Heroin

Heroin: A new epidemic with an old drug The first ever opioid, opium, comes from the sap of opium poppies. Cultivation and growth date back to ancient civilizations around 3400 B.C. In the early 18th century physicians used opium for a therapeutic agent that had multiple purposes, but mostly for relieving pain. It was only towards the late 18th century that some physicians began to recognize that the drug had extremely addictive qualities. Codeine and morphine are isolated forms of opium.…

The Heroin Epidemic According to Josh Katz, “drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, and deaths are rising faster than ever.” It doesn’t matter your age, gender or social status, heroin affects people of all kinds. It’s a crisis 30 years in the making. (“Chasing Heroin”) The danger from drugs is too great to ignore for us and our children. Drug addiction dates back centuries, but the crisis we are now facing started in the 1980’s when doctors loosely prescribed…

Stereotypes and Heroin Stereotypes refer to “our assumptions of what people are like” (Henslin, 2014, p. 167). How a person dresses, who they associate with, how they act, and what they do is judged on that alone versus the person inside. Data Relating to Stereotypes and Heroin When someone thinks of a drug user, they view them as someone that is poor, uneducated, from the inner-city, and/or having an upbringing that lacked in strong family ties and values (no structure). Common stereotypes…

Heroin is an extremely strong drug from the poppy plant. Some articles one could use is, “Safe heroin injection sites get OK from King County health board” by the Seattle Times, “Drug overdose deaths cause U.S. life expectancy to drop for 2nd year” by Associated Press, and “Issue Overview: Heroin Addiction” by Lauren Etter and Bloomberg. Heroin is an indubitable strong drug that affects countless people around the world. The heroin issue in the United States will affect our future because there…

children and downplaying there deaths because of their addiction. One of the most commonly used and highly addictive illegal drug on the black market today is heroin. Heroin is the narcotic derivative of the opium poppy plant that poses a threat to our society, which could be injected, sniffed, snorted, or smoked. It’s estimated that heroin addiction has increased 20 percent and worldwide production has sharply grown. The epidemic is at it’s highest peak, and we do not have time to waste. Many…

The Heroin Epidemic in Northwest Ohio Heroin use is Northwest Ohio is growing majorly and something needs to be done and it needs to be stopped. Heroin is a highly addictive drug that is becoming available in Ohio, take over the streets, creating an increase in violence, and a large increase in overdoses and death. Heroin is one of the most deadly drug of in the country. With today 's heroin use continuing to grow I believe more people should know about what heroin is and how it affects you.…

Heroin Some people carry addictions as if it were a secret. They wouldn’t look like your typical drug addict. They were clean, took care of their kids, and lived life as if it were normal. That’s what Beth’s story was like. She was was your typical mom with beautiful children and a normal life. You never would’ve known she had an addiction. Beth started using drugs at a young age. She was between the age of 16 and 17, it started out as normal teenage experimentation. But painkillers became an…

In recent years, diamorphine has killed more people than ever before. It’s street name? Heroin. Heroin is a highly euphoric, highly addictive type of drug extracted from the opium poppy plant. The opioid epidemic has reached increasingly large numbers and is very prevalent nowadays. People use opiates for many different reasons. They are considered analgesic drugs because the relieve pain. All opiates, including morphine, hydrocodone and oxycodone, require a prescription by a doctor and are used…

The article, Vietnam veterans’ rapid recovery from heroin addiction: A fluke or normal expectation, was conducted by Lee N. Robins at the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. The researcher discuss a drug addiction issue that affected the Vietnam veterans who were in deployment. The author was assigned by Dr. Jaffe in 1973-1974 to investigate the rumors about the servicemen doing different kinds of drugs. Afterwards, the author conducted an…

Introduction Heroin is a highly addictive opioid that is derived from morphine, a natural substance extracted from an opium poppy plant (“Heroin”, 2014). This drug can be administered by injection and inhalation, via snorting or smoking. This allows the substance to travel to the brain at a rapid rate, contributing to its highly addictive effects (“Heroin”, 2014). Heroin is converted back to morphine once it is in the brain, which then binds to mu-opioid receptors (MORs), stimulating the release…