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Transforming Opium Poppies Into Heroin | FRONTLINE | PBS

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The flower is grown mainly by impoverished farmers on small plots in remote regions of the world. It flourishes in dry, warm climates and the vast majority of opium poppies are grown in a narrow, 4,500-mile stretch of mountains extending across southern Asia from Turkey through Pakistan and Laos.

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More than 60 percent of teens said that drugs were sold, used, or kept at their school.

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News about heroin. Commentary and archival information about heroin from The New York Times.

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- Barillas, Christopher V.G. "Heroin." Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students, edited by Stacey L. Blachford and Kristine Krapp, Gale, 2003, pp. 211-220. Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=lom_inac&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CCX3402000105&it=r&asid=698007a56a06faadb516449c951db826. Accessed 24 Mar. 2017.

- "Heroin." UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances, edited by Barbara C. Bigelow, vol. 3, UXL, 2006, pp. 399-420. Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=lom_inac&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CCX3448100060&it=r&asid=1237470f7b268121d8e3131ae24987c5. Accessed 24 Mar. 2017.

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- “From the day I started using, I never stopped. Within one week I had gone from snorting heroin to shooting it. Within one month I was addicted and going through all my money. I sold everything of value that I owned and eventually everything that my mother owned. Within one year, I had lost everything.

“I sold my car, lost my job, was kicked out of my mother’s house, was $25,000 in credit card debt, and living on the streets of Camden, New Jersey. I lied, I stole, I cheated.

“I was raped, beaten, mugged, robbed, arrested, homeless, sick and desperate. I knew that nobody could have a lifestyle like that very long and I knew that death was imminent. If anything, death was better than a life as a junkie.” —Alison

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- Heroin in 1898 was common among British women, in their forties...now its common among 18 year-old men
- Heroin is derived from a German word Heroisch, which means heroic....many people believe they feel heroic while on the drug.
- "The history of opium usage stretches back to 3400 B.C., where it was first cultivated in lower Mesopotamia. The Sumerians called the poppy Hul Gil or the "joy plant." The art of poppy cultivation spread from the Sumerians to the Assyrians, and from the Assyrians to the Babylonians and Egyptians" (Barillas).

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- YES, Heroin is popular amongst teens. This is unfortunate because heroin destroys lives.
- "Users are most likely to be white and male. Whites and blacks are equally represented among heroin users in Birmingham, Alabama, and Columbia, South Carolina; and Hispanics are the dominant user group in El Paso, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. In Denver and Philadelphia, white users predominate, but Hispanics are overrepresented relative to their percentage of the general population. Similarly, in Boston, whites are more numerous among heroin users, but blacks are overrepresented" (Barillas).
- "The trend towards use by young people was confirmed by the 2000 Monitoring the Future Study, which reported that 10.6% of high school seniors had tried heroin" (Gordon).

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- "Because of its analgesic (painkilling) properties, opium and its derivatives have long been used for the treatment of ailments. Throughout the nineteenth century in England and the United States, opium was administered in plasters, pills, cough drops, lozenges, and many other applications dispensed by physicians and pharmacists" (Barillas).

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- "The first time it is used, the drug creates a sensation of being high. A person can feel extroverted, able to communicate easily with others and may experience a sensation of heightened sexual performance—but not for long" (Drug Free World).
- Heroin makes the person feel as if they can do anything. Addicts who suffer withdrawal symptoms even for a few hours go crazy.
- The rush that heroin gives addicts make them come back for more and more.

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- Heroin addiction is very expensive... an addictive will spend anywhere from $80-$200 a day to get high.
- Heroin can be either injected, sniffed, or smoked. People who use it immediately feel a warm, detached, relaxed sensation. They also feel less anxiety.
- Around 9.2 MILLION people are currently addicted to Heroin.
- "In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder. But more often, it is found to be rose gray, brown or black in color" (Drug Free World).

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- Heroin is a DEPRESSANT

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- Using dirty needles may lead to spreading HIV, and Hepatitis B and C.
- "Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful. The drug quickly breaks down the immune system, finally leaving one sickly, extremely thin and bony and, ultimately, dead" (Drug Free World).

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- Molecular formula: C21H23NO5
- 93% of the world's opium comes from Afghanistan.
- (5α,6α)-7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol diacetate
- "Heroin is simply an organic, or plant-derived, compound that combines morphine with acetic acid (vinegar) or acetic anhydride (an acid). It is processed from the same raw gum opium that can produce morphine, codeine, or thebaine. Farmers drain the sap from ripening opium poppies and boil it down into a sticky gum. The gum is treated in a water base with chemicals such as lime, ammonium chloride, activated charcoal, and hydrochloric acid. This causes the morphine to leach out of the gum" (Bigelow).

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YES, Heroin is an illicit narcotic drug!!

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YES, Heroin is an illicit narcotic drug!!

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Slang Name: Smack, Dope, Black Tar, Atom Bomb, Mud, Horse, H, Skag, Dragon; (using slang- Chasing the Dragon, Dip Dap, Jolly Pop)

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Slang Name: Smack, Dope, Black Tar, Atom Bomb, Mud, Horse, H, Skag, Dragon; (using slang- Chasing the Dragon, Dip Dap, Jolly Pop)