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pr0zac
Jan 18, 2004

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SpaceClown posted:

as well as long term usage causing nervous system damage
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232277/

ended up wasting 45 minutes reading about smoking heroin cause of this just being a 17 year old case study about a single individual and wondering more about the underlying issue

seems like it is probably not caused by heroin but a contaminant or maybe something created very rarely when heating it, researchers still aren't sure, but: "The primary hypothesis is that leukoencephalopathy is caused by a contaminant in the heroin or a combustion by-product"

also weirdly despite smoking heroin first starting in se asia the brain damage thing is apparently super super rare there with the first known case being in 2015 but even that having unusual differences compared to the normal manifestation

kind of an interesting unsolved mystery

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pr0zac
Jan 18, 2004

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echinopsis posted:

it binds to opioid receptors which contribute to its good feelings and drive for people to drink more. give people opioid blocking drugs and people stop drinking early in the evening and don't automatically professed to getting trashed.

thats interesting cause i get no pleasurable effects from opiates but i really really like alcohol to the point where i generally avoid it now

brains are weird man

pr0zac
Jan 18, 2004

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SpaceClown posted:

Dont drink

ok

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