Black tar heroin

The average person doesn 't know or understand the reality of addiction. Heroin is a drug that will destroy families and friends. Once the user injects the drug they get a rush, this is the rush that keeps users going back for more. Not long after starting to use most addicts quickly spiral out of control. Drugs like weed, crack, cocaine, etc. often cause mental withdraws, but with heroin it becomes more than mental. After the body becomes reliant on the drug, without daily use the body starts…

Castellon, V. Thought Paper #2 Heroin is an opioid pain killer. It is made from morphine, a substance that is found in the seedpod of a poppy plant. Heroin can be mixed with water and injected with a needle, smoked, or snorted up the nose. All of these ways of taking heroin send it to the brain very quickly. This is what makes it very addictive. This drug has caused many overdoses but according to U.S. city mayor we have found the solution. I believe that opening a heroin clinic would be a…

Sonny’s Blues Connection to Home Health Nursing James Baldwin’s, “Sonny’s Blues,” is a story about two individuals struggling on both sides of a drug addiction. Sonny is a jazz musician from Harlem, New York who gets addicted to Heroin, and is arrested for selling drugs. The other character, the one that is affected by Sonny’s addiction, is the narrator, also known as Sonny’s brother. Even though drugs are a central part of the story, it’s not only about Sonny’s struggle to reconnect with his…

Government Endorsed Artificial Happiness Introduction: Throughout the book, “A Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley predicts a world with citizens that are addicted to a government-endorsed drug. In today’s society, we are also dealing with a similar problem. The use of social media has become all to prevalent in today’s society. Analytical Portion: Due to the government-issued drug of soma, the World State’s citizens are addicted, unfeeling, and unable to cope. Starting when the citizens of the…

When a person is struggling with their mental instability, society is often quick to just deem them as “mad” but then refuse to look beneath the surface of their problems. For people who struggle with mental instability, pinpointing the root cause and finding the proper “cure” is integral, so that the instability will not worsen and branch out into other problems. In the book Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, the character Emo suffers from the prolonged effects of war-induced trauma, which causes…

In the book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, some of the characters participate in taking soma. Soma is a drug that makes the characters feel a different way; they feel happy and distracted from the society. Mustapha describes soma as “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant” (Huxley 53). The characters in the story are pressured into taking soma by the authorities because it distracts them from the fact that there is something wrong with the citizens. The citizens lack freedom, they were…

Human being and his tendencies for alcohol and drug consumption is a matter of curiosity since the beginning of civilizations. The cultural and societal aspects of intoxication are worth analysis rather than the individualistic approach to it. As, there arises a question whether, the craving for intoxication is a natural instinct within man or if it is incorporated in him by an external agency. Every civilization and every religion has their own approach to intoxication and puts forth a…

B. Possible Defences Intoxication Defence of intoxication refers to the defendant being “under the influence of alcohol, drugs or other substances that they did not know what they were doing or the full extent of their actions”. Despite the fact that the drugs were self induced, it was taken under the pressure of the co-offenders. At the time of the incident, Akon was under the influence of ice as an inexperienced user. His defence argued that there was no way that he, as a second time user…

Introduction Lorazepam is a kind of benzodiazepine in terms of pharmacological class, It is also an anxiolytic drug in terms of the therapeutic class.It is mainly used to treat anxiety and insomnia for adults.Since anxiety and isomnia is getting more common nowadays, It is nesseary to be introduced to more people.In this article, you will know more about the clinical trial ,the pharmacology ,and the pharmacokinetics of Lorazepam. Disscussion of a clinical trial for Lorazepam Lorazepam has a…

5 Ways Addicts Play the Victim Role By the time an addictive process has become truly problematic, a person has come up with a bunch of more or less sophisticated defense mechanisms to continue with the harmful behavior. One of these defense mechanisms is playing the victim role. Knowingly playing the victim role helps an addict to control and influence the thoughts and feelings of others, most commonly parents and spouses. An addict hardly copes with his actions — he’s ashamed or afraid to…