A disorder that is characterized by the use of opiates including heroin, opium, nonprescription methadone and morphine that are valued for the physical and psychological symptoms they produce including insensitivity to physical or emotional pain, euphoria, drowsiness and sleep. Negative side effects include the risk of an overdose which may result in death through respiratory depression; severe withdrawal symptoms if the drug is withheld; and associated health problems including the risk of hepatitis, blood poisoning, abscesses of the liver, brain and lungs and AIDS.
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