Poppy

our prescription medicine comes from plant extracts or synthesized plant compounds. The top ten most widely known plants that are used in the medical field are cannabis, cocaine, daffodils, deadly nightshade, English yew, fever tree, foxglove, opium poppy, rubbertree, and willow. (“Plants & Medicine: Top 10”, 2014). All of these plants contain an active ingredient that aid in treating a variety of health…

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…

Should pro athletes be drug tested? Many athletes are drug tested each year, If they decide not to do drugs and pass or they decide to do them and fail is all up to the athlete. Almost every athletic team or company drug tests. It is a big part in sports behind the scenes. You hear on the news about how a big time athlete is under questioning about a drug scandal they were involved in or knew about. Many people involved in drug scandals have tarnished their careers and…

Research and technology have increased awareness of addiction processes work, with advanced achievement in the discovery and the mapping of neurotransmitters and hormones which strongly affect our feelings and inclinations. These new aspects of endocrine and nervous system function are key to the increased understanding of addiction. They have major roles in perception, cognition, and expression. But more importantly, they regulate and determine moods, emotions and motivations. Here is where…

defines poverty as living on no more than 1,615 pesos ($99) a month. Therefore the rural farmers need extra income to become self sufficient, this is where drugs comes in. A farmer could earn about $900 a year from regular labor, but by growing opium poppy you could earn…

How ceiling price influence economy Price control is a big thing in our daily life, and it affects everyone. From the necessary products to the luxury product, everything can have price control. Normally, the market can control by itself, as a certain demand can match a certain supply to let the product have a biggest profit and let the consumer benefit because the consumer surplus is maximum. However, the market price may be too low or too high, the government will have to show up control…

The Consequences of Corrupt Conflict All Quiet on the Western Front, a war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, incorporates a plethora of similar and contrasting ideas to many other renowned war texts. With new machinery and combat techniques introduced for the first time during WWI, the battle Remarque writes about had far more casualties than anyone had ever anticipated. Machine guns, flamethrowers, and particularly poison gas took millions of lives on the battlefield. All of this, in turn,…

side of the border quite frequently which raises the questions, is it their war or ours? How did this all begin? What does the U.S. have to do with it? “For years, Mexico’s domestic supply of psychoactive raw materials (cannabis, peyote, opium poppies, hallucinogenic mushrooms, etc.) concerned authorities on both…

It was a cold and crisp night on the beach off the coast of Dunkirk. Harry lay in the sand in a pair of new clothes that didn’t sit quiet right on his body. It was better than his waterlogged clothes from the day prior and so he wasn’t one to complain. He could hear the sounds of men, groaning in pain or screaming in agony, fighting for space in whatever boat was available, when one would come. Everyone was dying around them. Harry tried to go somewhere else in his mind. He pictured Louis,…

Is it addictive? If so, what makes it addictive? Heroin is highly addictive, yielding 23% of all people who have tried it addicted. Heroin, like morphine, is made from poppy seeds. Morphine is an opiate used to treat moderate to severe pain under doctor’s prescription. Morphine and heroin work in similar ways, both causing releases of dopamine by connecting to opioid receptors in the brain. However, though they are similar in the way they work, Heroin has 3 times the potency of morphine,…