Heroin
MORPHINE was first identified as the pain-relieving active ingredient in OPIUM in 1806. But morphine was not free of the habit-forming and toxic effects of opium. By the late nineteenth century...
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Heroin: the British System
What is sometimes referred to as the British "system" of drug control isnot really a system; rather, it is a setof principles and programs that represent one f...
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Heroin and morphine belong to a group of drugs called opiates. Opiates are derived from the opium poppy. Morphine was first identified as a painkiller in 1806. The problem with morphine was tha...
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OFFICIAL NAMES: Heroin (diacetylmorphine)
STREET NAMES: H, horse, boy, smack, stuff, mud, dope, tar, black tar, dragon fire, king kong, cat woman, hat man, TNT, white skull, body bag, creeper, ...
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In 1868, Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922), professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and Thomas Fraser (1841-1920) examined quaternary ammonium salts of various alkaloi...
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What Kind of Drug Is It?
Heroin is a powerful narcotic drug that is very habit-forming. It is derived from the opium poppy plant. Its sale and use are illegal in most parts of the world. Howeve...
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Okay, picture this; you are scooping ice cream at your neighborhood Long Island Cold Stone Creamery and a TV crew busts in to tell you that you've got the lead in the star-packed new musical movie ...
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An illegal lab in Mexico produced some of the powerful painkiller that killed dozens of people in Chicago last year who ingested with heroin, according to newly unsealed indictments.Two drug conspi...
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Massachusetts officials next month will begin distributing kits to heroin addicts that include medication to treat overdoses.Advocates say the kits will help treat overdoses quickly, safely and wit...
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More than three dozen people have been arrested in connection with a ring suspected of smuggling $35 million in Colombian heroin to New York and New Jersey through Mexico.Federal prosecutors in San...
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KABUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Afghanistan, the world's biggest
heroin producer, is struggling to cope with a drug problem as
thousands of Afghans -- trying to cope with the traumas of war,
displacemen...
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The Taliban appointed a judge and a police chief and drove through town in stolen police trucks. They oversaw dozens of heroin labs, using the profits to fund their insurgency.That was life under t...
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Nikki Blonsky: Hairspray Heroine
