Urgent conditions in opium addiction

One of the private forms of drug addiction is opium (opioid) addiction - a disease that develops as a result of the use of opiates (opioids) and the formation of drug addiction. In recent years, a tendency has been observed to distinguish between the concepts used by pharmacologists and narcologists as “opium addiction” and “opioid addiction”. The term “opiates” usually includes narcotic substances of natural origin derived from plant materials (sleeping pills - Papaver somnifeum), including both individual alkaloids of this plant and primary processed plant products containing a mixture of alkaloids (specially crafted and prepared for consumption of raw opium - the so-called acetylated opium). Obtained artificially (semi-synthetic or synthetic) by substances similar in pharmacological action to opiates, the term “opioids” is used. Opium substances are divided by their origin: natural, semi-synthetic, synthetic, as well as by the type of their pharmacological action: full and partial agonists of opioid receptors, antagonists and drugs of mixed (agonist-antagonistic) action.