Student Name: Suong Nguyen
Class: SHS 235
Instructor: Irene Hauzinger
Date: 7/23/2015 Heroin Research Paper
Heroin is one of the most dangerous highly addictive drugs on the black market today. A board member of the National Institute of Health estimated that there are currently about 600,000 heroin addicts in the U.S. alone. Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. During World War II, a German chemist, Aschenbrenner, synthesized methadone and named it Dolophine, after Adolph Hitler (Fields, 2013 p.76). Chemist first isolated morphine in the early nineteenth century. During the Civil War, doctors widely used morphine in injectable form, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of the Asian opium poppy plant. It usually appears as a white or brown powder or as a sticky black substance and has been a part of the drug culture for addicts over many years. Heroin is an opiate or a downer that made from the resin taken from the seed pod of the poppy plant. The resin processed in a variety of ways resulting in the final product known as heroin. The processing method determines the appearance of heroin as it has seen on the street. Black tar heroin looks like tootsie roll candy or dark caramel and being packaged in small pieces of aluminum foil, tightly wrapped in plastic or cigarette packages. There is also a form that is black and sticky known on the streets as "black tar heroin.” (NIH 2014).
I chose heroin for my research because I see that there
Heroin is a painkilling drug that is made from the Papaverum Somniferum, also known as the opium poppy plant. All opiates are addictive painkillers. Heroin starts as a milky sap of the opium poppy. The sap is then dried and becomes a gum. After washing the gum, it becomes opium. Morphine and codeine are two painkilling alkaloids that
The media portrays opioid abuse as a new dilemma, but it actually extends as far back as 1898 when Bayer Co. produced heroin, a drug made from opium, and commercialized it to be a “wonder drug” for those in need of pain relief (Moghe 2016). Today, heroin is known to be a dangerous, illegal, and addictive drug. Before doctors
Heroin was first produced in 1898 in Germany, by Bayer Pharmaceutical Company as a substitute for morphine.6 It was marketed as a non-addictive miracle drug, to use as a cough syrup and pain reliever, but 12 years later it was discovered that heroin was about two times as potent as morphine.5-6 Today, we know heroin as a highly addictive narcotic which has played its part in the worst opioid crisis in the history of British Colombia.2 Heroin is an opioid made from the resin of poppy plants which contain morphine.1 The drug itself can be a white or brown powder or a black goo.1 It is commonly mixed with water and injected with a needle right into the body, but can also be smoked or snorted up the nose.1,3 These methods send it very quickly to
Opium is used to create morphine, a drug that is highly addictive and used to treat chronic pain in terminally ill patients as well as other medical conditions. Heroin, an illegal and highly dangerous drug, is made from morphine. “Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.” (NIDA 2017)) Other synthetic opioids that are just as addictive are prescription pain kills such as Oxycotin and Vicodin.
Heroin, derived from morphine, is classified in the opioid family of painkilling drugs, made from the opium poppy plant, specifically the opium from the sap of the plant which is harvested from the seed pods after the flower falls off. The opium poppy is generally grown in Southeast Asia, Mexico, the Middle East and parts of Central and South America (Weintraub 16). Opium was used in the past in countries such as Egypt as a “cure-all” drug and a poison; It was then sold to parts of China and used as a recreational drug that had many users addicted and ruined their lives (Weintraub 16-17). A majority of the heroin in the United States today is smuggled in from South America and Mexico, and is coming over in record amounts
Heroin is an opiate, and is a product that is extracted from the Poppy plant and synthesized from morphine. It is a white-to-dark brown powder or tar-like substance and is highly addictive because its qualities become lesser as use progresses, causing the receiver to need more of the drug to achieve the result of the pain relief. Heroin
Heroin the most addictive flower that hooks users for life that brings the destruction of life. The poppy flower that grasp human mentality by the knees holding them enslave to the euphoria state that the mind has a craving wanting more. This poppy flower has addicts wanting more to have another fix of the poppy flower juice that gives another dose of heroin high. Heroin is easy to search for when looking in the direction for a euphoria journey. As Anthony Brooks (NPR) said “Heroin is the number one dope that could be sold at a cheaper price.” The people that can’t afford their medications through doctor’s orders or a single over-the-medication they look toward the cheapest price of a drug that may take away the pain for a few three hours of pain free. The hook of heroin’s’ grip never lets one go making the mind crave for more like chocolate the sweetness that gives the careless feeling of becoming less than human but a junkie and a dope fiend. The documentation of the Heroin Crisis documentary that America is the dope fiend paradise where addicts can get a fix anywhere without being notice of heroin use and heroin being transported from Mexico, South America, Asia, Laos, Vietnam and Afghanistan the number one supplier. The dope that brings current users wanting more for the craving of heroin and creating new users to make a profit through the heroin addiction that leaves victims overdosed to
Reported heroin use in the United States is rising. Recent data suggest that almost 700,000 Americans consumed heroin last year, which represents an almost 40% increase from 2007 (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Association, 2014; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Association, 2008). An overwhelming increase in the dependence on prescription opioid analgesics over the last two decades combined with a supply heavy market of high quality-low cost heroin imported from South America may be concurrent factors driving this trend (Cicero, Ellis, Surratt, & Kurtz, 2014; Mars, Bourgois, Karandinos, Montero & Ciccarone, 2014; Lankaneau et al., 2011).
