In a city of 645,000, the Baltimore Department of Health estimates there are 60,000 drug addicts, with as many as 48,000 of them hooked on heroin. A federal report released last month puts the number of heroin addicts alone at 60,000.
Confidence votes 68. You can inactivate them, not kill them. They are technically not alive. Think of them more like a substance, a protein to be exact. household bleach will inactivate prions if left in a bleach/water solution for at least 30 minutes. the directions for this are under the prions topic on Wikipedia.rions are not eukaryotic. In fact, prions aren't even alive. They are merely an infectious protein, like a virus or a viroid. A commonly known prion is the mad cow disease.
The organic nitrates, including nitroglycerin, isosorbide dinitrate and isosorbide mononitrate, act as prodrugs for nitric oxide (NO) which is a potent vasodilator gas. Nitric oxide activates guanylyl-cyclase in vascular endothelial cells, which increases intracellular cyclic GMP and thereby reduces intracellular calcium concentrates and dephosphorylates myosin light chains causing relaxation of smooth muscle cells.