Opioids are among most abused high addictive medications in the USA; mainly they are used to relief pain. Opioids are an umbrella that covers many different drug substances, both natural and synthetic. Opiates are alkaloid compounds naturally found in the opium poppy plant. It has been used for numerous different reasons such as medical, recreational, and religious. Historians reference the opium discovery and use is in 3400 B.C. when the opium poppy was cultivated in lower Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq and Syria and Iran. The Sumerians civilization called to the opium poppy as “Hul Gil” – the “Joy Plant,” and would pass the plant and its euphoric effects on to the Assyrians, who in turn passed it on to the Egyptians. Since then it
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was the first Company in USA started the production of opioid, and heroin, on a commercial scale and sold it to market by presenting it as miracle drug, and addicts learned that its effects may well be amplified by injecting it to the body directly. This was the beginning of the downward spiral of opioid abuse. Roughly 100 years after marketing heroin and widely prescribed to everyone including children as safe medicine by Bayer Co. In 1912 The first regulation to compact this out of control issue was passed by USA federal government, it was called the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, they imposed a higher tax on those making, importing or selling any derivative of opium or coca leaves. By 1920 heroin was banned, but as technology and knowledge keep enlightening pharmaceutical manufactures and labs come up new drugs by manipulating the chemical compounds formulas of heroin. This was the birth of synthetic Opioids. 1996 thinks escalated and spread fast due to the birth of OxyContin and Percocet and both of these two are the most frequently prescribed opioids used to treat pain, but these two narcotics contain the active ingredient oxycodone. The molecular structures of heroin and oxycodone are almost identical, these and the most of Prescription opioids come from the same place heroin does, the opium poppy and today they are far more addictive they any other …show more content…
Sadly this has to do with many factories, but mainly its profit oriented and market domination competition between illicit heroin supplier and pharmaceutical companies produce heroin like opioids. In the last 10 years the supply of heroin and purity increased while the price dropped at is lowest in years. On the other hand what fueling more about the epidemic opioid fixation is individuals Self-diagnosing them self’s , by browsing through internet in few minutes or hours, this kind self-exploration contribute doctors to overprescribe unnecessary highly additive pain killers. When patients lost their insurance or no longer able to obtain the substance they addicted to will seek any substitute to feed their dependence, in this case turning to black market to get heroin which is a lot cheaper and more deadly due to purity and variety of forms some lethal then
was the first Company in USA started the production of opioid, and heroin, on a commercial scale and sold it to market by presenting it as miracle drug, and addicts learned that its effects may well be amplified by injecting it to the body directly. This was the beginning of the downward spiral of opioid abuse. Roughly 100 years after marketing heroin and widely prescribed to everyone including children as safe medicine by Bayer Co. In 1912 The first regulation to compact this out of control issue was passed by USA federal government, it was called the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, they imposed a higher tax on those making, importing or selling any derivative of opium or coca leaves. By 1920 heroin was banned, but as technology and knowledge keep enlightening pharmaceutical manufactures and labs come up new drugs by manipulating the chemical compounds formulas of heroin. This was the birth of synthetic Opioids. 1996 thinks escalated and spread fast due to the birth of OxyContin and Percocet and both of these two are the most frequently prescribed opioids used to treat pain, but these two narcotics contain the active ingredient oxycodone. The molecular structures of heroin and oxycodone are almost identical, these and the most of Prescription opioids come from the same place heroin does, the opium poppy and today they are far more addictive they any other …show more content…
Sadly this has to do with many factories, but mainly its profit oriented and market domination competition between illicit heroin supplier and pharmaceutical companies produce heroin like opioids. In the last 10 years the supply of heroin and purity increased while the price dropped at is lowest in years. On the other hand what fueling more about the epidemic opioid fixation is individuals Self-diagnosing them self’s , by browsing through internet in few minutes or hours, this kind self-exploration contribute doctors to overprescribe unnecessary highly additive pain killers. When patients lost their insurance or no longer able to obtain the substance they addicted to will seek any substitute to feed their dependence, in this case turning to black market to get heroin which is a lot cheaper and more deadly due to purity and variety of forms some lethal then