Reaction to certain medications. 1  Environmental irritants. 2  Poor oral hygiene. 3  Tobacco exposure or alcohol consumption. 4  Candida yeast infection (Oral Thrush) 5  Tongue inflammation, such as Glossitis. 6  Spicy foods such as habanero and jalapeÃ±o peppers contain compounds in the peppers that are correlated with white tongue.
Heroin (diacetylmorphine) is used for treatment of severe acute pain (such as severe acute pain due to myocardial infarction or heart attack, end stage cancer pain, post surgical pain, terminal illnesses etc.) in some countries (such as United Kingdom), as strong analgesic.
New Approaches Seek To Expand Naltrexone Use in Heroin Treatment. Naltrexone is a medication that is used in the treatment of opiate addiction and alcoholism. Recovering heroin addicts who take the medication cannot get high, even if they try to take heroin again; as a result, they are much less likely to use heroin.