What does opium do?

Question

the drug. does it relax you, stimulate you, etc.? please be specific

Answer 1

its basicly a dirty version of herion

Answer 2

It puts you in a sleepy mode with good feelings...not a worry when you smoke it...

Answer 3

Opium is an extract of the exudate derived from seedpods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum.

Opium resin contains two groups of alkaloids: phenanthrenes (including morphine and codeine) and benzylisoquinolines (including papaverine).

Morphine is the most prevalent and binds to and activates μ-opioid receptors in the brain, spinal cord, stomach and intestine.

Physical tolerance and dependence can appear in a few days of regular use.

Various degrees of psychological addiction can occur, though this is relatively rare when opioids are properly used to treat pain, as opposed to for their euphoric effects.

In higher dose morphine can effect lung edema, respiratory difficulties, coma, or cardiac or respiratory collapse; dosis letalis:120 to 250 milligrams.

The use of Opium has a very long history and can be indicated as the worlds first antidepressant.

Galen lists its medical indications, noting how opium...

"...resists poison and venomous bites, cures chronic headache, vertigo, deafness, epilepsy, apoplexy, dimness of sight, loss of voice, asthma, coughs of all kinds, spitting of blood, tightness of breath, colic, the lilac poison, jaundice, hardness of the spleen stone, urinary complaints, fever, dropsies, leprosies, the trouble to which women are subject, melancholy and all pestilences."

Here you find more about development and used properties in history till now:

http://opioids.com/red.html

Answer 4

It is a narcotic.  It makes you tired, it makes you feel euphoria...and it makes you pathetic.