Pharmacy drug addiction is a problem that has existed in our country for more than half a century. Cocaine, heroin, morphine are all quite expensive drugs. It's a completely different matter with cheap eye drops or tablets that are sold in pharmacies. For quite a long time, many drugs that have a narcotic effect were on free sale, not only in our country, but also abroad. This gave rise to a wave of pharmaceutical drug addiction, which is still being fought today.
Previously, you could buy heroin at the pharmacy, and it was also contained in children's cough syrups. In addition, a number of drugs were used in medicine, the effect of which was not fully understood, which led to the fact that the drugs flowed like a river into the street and became easy prey for drug addicts.
How do drugs get into the hands of addicts?
Why does the problem of pharmacy drug addiction still exist today? Despite the ban on the free sale of many drugs, medications regularly leak out and end up in the hands of drug addicts. How does this happen? The whole point is that people who have a prescription or access to them decide to make money and begin illegally selling drugs at exorbitant prices through the Internet and social networks. In addition, the criminal world of drug addicts regularly becomes involved in thefts from pharmacy warehouses. Sometimes pharmacists themselves are not afraid of the law and sell dangerous drugs that cause addiction under the counter.
Cyclomed – a medicine or a drug?
One of the dangerous drugs that drug addicts have turned into a deadly drug is Cyclomed. What kind of drug is this? Why do doctors prescribe it, and why do drug addicts use Cyclomed?
Application in medicine
Cyclomed is an eye drop that is used in ophthalmology for the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases and inflammations, during ophthalmoscopy, and also for preparation for operations. The medicine belongs to the group of m-anticholinergics. The product is produced in plastic bottles of 5 ml. The drug helps to dilate the pupil and examine the fundus of the eye to identify various pathologies.
Do you need a prescription?
Is cyclomed sold in pharmacies without a prescription? No, today in our country there is a ban on the sale of this drug without a doctor’s prescription. And this is an absolutely correct decision that cannot negatively affect people who treat their eyes with a doctor’s prescription and have a prescription to purchase the drug. The medicine has a rather narrow range of applications, especially since in modern medicine there are many more modern and effective analogues with fewer side effects.
However, even if it is necessary to use Cyclomed, the doctor will be able to write a prescription. Most pharmacists in pharmacies today know the list of drugs prohibited for free sale. Among them is Cyclomed. If a person tries to buy several bottles at once without a prescription, this immediately becomes a reason for suspicion of drug addiction. No decent seller will sell goods to a drug addict.
Contraindications for use
Naturally, like any other medical drug, Cyclomed has contraindications. According to the instructions for use, eye drops cannot be used in case of individual intolerance, with glaucoma, with caution during pregnancy and after 60 years. The therapeutic dose of the drug should not exceed 1-2 drops 1-3 times a day. Analogs include tropicamide, midracil, and cypromed.
conclusions
1. Isolation of the analyzed substance from physical evidence should be carried out using liquid-liquid extraction with a mixture of chloroform-2-propanol (9:1) at a pH of 10.0, and from biological fluids under the same conditions after preliminary precipitation of blood proteins and without preliminary acid hydrolysis for urine.
2. It has been established that the methods of TLC, GC/MS, HPLC, and UV spectroscopy make it possible to identify the component of the drug Cyclomed in physical evidence and biological fluids.
3. Conditions have been developed for the quantitative determination of cyclopentolate isolated from biological fluids using high-performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
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Cyclomed as a drug
It would seem that among the side effects in the instructions there are only minor ailments in the form of headache, nausea and drowsiness. Indeed, no one will write that a medicine can cause persistent drug dependence in a matter of weeks, and sometimes days. Many drug addicts know that eye drops can be used as a drug.
Eye drops for drug addicts are a cheap substitute for expensive opiates. Heavy drug addicts can no longer afford to buy heroin on the black market, so they resort to cheaper substitutes. Nasal eye drops for a high are quite inexpensive, the main thing is to know a supplier from whom you can buy the necessary drug by circumventing the law. Despite the bans and existing criminal liability for distributing cyclomed without a prescription, the law continues to be violated.
It is impossible to say unequivocally that cyclomed is a drug, since first of all, it is a medicine. However, if you do not use it according to the instructions and prescription of a doctor, the consequences for the body can be quite severe, even fatal.
Why does drop addiction occur?
Drug addiction is the scourge of our time. Many of us neglect the recommendation to visit a doctor and, having read advice on the Internet, practice self-medication. As a result, the drugs are selected incorrectly, the dosage is not maintained, and the drugs are used longer than the problem requires. All this leads to persistent dependence on certain drugs. Plus, such patients receive complete immunity of the body to the drug and irreversible changes in it.
