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Opioids
- Mechanism: Opioids drugs bind to specific opioid receptors (in CNS and gastrointestinal tract) and produce various effects.

- Morphine: Very effective sedative and painkiller in patients undergoing surgery.

- Heroin (or smack): It is a white, odourless and bitter crystalline compound. - Chemically it is diacetylmorphine obtained by acetylation of morphine.

- It is extracted from the latex of poppy plant -Papaver somniferum.
- Usually taken by snorting and injection.
- Action: Heroin is a depressant thus slows down the body functions.