Black tar heroin

Subject was received into the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) on February 16, 2000 for burglary in the 1st as a third striker. Subject arrived at CCI on July 7, 2015. Subject will be housed in Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU) placement in Facility A Housing Unit 6 cell B 106L, for self-expressed safety concerns. Subject explained that he was assigned as a porter in Facility A Housing Unit 3, and that Officer Lopez caught him with a kite/note that he was supposed to take to Inmate with the aka of “Black” in A section cell 106. The inmate with the aka of Black was identified as Inmate Herndon (K37052) Facility A 4A-106L. Subject stated he didn’t read the kite/note, but that an Inmate by the name of “Gary”…

Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, focused on the opiate epidemic that has been flourishing within America. Similarly, the documentary, Heroin Cape Cod, USA focused on the widespread abuse of Vicodin, Percocet, and Oxycodone that has led the U.S. into the rise of an opiate addiction today. Both of these sources not only focused on the operations behind the administration of opiates like heroin, but also the factors driving the epidemic in the U.S. A driving factor of the opiate epidemic both…

those medications because patients can become dependent on these drugs. Opiates, Vicodin, narco, hydrocodone, oxycodone, Percocet and heroin, morphine, hydromorphine, are all made from the opium plants. After cold war with Russia, patients felt the need not to be under any pain.…

Drugs are categorised into the following main groups: Depressants,Opiates and Opioids, stimulants and hallucinogens. Heroin is a depressant and is derived from the opium poppy, putting it in the opiate and opioids group. In the late 1800’s it was considered a less addictive and more affective drug than morphine and was used in treating the symptoms of respiratory discomfort and infection due to its sedative and slowing effects. Not only was it praised amongst the medical personnel at this time,…

Madeline Hernandez Mr. Sanchez Health Career 17 February 2017 Heroin Heroin is a highly addictive drug that is used mainly by teenagers and young adults. Researchers have found that people who use heroin tend to become addicted. As the user of the drug becomes addicted they will spend more of their energy and more of their time obtaining the drug. Heroin will eventually take control and change the persons brain, thoughts, actions, movements and even personality. Heroin has many different…

Drugs are horrible things that can tear families apart. However, there are drugs that are prescribed to millions, every day. Prescribed medication can help strengthen the person, and bring families together. You often wonder where the line lays between prescription drugs and illegal ones. The legal drugs have many side effects, and can be as dangerous as the illegal ones. Heroin and Oxycodone have similarities. Yet, one is legal and the other is not. It’s insane how the one is much more…

Opiate and heroin abuse has ravaged much of Appalachia, especially suburban areas. This malignancy spreads like cancer, multiplying and infecting all it encounters. Communities are disrupted and innocent lives are consumed while the obscure market for heroin continues its expansion across the United States. This affliction in our country has an origin. As a journalist and novelist, Sam Quinones, diligently reveals the inception of heroin in his book titled, “Dreamland”. Quinolones describes…

for many reasons—for instance, they may be doing it to escape reality, or put their lives on pause for a while. By doing this, these people are willingly allowing these drugs to wreak havoc on their bodies and minds. One drug that is able to do this with ease is heroin. Heroin is injected into a person’s arm with a syringe (Amsden 1). It can also be smoked or snorted…

Sam Quinones’ Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic portrays the addiction epidemic that was cultivated into a catastrophe by pharmaceutical companies and doctors who billed opiates as risk-free drugs. Based on the evidences the book provides, drug traffickers from Mexico delivered black-tar heroin to desperate addicts in typical cities throughout the United States. Consequently, the themes that emerged in Dreamland includes the expansion of heroin and the mass-marketing of legal…

Heroin, one of the most dangerous drugs on the street. Injecting this lethal venom into your veins can kill you the first time you use it. Everyone should know the effects this drug has on you mentally and physically. As well as what is in the disgusting drug that will cause you all these problems you don’t want to have. Heroin is made from the Asian opium poppy plant. Morphine can be extracted from the seed of this plant and that is the main ingredient in the drug. Heroin can be a white or…