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 Anhydrous ammonia lands two Screven,Georgia residents in jail on meth charges.
Anhydrous ammonia lands two Screven,Georgia residents in jail on meth charges.
SPRINGFIELD,Georgia ...
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Laney Scheduled For December Trial On Meth Charges.
Laney Scheduled For December Trial On Meth Charges.
Patricia Laney, who was taken into federal custody ...
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Morrison County,Montana's anti-meth efforts slow meth usage numbers.
Morrison County,Montana's anti-meth efforts slow meth usage numbers.
Three methamphetamine related ...
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Meth lab found in local hotel room.
Meth lab found in local hotel room.
Keen observations by two Thatcher,Arizona Police officers Saturday led ...
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Couple pleads guilty to meth lab charges.
Couple pleads guilty to meth lab charges.
SANDUSKY,Ohio
A couple who operated a methamphetamine lab on Maple ...
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Africia becoming Drug Hub.
DEA Chief Warns Africa Becoming Drug Hub
DEA administrator Karen Tandy, left, listens with ...
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"Speed in a can"
’Cocaine’ drink pulled from shelves nationwide
NEW HAVEN, Conneticut. - A Las Vegas company has agreed ...
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Football players arrested on drug charges.
Stout football players arrested on drug charges.
Three UW-Stout football players have been arrested and ...
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'I'll cut your throat andburn house'
A WOMAN threatened to burn down her love rival's house and slash her throat, a ...
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Anti-Drug Groups Turn Eye to Prescription Abuse
Leading anti-drug groups, which for years have been focusing their efforts on illegal drugs like ...
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The other side: Abusing prescriptions
CLEVELAND -- While most people live in a world where the local pharmacists prescribe the ...
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Boy poisoned due to Codeine
A Great Falls woman was arrested Thursday in the near-fatal poisoning of her 3-year-old son, ...
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Codeine can be converted to morphine.
When injected, 120mg of codeine phosphate produces an analgesic response equivalent to that from 10mg of morphine.
Codeine products are diverted from legitimate sources and are encountered on the illicit market.
The human body converts codeine into morphine during digestion.
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Codeine Facts
- Depresses breathing and other brain centers. Relieves pain and anxiety.
- Depresses all body systems.
- Dependence develops with tolerance and cross-tolerance of other drug effects
- Unborn children of dependent mother absorb the drugs and experience a life-threatening
withdrawal process after birth.
- To experience the effects of codeine, human body must convert the drug to
morphine.
- In most humans, about 10% of codeine is transformed to morphine.
- Effects of codeine start at 10-30 minutes after ingestion, peak within 1
to 2 hours and may last 4-6 hours, depending on dose administered.
- Codeine comes from the opium poppy and is related to morphine and heroin.
It is found in tablets such as codeis and panadeine; in cough mixtures such
as codral; and in cold and 'flu preparations such as codral cold and 'flu
tablets.
- Within two to three weeks of consecutive use a physical and psychological
addiction may develop.
- Misuse will lead to an apathetic, dulling-type effect, a lack of co-ordination
and dulled responses.
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