Heroin: What Has It Done To Our Society?
Heroin:
What has it done to our society?
Figure 1
(Some smoking heroin, Drug and Alcohol Rehab Headquarters, 2010)
Talia Krebs-Oppenheimer
Animal Behavior
Professor Goldberg
Abstract:
Heroin is one of the worlds most dangerous drugs when addicted. It is widely used in American culture and many other places. This drug can be found throughout the world, one of the largest producers of opium in Afghanistan with Mexico coming in after it. Heroin comes from the opium poppy, which looks like a regular poppy, but when it is cultivated and grown in the right climate it can be turned into heroin, morphine or codeine. Heroin is one of the drugs, which you are less likely to become addicted too except if you are in a hard emotional …show more content…
Heroin is one of the few drugs that come from the opioid plant. This drug can be highly addictive because of the type of high that it gives off. It does not give you the same type of high that marijuana does but it feels like a rush of energy rushing through your body. With many drugs, they can consume your body and your life making your addiction one of the most important duties that you’re body needs you to help feed.
Introduction:
Heroin is an opium derivative, which means that it comes from the opium poppy. Opium became a popular drug in the 1800’s when the Chinese immigrants brought it to the United States when they came here to work on the railroads. Heroin is sometimes called the “flower of joy” because of the feeling it gives off when smoked or taken. It is one of the most powerful painkillers known to man. It is one of the three drugs that can be made from the opium poppy; the other two are morphine and codeine. Morphine and heroin are very similar drugs because they have some of the same effects but because it is not a natural drug it is more powerful. Opium poppies grow best when they are in dry, warm climates, similar to China, Mexico and now more popularly found in Afghanistan, which are some of the locations that are poppy rich. This drug has affected many of societies biggest celebrities have been affected by. It can be a very powerful drug when it is used frequently …show more content…
Up until 1920, heroin, morphine and other opium derivatives were sold legally and Congress did not regulate them. It was not until 1920 when Congress realized that these drugs could potentially be dangerous to the users (http://www.narconon.org/, 2013). Before heroin became such a lethal and popular drug, morphine was the choice for many people. It was developed as a painkiller because it eliminated severe pain and with the numbers of people who were returning to the United States with war related injuries the numbers of users increased highly (http://www.narconon.org). Within 10 years of morphine being introduced to the United States, the numbers of users rocketed. Heroin was introduced to the United States as a substitute for morphine because it was “safe, non-addictive”. There are many different names for heroin: smack, brown, black or in medical terms diamorphine. The drug is only called heroin when it is being sold illegally otherwise it is called by the medical name of diamorphine. It is not used on a daily bases in the medical field but when it is used, it is used to treat severe pain such as someone who is recovering from a heart attack or a severe
What has it done to our society?
Figure 1
(Some smoking heroin, Drug and Alcohol Rehab Headquarters, 2010)
Talia Krebs-Oppenheimer
Animal Behavior
Professor Goldberg
Abstract:
Heroin is one of the worlds most dangerous drugs when addicted. It is widely used in American culture and many other places. This drug can be found throughout the world, one of the largest producers of opium in Afghanistan with Mexico coming in after it. Heroin comes from the opium poppy, which looks like a regular poppy, but when it is cultivated and grown in the right climate it can be turned into heroin, morphine or codeine. Heroin is one of the drugs, which you are less likely to become addicted too except if you are in a hard emotional …show more content…
Heroin is one of the few drugs that come from the opioid plant. This drug can be highly addictive because of the type of high that it gives off. It does not give you the same type of high that marijuana does but it feels like a rush of energy rushing through your body. With many drugs, they can consume your body and your life making your addiction one of the most important duties that you’re body needs you to help feed.
Introduction:
Heroin is an opium derivative, which means that it comes from the opium poppy. Opium became a popular drug in the 1800’s when the Chinese immigrants brought it to the United States when they came here to work on the railroads. Heroin is sometimes called the “flower of joy” because of the feeling it gives off when smoked or taken. It is one of the most powerful painkillers known to man. It is one of the three drugs that can be made from the opium poppy; the other two are morphine and codeine. Morphine and heroin are very similar drugs because they have some of the same effects but because it is not a natural drug it is more powerful. Opium poppies grow best when they are in dry, warm climates, similar to China, Mexico and now more popularly found in Afghanistan, which are some of the locations that are poppy rich. This drug has affected many of societies biggest celebrities have been affected by. It can be a very powerful drug when it is used frequently …show more content…
Up until 1920, heroin, morphine and other opium derivatives were sold legally and Congress did not regulate them. It was not until 1920 when Congress realized that these drugs could potentially be dangerous to the users (http://www.narconon.org/, 2013). Before heroin became such a lethal and popular drug, morphine was the choice for many people. It was developed as a painkiller because it eliminated severe pain and with the numbers of people who were returning to the United States with war related injuries the numbers of users increased highly (http://www.narconon.org). Within 10 years of morphine being introduced to the United States, the numbers of users rocketed. Heroin was introduced to the United States as a substitute for morphine because it was “safe, non-addictive”. There are many different names for heroin: smack, brown, black or in medical terms diamorphine. The drug is only called heroin when it is being sold illegally otherwise it is called by the medical name of diamorphine. It is not used on a daily bases in the medical field but when it is used, it is used to treat severe pain such as someone who is recovering from a heart attack or a severe