Heroin

Drug use and abuse has been a rising issue in America for decades and has a major impact on the criminal justice system. Although it is unclear as to when drugs were first discovered, we can date back to at least 12,000 years ago when cannabis (inherited the name marijuana from Mexico) was cultivated. Cannabis Sativa is considered humanity’s oldest cultivated crop with a long history. These plants are believed to have emerged in Central Asia in the regions of Mongolia and southern Siberia.…

Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal substance synthesized from morphine. Morphine is a derivative of the seedpod of opium poppy plants. Heroine is classified in the opioid family in the United States, heroin is an illicit drug classified as having no medical utility; however it has been used, and in some countries is still in use for medical treatment. It 's medicinal uses include the treatment of pain from different types of trauma, chronic pain, respiratory illnesses including…

time she has used heroin because the bag was a quarter of the way empty. Sally had been using heroin for the past couple of weeks. She enjoys taking heroin because it gives her a feeling of euphoria, and then it sends her into a nice dream-like state, until eventually she becomes drowsy and falls asleep. Over the past couple of weeks, her body had developed a tolerance to the drug. Now she is physically dependent on heroin to function normally. The only reason she began doing heroin was because…

First Supposition: The War on Drugs as an Abject Failure The first supposition that I have chosen to discuss is about the War on Drugs as an abject failure. I chose this supposition because I definitely agree with this statement. I believe that the War on Drugs has failed at their efforts of trying to reduce and eliminate the use of drug and has overall failed at improving society. As a result of the War on Drugs, I believe that it increased racial profiling and the incarceration of African…

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.…

Did you know that more than 47,000 people die from overdose in the US every year? This number is 137% higher since the year 2000. There is a huge drug problem in the US and there is not much that is being done about it. This is why interventions are now being made in the EMS community. Advocates are pushing for more invasive measures for all members of public safety. Nearly half a million people have in the last 15 years due to overdose and that number is on the rise. Drugs are becoming a bigger…

included 30% of enlisted soldiers. While the remaining 70% of soldiers may not have ventured into drug use before the war, it became all to easy for them once they entered Vietnam where heroin and opium were easily accessed by the soldiers. The drugs were cheap and pure which enabled soldiers to get high with combining heroin with marijuana, or with tobacco. The issues of drugs during the Vietnam era was significant due to soldiers drug use over the course of the war, the associated drug…

In the United States there is an old and relentlessly growing problem. The distribution and usage of heroin and other opioid drugs has put the nation in a disturbing state of alarm dues to the rapid and growing death rate does to overdose of the drug. Cocaine is popularly thought to be the leading cause of drug related death, and in 1999 it was. Now there is a new statistic, heroin and opioid overdoses have become the leading cause of drug related death in the United States killing 10,574 people…

seventy-five pounds of cocaine and heroin. These busts occurred as the city was experiencing a high rate of deaths caused by an overdose. Worth about $30 million, these confiscated drugs are highly addictive and have severe consequences. One of the confiscated drugs, heroin, is classified as an opiate. This drug works by depressing neural activity as well as temporarily relieving anxiety and pain. This pleasure, however, comes alongside significant prices. Because heroin is the among the most…

Gavin Bart’s journal article Maintenance Medication for Opiate Addiction: The Foundation of Recovery provided the scientific information regarding how methadone works to reduce heroin withdraw symptoms once it is ingested into the human body. Bart’s article provided descriptive information on the typical methadone dosages used. This article was the only article to provide information dosage information and information about the possible serious side effects of lethal respiratory suppression. The…