Cleansing Your Bowel » Addiction http://www.cleansingbowel.net Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:38:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 What Are the Adverse Effects of Opioids? http://www.cleansingbowel.net/addiction/what-are-the-adverse-effects-of-opioids/ http://www.cleansingbowel.net/addiction/what-are-the-adverse-effects-of-opioids/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:04:06 +0000 Laura http://www.cleansingbowel.net/addiction/what-are-the-adverse-effects-of-opioids/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Chemical substance that has morphine-like action in the body is an opioid. Its main use is for pain relief. The way that they work is to bind opioid receptors that are found in th central nervous system and in the gastrointestinal tract. The receptors for these organs will mediate the beneficial and the undesirable side effects. There are four classes narcotics:

Endogenous peptides-these are produced naturally in the body
Opiates-processed morphine
Semi-synthetic opioids-produced by hydromorphine and oxycodone
Fully-synthetic opioids-fentanyl & methadone

There are common adverse reactions by patients that take opioids for their pain relief they are nausea, drowsiness, vomiting, consitipation, and having a dry mouth. Adverse reactions in patients that take opioids that infrequently happen and are usually dose-related are respiratory depression, confusion, hallucinations, delirium, hypothermia, bradycardia (low heartrate), tachycardia (fast heartrate), dizziness, headache, urinary retention, and muscle rigidity. Some experience hyperalgesia, which is when a patient using opioids for pain relief may have more pain as a result of their medication.

Bith uses therapeutic and chronic of opioids may compromise the function of an immune system. Other concerns about opioids are tolerance, dependence, addiction, and abuse. The issuses can cause doctors and patients concerns and they are the most common reason for which inadequate use of analgesia for patients with chronic pain. Putting these issues into the context of analgesia is important.

Tolerance is the tendency of the body to adapt to the presence of opioids and is a common reaction to any chemical, including caffeine. The tendency of the body to make unpleasent withdrawal syndrome is dependence of opioids in which case opioids are stopped after a tolerance has been developed. Addiction is a psychological craving for certain effects of opioids, such as euphoria, that many people experience when the drugs are taken in large doses. In the context of addiction abuse is the misuse of opioids.

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