So, in particular with rhinitis, an increase in blood vessels leads to swelling of the nasal mucosa and makes it impossible to breathe normally. It is clear that this condition is not pleasant, and we automatically reach for a bottle with vasoconstrictor spray or drops. Are they really that harmless?
Dependence on these drugs is formed under the influence of the following factors:
- temporary – when the drops are used for longer than 5-7 days. The nasal mucosa dries out. To maintain free nasal breathing, an increase in the number of drops per dose is required.
- physical - adrenaline, due to which the nasal passages are cleared, is no longer produced by the body independently, but enters the body from the outside in the form of drops. Physical dependence sets in. After 2-3 months, the body will be completely dependent on external adrenaline.
- psychological – develops against the background of long-term use of the drug. The ability to breathe through the nose has been restored, but the habit of injecting spray remains.
- physiological - prolonged swelling in the nose can be explained by an individual characteristic. It occurs when there is a deviated nasal septum, sinusitis, and a number of other diseases, which explains the need to use vasoconstrictor drops.
Addiction to nasal drops
A simple way to improve nasal breathing is to use nasal drops. In any pharmacy, the range of such drops is amazing in its diversity. However, harmless nose drops for longer will lead to dependence on the drug, which will be no different from a drug addiction. So what should you know about addiction treatment?
Drops like a drug
In Russia, out of 10 drug addicts, 7 use eye drops in the form of injections in their pure form, three mix them with some known type of drug. Eye drops turn into monsters on which all those drugs that previously needed water for preparation are “brewed”. Eye drops enhance the effect of any drug.
How do drug addicts use Cyclomed?
It’s not for nothing that seemingly safe eye drops in the nose are considered a drug. Today they are included in the list of medicines subject to strict reporting. Previously, a prescription for Cyclomed was not needed; you could buy eye drops at any pharmacy for pennies. It is precisely because of their ease of accessibility that they have become widespread among drug addicts.
How do drug addicts use eye drops? The drug is used by addicts for other than its intended purpose. Eye drops are used by drug addicts (dropped) into the nose (nasally). The M-anticholinergics contained in the drug affect the human central nervous system. When cyclomed is instilled into the nose, the narcotic effect occurs faster, since the medicine is quickly distributed by the circulatory system throughout the addict’s body. The effect on the central nervous system also increases.
Material and methods
When developing a method for the chemical and toxicological analysis of cyclomed in physical evidence and biological fluids, the following equipment was used: ultraviolet (UV) spectrophotometer SF 2000; Agilent 1200 liquid chromatograph with diode array detector (DMF); gas chromatograph Agilent HP 6850 with mass selective detector HP 5973N (USA); Sorbfil PTSKH-P-A-UF plates with a polymer backing.
To carry out color and sediment reactions and physicochemical studies, we used Dragendorff, Markey, Mundellin, Bushard-Wagner reagents, concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids, 0.1 M hydrochloric acid solution, aqueous ammonia, anhydrous sodium sulfate; reagent grade and analytical grade solvents: chloroform, ethanol, acetone, 2-propanol, ethyl acetate, hexane, acetonitrile.
What happens if you put Cyclomed in your nose?
Let us remember that the therapeutic dose of the drug is very small, usually no more than three drops per day. Drug addicts use narcotic eye drops not at all according to the instructions. They exceed the established permissible dosage tens of times when the drops are used for recreational purposes for other purposes. As a rule, in one visit the drug addict empties the entire bottle. And this is 5 ml of the drug! Naturally, regular overdose of medications cannot but affect the health of the addicted person.
Cyclomed in the nose: what is the effect?
What does it feel like to take eye drops into your nose (cyclomed trip)? Already in the first minutes after use, the addict feels the symptoms of an overdose: dizziness, clouded consciousness. The peak effect of the pharmaceutical drug on the body occurs quite quickly. As a result, a person completely loses control over himself and his actions, his coordination of movements is impaired, he cannot support his legs, incoming information is poorly perceived and distorted, facial recognition disappears, the person does not even recognize close people, does not distinguish between objects, and cannot pronounce words normally and meaningfully speak sentences and express your thoughts.
And this is only after several doses! With systematic and regular use, eye drops turn into a real drug that penetrates a person’s consciousness, causes severe psychological dependence and changes his psychotype. A drug addict changes both internally and externally: he becomes withdrawn, unkempt, changes his company and environment to addicts like him, and often behaves aggressively and unpredictably, which poses a danger both to himself and to the people around him.