Heroin addiction is an incessant, backsliding malady that is portrayed by changes in the mind and wild medication looking for practices notwithstanding the negative results. Heroin is an integrated opioid pain relieving that originates from the Asian opium poppy plant. At the point when utilized, heroin believers to morphine in the body. This substance is utilized in the city as a recreational medication, additionally regularly called dark tar, smoke, chestnut, or tar. Upon starting utilization, individuals who utilize this medication feel a surge of delight, a feeling of well-being, and bliss.
Heroin is a natural substance made from the seed pods of various opium poppy plants grown in southeast/west Asia, Mexico and Columbia. Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin. Ways of using heroin are injecting, sniffing, snorting, or smoking heroin. It’s often mixed with crack cocaine; this practice is called speed balling. Effects of heroin are the heart rate increases; you get less sleep, have trouble breathing. The short-term effects of heroin include dry mouth, flushing of the skin, a feeling of heaviness in the arms and legs, nausea/vomiting, severe itching, it slowly clouds your mental functions, and trouble staying conscious.
One of the most damaging effects of opium and it's derivatives on the current U.S. Social structure is the success of the Mexican drug cartels in dominating the illegal manufacture and distribution of opiates. In addition, the ten year military conflict in Afghanistan , previously one of the largest opiate producers in the world has had an unintended role in providing high quality opiates to the Western world. A result of an increase of these two factors has been an upswing in opiate and heroin related overdoses and deaths.
Heroin one of the most highly addictive drugs in America is back and booming “over 9.2 million people abuse this drug”.( What Makes Heroin So Addictive). It comes from the opium poppy seed originating in Southwest Asia, and founded by Charles Wright. Wright discovered the drug in hopes to create a pain reliever to help everyone. The issue came when the molecular makeup of the drug immediately began to inhibit brain production. Heroin is made up of C21H23NO5 which is carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen it derives from morphine and is a highly addictive analgesic drug and is used as a narcotic producing euphoria.
Heroin is known as an opium drug and is injected directly into a person’s view. It is common knowledge that heroin is a dangerous drug. Philip Seymour Hoffman is just one of countless people who have died from using heroin. The articles that came out after Hoffman died of an overdose suggest a rising heroin epidemic. USA Today and Washington Times were just two of several newspapers and other media outlets to report on this epidemic.
The Poppy plant that bloom with the fragrant red flowers often depicted in paintings, as well as produces Poppy seeds to top breads and bagels, also makes the substance in heroin. Heroin is highly addictive, it is an opioid drug. Organizations estimate 9.2 million people world wide are using heroin. Heroin is most often injected but can be snorted or smoked as well. Research shows around 78 americans die everyday from opioid overdose’s. this ppaper will examine viewpoint one, two and my viewpoint on should cities open supervised injection sites for heroin addicts.
Heroin and commonly known by its street names of H, smack, horse, brown, black, tar, and others, is an opioid analgesic originally synthesized by C.R. Alder Wright in 1874 by adding two acetyl groups to the molecule morphine, which is found naturally in the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-diacetyl ester of morphine. Heroin itself is an inactive drug, but when inserted into the body, it converts into morphine.