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Diseases » Heroin dependence » Glossary

Glossary for Heroin dependence

Addiction: Any of various addictions to substances or activities.
Anxiety: Excessive worry, anxiety, or fear.
Chemical addiction: Addiction to and abuse of various substances.
Cheyne-Stokes respirations: Breathing with regularly occurring apnoeic episodes and change in rate of breathing.
Constipation: Difficult or dry bowel movements
Cramps: The painful spasmodic muscular contraction
Death: The cessation of life
Depression: Various syndromes with excessive anxiety, phobias, or fear.
Depressive symptoms: Inappropriate depressed mood.
Diarrhea: Loose or watery stool.
Drug abuse: Addiction to any of various illicit drugs.
Fever: Elevation of the body temperature above the normal 37 degrees celsius
HIV/AIDS: HIV is a sexually transmitted virus and AIDS is the progressive immune failure that HIV causes.
Hepatitis: Any type of liver inflammation or infection.
Heroin overdose: Heroin is an illegal and highly addictive recreational drug. Excessive doses of the drug can result in various symptoms and even death in severe cases.
Kwashiorkor: A malnutrition state that is produced by severe protein deficiency
Myoclonus: Sudden involuntary muscle twitching or movement.
Nausea: The queasy feeling of nausea and often also vomiting.
Pupillary constriction: miosis is constriction of the pupil of the eye
Respiratory failure: Failure of the respiratory system
Rhabdomyolysis: Skeletal muscle injury or death, which releases muscle fibres into the blood.
Septicemia: A systemic inflammatory response to an infection.
Social problems: Difficulty relating to other people
Society problems: Difficulty interacting in society.
Sudden death: The sudden death of an individual
Tremors: Involuntary trembling most commonly of the hands.
Urine retention: Partial or total inability to excrete urine
Vomiting: Vomiting or retching symptoms.
Withdrawal symptoms: The occurrence of a group a symptoms that occur due to a withdrawal reaction that occurs when discontinuing use of a substance