What is an opiates?

Answer 1

An opiate is any drug derived from the seeds of opium poppies, such as opium or heroine. However, there are lots of synthetic drugs with similar effects which are also considered opiates, such as oxy-cotton and percasettes. PS. please forgive my spelling. Opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin, depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety. ------------------------ The dried, condensed juice of a poppy, Papaver somniferum, that has a narcotic, soporific, analgesic, and astringent effect and contains morphine, codeine, papaverine, and other alkaloids used in medicine in their isolated or derived forms: a narcotic substance, poisonous in large doses.

*Opiates are a drug category, that are found in the opioids in the common Poppy flower. Opiate drugs have been banned since the early 1900's, when the Asian culture's traditional pipe-smoking was the America's scapegoat for being responsible for the "downfall of white women and promiscuity"

More common drugs that are opiates would be morphine, codeine, and heroin. Heroin is a synthetic version of morphine, with an additional molecule, leaving it more potent.

Morphine was banned after WW1/WW2 (cant remember) when many war veterans, soldiers, etc. became addicted to the drug because it was used as painkiller, and anaesthetic.

The opioid category is highly addictive, but relatively less severe withdrawal symptoms than lets say alcohol. The withdrawal symptoms include:

nausea, diarrhea, headaches, cramps, slight irritability.

An opiate is any drug that is made from opium or contains opium.