Youths all over the world, are known to be energetic, innovative vibrant and most importantly, experimental.
This curiosity and the need to know, has lead him into trying out new things. New things that are intentionally and deliberately innovated, or new things that are accidentally stumbled upon.
For some people, their discovery of coffee or codeine were probably stumbled upon. Truly, the discovery of coffee was stumbled upon by man. But the discovery of the opiate codeine, was definitely not stumbled upon.
Codeine, over the years, has been used to treat various degrees of pain. From Mild to moderate. It is often found in cough syrup.
Codeine is a part of a group of drugs known as Opioids. Opioids are depressant drugs. This kind of drugs slow down the messages travelling between the brains and the body.
Most people who take codeine, do not even know that they might get addicted to it. And because the addiction is moderate, they do not often realise that their bodies are beginning to gain dependency on the drug.
So, it will be safe to say: that some users of this drugs, stumbled on it.
Now, as a result of man's desire to get more, the purple drank was invented. This is obtained when young people mix codeine with soft drinks like sprite and Mountain Dew. It is often subtle, but that is the most common way to get addicted.
Just like codeine was stumbled upon or deliberately invented by man, because he needed an extra push, or a different
Feel, so was coffee.
The similarity between this two substances that are not really food, but can be safely classified as "beverages" is that they all have something extra. Something that gives an extra effect.
For coffee, it is the presence of caffeine. People have over the years, being known to be addicted to caffeine.
That means that as one can be subtly unaware of their addiction to codeine, so can they also be subtly unaware of addiction to coffee, because of the presence of caffeine.
Where the side effects of the addiction of codeine is dangerous and unhealthy to the body systems, that of coffee is a different tale altogether.
Some of the effects of having too much codeine in your system are as follows:
* inability to pass urine
*severe constipation and obstructed bowel
*agitation
*mental numbness
*very slow shallow breathing
*hallucination and sometimes seizures
*coma and death.
Whereas, the benefits of taking coffee are numerous:
*helps prevent premature death
*reduce mortality
*protect against cirrhosis
*lowers the risk of liver cancer by over 40 percent
*reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by 11percent.
*is a powerful antioxidant.
Yes, the search by man, to get a different feeling every time, cannot be robbed from him. It is inherent that man tries to search, discover, know, and satisfy his curiosity.
So weather he stumbles on it, or deliberately conjure it, it is best that he chooses what will be less harmful to hisgeneral well being.
And if you ask me, the best thing for that extra push, or that different feeling, or that unexplainable edge is definitely
coffee. I will choose caffeine any day over codeine.
If there's one thing I owe my body, it is to take utmost care of it. And respect the one who gave it to me.
Written by Mary Jane. .