Under Cyclomed, addicts can commit crimes, thefts, robberies, assaults, murders, suicide, etc. Even after the drug has stopped working, the effect persists, since the drug causes irreparable harm to the psyche and health of the addicted person, gradually destroying him as a person.
Narcotic eye drops can affect the addict in other ways. Quite often, after using the drug, a person simply falls asleep and sleeps for quite a long time. The effect of the drug is strictly individual and depends on a number of factors, including age, gender, health status and the presence of diseases of internal organs and the central nervous system. So, drops in the eyes, which are essentially a drug, give very serious consequences after waking up: nausea, weakness, fatigue, headache.
Excruciating pain forces the addict to take the next dose of the drug. With such use, addiction at a psychological level develops quite quickly. In this case, the dosage regularly has to be increased due to the development of tolerance to the drug. The side effects of Cyclomed are quite severe. This is a drug-induced coma and death.
If cyclomed gets into the eyes, it acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain and changes the mechanism of nerve impulses in the eye muscles. If the substance is instilled into the nose, it almost instantly penetrates the blood and spreads throughout the body. Once in the brain, the drug causes various hallucinations, clouding of reason, and loss of reality. It is in pursuit of these narcotic effects that young people begin to use Cyclomed.
However, they do not think at all, and sometimes are simply unaware of the deadly side effects of the drug.
Consequences of taking cyclomed in the nose
When taken for recreational purposes over a long period of time, it destroys the brain, connections between neurons, and the nervous system of the addicted person.
Brain cells are destroyed due to regular intoxication, resulting in impaired perception of reality, confusion, hallucinations, impaired coordination, decreased cognitive functions and intelligence. The addict has incoherent speech and sudden mood swings. The effect of the drug largely depends on the initial state of the person’s psyche. Some people experience euphoria and a lift in mood after consuming a few drops, while others immediately experience headaches, aggression, and an apathetic state. However, the elation, as a rule, is quickly replaced by opposite symptoms when the effect of the drug wears off. A person experiences drowsiness, dizziness, fatigue and lack of strength. Upon awakening, severe headache and nausea occur.
How to get rid of addiction to drops? Treatment methods abroad
To get rid of drug addiction, you must first contact a competent specialist. An ENT doctor will identify the cause of nasal congestion and select an individual treatment regimen for you. A diagnostic study will help to understand the cause of long-term rhinitis - X-ray, CT scan of the sinuses or sinus scanning (safe even for pregnant women).
It is also necessary to refuse drops correctly, because in this case we are talking about the ability to breathe. Abrupt withdrawal from the drug may result in “withdrawal syndrome.” Therefore, first we reduce the portion, then we switch to the children’s dosage, then we use gentle remedies prescribed by the doctor.
Addiction to nasal drops - how to get rid of it at home
It is very difficult to get rid of drip addiction on your own. The only helpers are glucocorticosteroids. But their use is also not unambiguous, because it is unknown how the hormone will behave in the addict’s body and what processes it will trigger.
An alternative solution may be turbinate surgery. Now one of the leading methods of getting rid of eternal nasal congestion has become submucosal radiofrequency reduction.
Over the past few years, doctors have been actively working to introduce progressive approaches to drug addiction treatment in Israel. They will be successful if you consult a doctor on time!
Mechanism of action of Cyclomed
When used according to the instructions, a drug from the group of m-anticholinergics has a direct effect on the visual muscles, which leads to pupil dilation. As a result, it becomes difficult for a person to see objects that are in close proximity to him and his face. Up close they blur, making it difficult to write and read. However, when therapeutic doses are used, the effect of the drops wears off quite quickly. After 8-12 hours, vision returns to normal.
The use of Cyclomed facilitates the work of ophthalmologists; it is much easier for them to examine the fundus of the eye and identify pathologies when the patient’s pupil is dilated. This facilitates diagnosis and makes it better and faster. The drug quickly penetrates the mucous membrane and begins its effect within 10 minutes. It is even used when examining and treating children.
Use of cyclomed intravenously
This is the greatest danger of this substance. Most drug addicts “pump cyclomed through their veins,” despite the fact that intravenous use is not included in the instructions at all. Since the prices for heroin and other opiates are constantly rising, and the financial situation of drug addicts is rapidly deteriorating, they begin to inject Cyclomed intravenously.
