Why is alcohol withdrawal more deadly in comparison to “harder” drugs like heroin?
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The body has homeostatic mechanisms which allow it to respond to stress. Heroin is merely a desulfonated amino so has only the bodily tolerance mechanism of increased excretion when it is administered. Alcohol is more dangerous, a strong sedative, so that the body is blowing out its signals ratio at all levels when alcohol tolerance is seen. The only side effect of heroin tolerance is increased excretion hardness and waiting. However, because heroin removes the sulfonyl part of the bodily process, it can be dangerous outright especially if injected or smoked or swallowed. In alcohol withdrawal this can physically produce death because the signal is so loud it is causing distortion at dangerous levels to bodily processes while in heroin withdrawal this rarely produces death, but is more uncomfortable because the satisfaction of faecal suppression is taken away in favor of large excretion.
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