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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Heroin
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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During the nearly three decades that heroin was legal, hundreds of thousands of Americans from all walks of life who used the drug for pain relief and other medicinal purposes developed addictions to ...
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A man retrieved a package of white powder from his back pocket, removed a small quantity of it with the edge of his pocket knife, placed it on a pocket mirror, and began sniffing it. He had done this ...
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