Black tar heroin

Heroin: Growing Addiction When I saw that I was required to write a paper on a drug of abuse I knew instantly which drug I was going to select. Heroin. This drug has made a large impact on my personal life the past few years. In early 2014 my boyfriends’ uncle passed away due to the withdrawal of heroin, at the young age of twenty-six. He was not able to overcome the mental damage from the lack of heroin in his system and killed himself. After the incident my boyfriends’ younger brother, who…

you’ll read about who has overdosed. It’s to the point where you’re expecting it. “Teen overdosed on Heroin two months before graduation,” or “Mother leaves behind three kids after overdosing on Black Tar,” the headlines usually read. It’s devastating and it leaves you wondering why someone would risk their life like that. These headlines are becoming all too common. The distribution and use of Heroin is…

Nevada is at an all-time high level. The prevalence of heroin use in the state accounts for a major percentage of the overall problem. Most officials agree that the street drug addiction…

has had a growing problem in recent years, the presence of heroin has hit closer to home than most people think. It is very easy and cheap to obtain heroin and it has become a problem here in McHenry County. In 2009 the McHenry County’s sheriff’s office seized sixty-five grams of heroin. (Northwest Herald.) According to a study in the Northwest Herald heroin is most likely found in people driving in the Rockford and Chicago area. Heroin has become a growing problem, not just in McHenry…

Opium, black tar, Chinese molasses, All names for one of the world’s most addictive substances, something that has developed over time. Opioid use is a plight on communities in the modern era, it is having an apparent rise in popularity in rural and urban America and is affecting society as a whole. The only way forward is a treatment based system rather than punishment based. That is not to argue by any means that opioid users should be exonerated for crimes committed under the influence,…

providers do not normally pay for treatment from rehabilitation centers, which leaves tremendous amounts of debt for those seeking help. In an attempt to save the lives of those that overdose on heroin, many law enforcement and EMT’s are using a drug called Narcan. Narcan can reverse the effects of heroin overdose and save individuals that have overdosed. The problem with Narcan is that the pharmaceutical companies have price gouged the drug with no regulatory oversight. The price hike has…

Opioids: Opium, Morphine, Heroine and Codeine Opium What are the street names of the drug? Some of the common names or slang words used on the street to acquire this drug are names such as, Aunti Emma, Big O, Black Pill, Dream Gun, Dream Stick, Dreams, God’s Medicine, Gondola, Toxy, Toy, Gumma, Chandu, Buddah, Emerald City, and midnight oil. How does the drug work? Opium works by mimicking the effects of neurotransmitters located int he brain. This neurotransmitters are know as endorphin.…

People these days aren’t starting with weed when they come to their peer pressure stages. They are going straight into pills, heroin, and meth. Why? Because any of those drugs are cheaper than buying marijuana. If we as people decided to ignore these drug problems then we are left with more crime, more death, and ultimately nothing. We need to show people that there is light at…

Question 2: In economically-depressed areas, opportunities are few and often very limited. Individuals work at minimum-wage jobs with little chance to move up or improve their economic status. A general sense of hopelessness and structural oppression often pervades the communities. Illegal, recreational drugs initially offer relatively inexpensive escape from this drudgery. Over time though, drugs take a significant toll on the already economically disadvantaged. To the addict, as the need to…

Policy for “Redo” Valvuloplasties in Recurrent Bacterial Endocarditis in Relapsing Intravenous Drug Users There has been an increasing incidence of intravenous (IV) heroin usage and overdoses in Ohio over the past 15 years. With it, hospitals in the state are seeing a substantial influx of medical complications related to IV heroin abuse. Infective endocarditis (IE) is one of the most severe, potentially life-threatening, complications for IV drug abuse with an inpatient mortality of 15-20%…