Opium

Addiction Opium is a drug that, when smoked, can become extremely addictive. The Chinese people suffered immensely because of this terrible drug. Opium became, at the time, the single biggest problem for China as a nation, and somewhat surprisingly, Britain played a role in this epidemic. The British East India Company grew opium in their colonies in India. The British would drink opium in bottles, kind of like medicine; they would even give it to their children to go to sleep. Consuming opium…

Drug Importation and Information Drugs have been around for a long time, people have used them in many different ways. In this paper I will be telling you about how drugs will change your life, the history of drugs, and trafficking activity that evolves around drugs. Most people today have tried drugs, just to try them, which is bad. Drugs have been becoming more popular as the years go by. Trafficking is one of the easiest ways to get drugs from country to country. Many Mexican Cartels use…

Hypnotherapy and Opium Addiction Treatment Sylvie Bridgman PNUR 4585 November 12th, 2015 Mebs Karim Hypnotherapy and Opium Addiction Treatment The focus of this paper is to understand and potentially implement findings from a study which centered on the use of hypnotherapy in treating opium addiction into my own nursing practice. I will begin by providing a summary of the article and it 's findings and then move onto how I could integrate these findings into my own practice, and whether I…

drugs in our society. Heroin is the illegal opiate drug made from the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. The plant flourishes in dry warm climates; the vast majority of the opium poppies are grown in Central Asia with Afghanistan being the largest exporter producing up to 82% of the world 's supply. Heroin, also known as Diamorphine, is one of a group of drugs called opiates; a substance derived from opium. Opium is…

game. Inspired by Victorian Era London, The City is rife with sickness, civil unrest and a thriving opium trade driven by the mysterious Gloom sickness, also called the Suicide Sickness . The only way to combat the Gloom was by using opium or drinking poppy milk. This did not cure the Gloom but seemed to help some deal with the horrible visions and feelings of despair. This lead to a moratorium on opium trade and a thriving black market that catered mostly to the wealthy1. Erin, the actual…

ingredient in wines and soda pop -- including Coca Cola.2 Prior to 1890, laws concerning opiates were strictly imposed on a local city or state-by-state basis. One of the first was in San Francisco in 1875 where it became illegal to smoke opium only in opium dens, which mainly effected the Chinese population. It did not ban the sale, import or use otherwise, and surreptitiously did not apply to white upper-class users, who preferred to use morphine intravenously. Unsurprisingly, the number of…

eating and drinking mixtures of the drug in the 1600’s. From the 1600’s until about the 1800’s the drug was, once again, popularly traded and moved from country to country. In 1796, China’s emperor was so worried about the amount of use that he banned opium. Still, in other areas of the world, medical patents were issued for the drug and easy trade continued. In 1803, Morphine is created by Friedrich Sertuerner in Germany. In the 1800’s, the War on Drugs was very real. The British and China…

The Brief History of Controlled Drugs video was a very interesting and highly detailed video. The video opened with how opium was a big seller over the counter. Opium users had their own place to interact with the drug privately. Famous Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and he explained that it helped him to write great poetry. Napoleon Bonaparte discovered cannabis from the Asia Minors. The people of Asia Minors been smoking cannabis for centuries. Bonaparte brought the cannabis back to France for…

The poem had many symbols. The most obvious being the albatross. The magnificent bird can be interpreted as a symbol of god, Coleridge’s opium addiction, and a sign of help for the crew. Other symbols in the poem could be the moon, the sun , stars, and the weather. But back to the idea about the albatross. The albatross is seen as a person, a “christian soul” by the sailors. The albatross…

opium, substance derived by collecting and drying the milky juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Opium varies in color from yellow to dark brown and has a characteristic odor and a bitter taste. Its chief active principle is the alkaloid morphine, a narcotic. Other constituents are the alkaloids codeine, papaverine, and noscapine (narcotine); heroin is synthesized from morphine. Morphine, heroin, and codeine are addicting drugs; papaverine and noscapine are not.…