Why do drug addicts use Cyclomed? First of all, to obtain drug intoxication, euphoria and calmness, and escape from problems. After the injection, a person feels flying and incredible lightness, then drowsiness, hallucinations occur, and the addict finds himself in a world of illusions. The short-term effect of the drug pushes a person to use the drug again. Tolerance develops quite quickly, which contributes to the risk of overdose.
"Cyclomed" and "Tropicamide" - what are the differences?
What other eye drops do drug addicts use? Unfortunately, Cyclomed drops are not the only ones used by addicts as a drug. Among pharmaceutical drugs, Tropicamide is quite famous. In fact, these drugs have identical properties and mechanism of action. However, regular use of tropicamide can lead to complete blindness after 3-4 months, and non-healing wounds remain at the injection site, the skin becomes sallow, hemoglobin drops, vascular destruction occurs, and then tissue necrosis.
With the help of tropicamide, heroin addicts try to hide their addiction, since opiates greatly constrict the pupils. Cyclomed and tropicamide help dilate the pupil, but such manipulations quickly lead to deterioration of vision. Among other things, tropicamide enhances the effect of heroin, but it has to be administered more often, which sooner or later leads to an overdose. Only experienced narcologists with many years of experience who work in drug rehabilitation in Krasnodar can cure such addiction.
Approaches to the treatment of dependence on drops in the Israeli clinic "Renaissance"
"Renaissance" is the largest drug treatment clinic in Israel to combat any, even the most advanced cases of addiction. A high-quality treatment program, drawn up and implemented by highly qualified addiction specialists, guarantees successful recovery from addictions.
Subsequent rehabilitation takes into account concomitant psychological or physiological abnormalities in the body. Any treatment and rehabilitation programs are compiled and adjusted strictly individually.
Typically, drug addicts take vasoconstrictor drops in combination with other hard drugs - heroin or amphetamine. Therefore, treatment should begin with diagnosis. This will be followed by detoxification of the body and its rehabilitation.
Tropicamide and Cyclomed destroy the body so much that it is no longer possible to completely restore it. To protect him from the further destructive effects of addiction, you need to come to the clinic as soon as possible, here the best methods of treating drug addiction are at your service.
It is important to remember: self-medication will not lead to any good!
Side effects of Cyclomed
The instructions indicate side effects, but they do not say at all about the possible risk of drug dependence on the pharmaceutical drug. Among the negative effects of the drug when used recreationally, one can highlight a drop in hemoglobin, deterioration of vision and thinking, mental impairment, the functions of all vital systems of the body, and the appearance of ulcers and abscesses at injection sites during intravenous use. The body gives in quite quickly under the pressure of toxins, and a number of failures and deviations occur.
How long do drug addicts who use intravenous eye drops live? As a rule, no more than 1-2 years, after which they gradually degrade, and changes in their body become irreversible.
Consequences of taking cyclomed
The harm of the drug is difficult to overestimate. The consequences depend on individual factors in the human body. In any case, when using the drug as a drug to obtain euphoria, a person will receive intoxication of the body, persistent dependence and, in most cases, an overdose with a fatal outcome. A person externally dependent on Cyclomed can be identified by inappropriate behavior, shifty eyes, sudden weight loss, chronic fatigue, drowsiness and irritability. Symptoms of addiction include not only anxiety and weight loss, but also non-healing wounds at injection sites. With regular use, dehydration, a drop in hemoglobin, metabolic disorders, decreased immunity, heart disease, tachycardia, speech impairment, as well as a coma that can be fatal occur. When providing emergency care, doctors use the cyclomed antagonist, Physostigmine. It is important to call a doctor in time and seek drug treatment.
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Treatment
Treatment for addiction to Cyclomed is carried out according to the same principles as the treatment of other types of drug addiction. Due to the habit of taking the drug, the destructive effects on all organs and systems require hospitalization and constant long-term supervision by specialists.
The addiction treatment program includes the following stages:
- Detoxification. The body is cleansed not only of the last dose of the drug, but also of toxins that were deposited in the tissues during use and now continue to poison the body.
- Drug therapy. Supports and improves the functioning of internal organs, helps stabilize the patient’s physical condition.
- Psychotherapy. To eliminate the psychological need for the drug, individual sessions with a psychologist and group classes are conducted.
- Social adaptation. Support at this stage helps the drug addict regain his position in society. To reduce stress levels, integration into society is carried out with the participation of specialists.
Attempts to stop using on your own often end in failure. In addition, for a real cure it is necessary not only to stop taking the substance, but also to restore the activity of the affected organs. An important role is played by identifying the psychological causes of drug addiction, developing new healthy ways of behavior and solving life problems.
