Spice goes on sale from illegal laboratories in China, where new, even more dangerous formulas of synthetic cannabinoid, which forms the basis of these smoking mixtures, are constantly being developed. In 2015, all synthetic cannabinoids in the Russian Federation were included in the register of banned substances. All spices are recognized as drugs.
Consequences of using spices
The name "spice" combines smoking mixtures consisting of plant material and synthetic cannabinoid, similar in properties to marijuana, hashish, but exceeding them in the ability to cause addiction.
The effect of synthetic cannabinoid is less prolonged than marijuana, but more intense. The composition of the plant base is not decisive. The use of plant raw materials for the application of narcotic substances only complements the picture of poisoning with uncharacteristic for drug dependence symptoms.
Psychological dependence
Psychic dependence on spice is characterized by:
- an irresistible desire to smoke, make at least one puff;
- loss of ability to control cravings for drugs;
- brittle in the absence of a regular dose;
- the emergence of tolerance, the desire to increase the dose, smoke more often;
- loss of ability to be aware of the disease.
Psychoactive effects continue for a long time. Spice smokers are hallucinated, delusional, depressed beyond the episodes of drug use.
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Psycho-organic syndrome
After the use of smoking spices, the patient develops a psychoorganic syndrome that occurs when mass neuronal deaths, personality changes, severe depression begins, memory deteriorates, and intellect decreases.
With the increase in the dose for smoking, the likelihood of an expanded psychosis of the type of schizophrenia with hallucinations visual and auditory, delirium increases. There are often cases when drug addicts hide the fact of using spices and they are hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital because of the similarity of symptoms with schizophrenia.
In drug addicts with smoking experience of such mixtures, speech and thinking slow down for more than half a year, they can not service themselves, they become untidy.
Effect on the body
The danger is not only a systematic, but even a rare use of a smoking mixture. Ending death can not only overdose spice with frequent use, but also a single and even first use of the drug.
Synthetic drugs have a detrimental effect on the body: they destroy immunity, disrupt hormonal balance, negatively affect the organs of the blood, heart, respiratory system.
Hormonal disorders
Spice smokers suffer from sexual function. In girls, the cycle of menstruation is disturbed, the vitality of the eggs worsens, and infertility occurs. The hormonal background changes, the risk of diabetes increases.
The changes may be irreversible. In advanced cases, the reproductive function is completely impaired.
Local changes
Smoking of mixtures leads to a burn of mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract. Hot smoke burns the mucous cavity of the nose, larynx, bronchi, dries, causing irritation. The patient feels dry in the mouth, often forced to drink.
The mucous eye is also irritated with smoke, the eyeball protein is cloudy. These symptoms give out a spice smoker to hide them, he usually uses eye drops.
Violation of CNS functions
Spice, destroying the neurons of the brain, destroys the ability to think, deprives the person of the ability to realize the degree of destruction of the person, the ability to establish contact with other people.
Drug addict after a long use of spice loses its intellect, it loses even the very possibility of understanding the problem that has arisen. Psychological rehabilitation of a spice-dependent with an experience of 6 months is more complicated and labor-intensive than a heroin addict.
As the brain breaks down in character, there are signs of schizophrenia with attacks of paranoia.
Toxic encephalopathy
Synthetic cannabinoid causes a spasm of the blood vessels of the brain, depriving it of oxygen access cells, which causes the death of neurons and the development of toxic encephalopathy or temporary dementia.
The emotional sphere suffers, the ability to evaluate the correctness of one's actions critically is lost. The patient is disturbed by the coordination of movements, there is a feeling of lightness, the desire to fly.
Intoxication psychosis
To achieve the effect, there is quite a negligible amount of the drug, and even a slight excess of the dose causes an overdose with a severe psychosis similar to schizophrenia, acute renal failure, sudden death due to cardiac arrest.
Psychosis - another answer to the question, what are the consequences after the spice. Caused by an overdose, it can develop in a drug addict with an experience that has exceeded the dosage several times, and for a beginner who first tried this drug. Without treatment, psychosis can last from one day to 2 weeks, accompanied by hallucinations, delusions of persecution, bewitching, greatness.
In the absence of treatment, intoxication psychosis can last up to 30 days. Continued use of spice leads to relapses of intoxication psychosis and, possibly, initiates the development of paranoid schizophrenia.
Dysfunction of the circulatory system
The defeat of the circulatory system after smoking spice is caused by:
- the effect of the drug on the peripheral nervous system, regulating the work of the heart and blood vessels;
- organic lesions of the heart, venous, arterial vessels.
Violation of the regulation of the circulatory system leads to an increase in heart rate, spasmodic changes in the rhythm of heartbeat, angina pectoris, shock. Toxic myocardial damage can cause a stroke, death.
Intoxication
Poisoning of all systems of human organs is characterized by deterioration of complexion, hair loss, both in young men and in girls. Very quickly, instead of a thick shock of hair on his head are rare hair through which the skin of the scalp radiates.
Symptoms of poisoning are manifested by increased respiration, excitation, hallucinations. The patient's temperature rises sharply, renal and hepatic insufficiency develops.
Conclusions
The destructive ability of spice is more pronounced than that of marijuana, hashish, amphetamines. For a few months a person has a disintegration of personality, health.
By its own will, a person buys from drug dealers:
- a thinking disorder, a decrease in intelligence;
- worsening short-term memory;
- loss of reading skills;
- psychoses similar to schizophrenia;
- paranoid states with persecution mania;
- severe depression;
- suicidal thoughts and actions;
- infertility;
- destruction of immunity;
- disrupting the hematopoiesis system;
- insomnia, poorly treatable;
- heart attack, stroke, early death from an overdose.
Without treatment, spice addiction inevitably turns a person into a "vegetable".The process of transformation is so rapid, and the destruction of the psyche and health are so serious that every day of delay can be the last opportunity to get a chance to get rid of addiction and recovery.
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