Question 1

how would you know if your overdosing on heroin?

Accepted Answer

Death: 'overdosing' on any substance (including alcohol) can kill a person. This especially includes heroin. Use of heroin is associated with a variety of severe emotional and general medical difficulties.

Question 2

how much heroin do you need to snort to cause an overdose?

Accepted Answer

Snort heroin: The answer depends on the purity and strenght of heroin. Also this heroin is often intentionally tainted with chemicals to enhance absorption and euphoria. Cocaine is often mixed making this forn of  addiction lethal. A first time user has a higher risk if death because brain does not develop tolerance in a rapid fashion causing respiratory depression and no oxygen to brain.

Question 3

what if a person overdoses on heroin while taking naltrexone?

Accepted Answer

The person could die: 'overdosing' on any substance (or alcohol) can potentially kill a person. This includes heroin. Naltrexone, prescribed for opiate and alcohol dependence, blocks the effects of opiates (like heroin); though it will not offset overdose lethality. Use of heroin is associated with a variety of severe emotional and general medical difficulties.

Question 4

what causes death in a heroin overdose?

Accepted Answer

Two ways: Suppression of the drive to breathe is the more familiar. For reasons we do not understand, pulmonary edema may come on very rapidly and kill the person with a sudden eruption of foam from the mouth and suffocation. Neither is painful, but i hope that neither is something that you want. Good luck, and if you have lost someone, you have my sympathy.

Question 5

is dying from a heroin overdose painful?

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No.: One loses consciousness before death by overdose and heroin relieves pain and brings about euphoria, hence why it's abused despite a real and frequent risk of death.

Question 6

what amount is a heroin overdose considered?

Accepted Answer

Varies by tolerance: That amount which can suppress consciousness and breathing.

Question 7

how many teenagers die from a heroin overdose?

Accepted Answer

In US?: Variable by location.I am unable to find anaccurate breakdown available that covers all US deaths from this specific drug.  See: http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20141002/heroin-overdose-deaths-doubled-in-much-of-us-cdc-study

Question 8

what actually causes death with a heroin overdose?

Accepted Answer

Two ways at least: I wish i had not seen this so often as a pathologist. Breathing may simply stop as a result of the drug. Or for some reason that we've not been able to figure out, the air spaces of the lungs suddenly fill with fluid. Foam gushes from the mouth and the user dies. I give families the comfort that witnesses to this event say it seems that the person does not suffer -- but who knows for sure?

Question 9

what  happens when a person is having a heroin overdose?

Accepted Answer

Heroin Overdose: Airways and lungs
no breathing!shallow breathing, 
slow and difficult breathing, 
eyes, ears, nose, and throatdry mouth, 
extremely small pupils, sometimes as small as the head of a pin ("pinpoint pupils"), 
tongue discoloration, heart and blood, low blood pressure, weak pulse, skin, bluish-colored nails and lips, stomach and intestines, constipation, spasms of the stomach and intestinal tract, nervous, coma.

Question 10

what happens to kill you in a heroin overdose?

Accepted Answer

Due to Respritory De: Due to respritory depressin and arrest is the cause with heroin overdose
but some deaths may be due to overdose or allergy to quinine which may sometimes used as a cutting agent.

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