

      LONG-TERM EFFECTS Rapid development of tolerance and

      physical and psychological dependence.

      MAJOR DANGERS Very strong physical and psychological

      dependence.

      Addictive.

      General physical deterioration.

      Death from overdose due to respiratory

      depression.