FACTS ABOUT HOOKAH

Yes, smoking hookah can get you addicted to nicotine. And although it feels like a clean smoke, hookah is not better for you than smoking cigarettes. We review the health risks of hookah and the signs of hookah addiction here.

What’s Dangerous About Hookah?

Smoke from waterpipes contains significant amounts of nicotine, tar and heavy metals. In fact, a 60 minute hookah session will expose you to 100-200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette. In addition, smoking tobacco through water does not filter out cancer causing chemicals (carcinogens) such as carbon monoxide. Filtered tobacco smoke that you pull through a hookah can damage the lungs and heart as much as cigarette smoke.

Hookah And Nicotine

Nicotine is one of the most addictive chemicals . And it is 100% present during a hookah session. Hookah smokers actually inhale more nicotine than do cigarette smokers because of the massive volume of smoke they inhale. Nicotine increases levels of dopamine in the reward circuits of the brain. This reaction is similar to a feeling of euphoria or getting high and is thought to underlie the pleasurable sensations experienced by many smokers. For many tobacco users, continued nicotine exposure results in chemical changes in the brain and can result in addiction.

Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms usually begin within a few hours after you last use tobacco, peak within the first few days of smoking cessation and usually subside within a few weeks. For some people, however, symptoms of withdrawal may persist for months. Symptoms of withdrawal from the nicotine contained in hookah include:

• anxiety
• attention deficits
• craving
• depression
• increased appetite
• irritability
• impaired cognitive skills
• sleep disturbances

Signs Of Hookah Addiction

Smoking tobacco produces a rapid distribution of nicotine in the brain, with drug levels peaking within 10 seconds of inhalation. However, the acute effects of nicotine dissipate quickly, as do the associated feelings of reward. This cycle of up-and-down causes a tobacco smoker to continue dosing to maintain the pleasurable effects and prevent withdrawal and cravings and is the basis for hookah addiction. But hookah addiction is characterized by a number of factors, including compulsive drug seeking and use, even in the face of negative health consequences. In other words, you may be addicted to hookah if you:

1. You spend significant time, energy or money on hookah sessions or hookah related activities
2. You experience nicotine withdrawal symptoms when you stop smoking
3. You continue to smoke from a hookah despite negative consequences to your health, work, social or family obligations
4. You think obsessively about hookah

SNAKE BITE

 A report has been recently released by the researchers from RACHI.  In which two men were reported having a snake bite to get high or euphoric (excited).

According to them certain snakes produces  a toxic effect on the nerve tissue and gives following experience ....

Euphoric effect (feel excited)

Laziness

Paralysis

Blurred vision

Explaination given by the scientists ................................. according to them pathway of Nerve that governs sanke bite and drug addiction can be same.

According to the researches the people who take snake bite have these characteristics....

1 . the thrill seekers.

2. those who take wide range of drugs

3. those who seeks high sensation experience.

4. social and religious people who worship snakes in mythology.

WHY PEOPLE TAKE SNAKE BITE TO GET HIGH?

So, to answer the question…addicts seek snake bites to get high because they can. The behavior may seem extreme but is really not too different than other susbstance use or seeking behavior Taking risks to get high is a benchmark of addiction.. So it comes as no surprise that true addicts will seek more and more extreme ways for a psychoactive experience.

                                ESCTACY HISTORY

Ecstacy is the common name given to the drug methylenedioxymethylamphetamine (MDMA). C11H15NO2. Only by an accident was it ever created by Mannish and Jacobsohn, two German Scientists working for Merk in 1912 as an intermediate to a vasoconstrictor known as hydrastinine (organic compound: an organic compound forming colourless crystals, soluble in water and resembling hydrastine in its medicinal properties).




à ESCTACY first used in history?

 It was believed to be used as a weight loss drug, but was not heavily marketed, and the paten does not give description of purpose. For the most part the drug laid inactive for 40 years. Its next rumoured application was in the US Military during drug tests. It was believed to be tried as a truth agent, though for obvious reasons this cannot be confirmed.
Other than the rumored US Military uses in the early 1950s, and minor use in the 1960s, ecstasy laid dormant (temporarily inactive) for sixty years before...........

àESCTACY step father ?
 Alexander Shulgin started to use it in his psychietry practice in the late 1970s. Shulgin designed a new pesticide and was given a lab by his company for practice . It only took one good use of mescaline(a type of drug) for him to become interested in psychedelic (wildly distorted) drugs. He then began to study and experiment with a wide variety of psychedelic drugs, usually those classified as phenethylamines. One time he gave some to a friend who was about to quit psychiatry. His friend changed his mind after one use. It became a recognized tool in psychotherapy, and was kept quiet to prevent abuse.

è Its use in medical field in history?

Ecstasy is classified as an empathagen, and psychiatrists began to use it with their patients to clear their defences and better relate to them. The most prominent desirable effect of ecstacy is how it breaks down the walls of communication by alleviating feelings of guilt, remorse, and fear. Its original name for street sale was empathy, but they changed it to ecstacy because it would sound more marketable.




à ESTACY abuse?

In 1984 though its use started to spread quickly. College students began to use it reguarly and it was even available at bars in Texas. In 1895 people sued to prevent ecstasy from being made illegal, which gave it extreme national exposure. Since it was not alcohol or nicotine and could not have a paten applied it was quickly made illegal for the sake of society.

è First step of Government against esctacy?

China white was intended to be a heroin substitute, but caused extreme brain damage. Due to its production, congress passed a law that allowed the DEA to immediately put a ban on any drug it saw as dangerous to public health. This law was first used in June of 1985 on none other than ecstasy. They compared MDMA to MDA, which was shown to cause brain damage in rats. Though psychiatrists had proven MDMA useful in their treatment, they did not have enough of a case to change the desires of the DEA.




à Gangs and esctacy?
In effect, they stopped treatment with the drug, lowered quality of product, and introduced profit motive into the equation as gangs began to deal the drug. That obviously increases crime.
In 1987 the rave culture began to pick up on the small Spanish island Ibiza. Within four years this drug use had gone full circle and found its way back home. Users from warehouses and outdoor raves in late 1980's England began to move to San Francisco in the early 1990's. In late 1991 and early 1992 the authorities in England had seized many large supplies of ecstasy. This combined with the increased demand caused insufficient supply. Dealers began to sell fake E, and people began to use LSD instead.

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