Brooklyngirl84
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you cannot loop cocaine and heroin users together. Coke is an amphetamine, a stimulant. This means that it speeds up the central nervous system, increasing heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure while increasing energy levels, focus, attention, alertness, and wakefulness. They also suppress appetite. Cocaine and meth, especially, produce an intense high as they rapidly flood the brain with dopamine. The high is generally fairly short-lived, however, and cocaine is often abused in a binge pattern to try and extend the euphoria. The “crash” that comes after a stimulant high can be significant, leaving a person feeling extremely fatigued, hungry, irritable, mentally confused, and depressed, which is followed by intense cravings.
Opioids do not flood the brain with dopamine in the same manner. It's a much longer high with a gradual crash. Additionally, opioid drugs disrupt the natural production of norepinephrine and act as central nervous system depressants. Opioids block pain sensations, induce drowsiness, reduce body temperature, and slow heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration functions. Physical withdrawal symptoms may resemble the flu. They are too SICK to become rage-filled. Diarrhea, sweats, restless legs syndrome, etc.
Not all drugs are created equal. They affect neurotransmitter levels differently. They affect different areas of the brain and result in different detox symptoms.
All drug users are self-centered to a degree. However, self-centered does not equal capable of committing a homicide.
Opioids do not flood the brain with dopamine in the same manner. It's a much longer high with a gradual crash. Additionally, opioid drugs disrupt the natural production of norepinephrine and act as central nervous system depressants. Opioids block pain sensations, induce drowsiness, reduce body temperature, and slow heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration functions. Physical withdrawal symptoms may resemble the flu. They are too SICK to become rage-filled. Diarrhea, sweats, restless legs syndrome, etc.
Not all drugs are created equal. They affect neurotransmitter levels differently. They affect different areas of the brain and result in different detox symptoms.
All drug users are self-centered to a degree. However, self-centered does not equal capable of committing a homicide.
I completely agree with you. Opioid addicts are not "calm, mellow people". They are self centered, and the drug use creates a callousness towards others.
The perpetrators took out a lot of rage on AJ.