Heroin

Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is an opioid used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Medical grade diamorphine is used as a pure hydrochloride salt which is distinguished from black tar heroin, a variable admixture of morphine derivatives—predominantly 6-MAM (6-monoacetylmorphine), which is the result of crude acetylation during clandestine production of street heroin. Diamorphine is used medically in several countries to relieve pain, such as during childbirth or a heart attack, as well as in opioid replacement therapy. It is typically injected, usually into a vein, but it can also be smoked, snorted, …

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Roosevelt Institute · 16 April 2024 English

Focusing on corporate and public power, labor and wages, and the economics of race and gender inequality, the Roosevelt Institute unifies experts, invests in young leaders, and advances progressive policies …

in a Time Magazine interview, “Once you’re into heroin, it’s almost like a relationship with a person


Pew Research Center · 10 April 2024 English

Around nine-in-ten Americans say marijuana should be legal for medical or recreational use, according to an October 2022 Pew Research Center survey.

this policy decreases the use of other drugs like heroin, fentanyl and 6 7 8 9 cocaine, and 29% say it increases


RAND Corporation · 9 April 2024 English

The report examines how U.S. military veterans describe their endorsement of extremist groups and beliefs, their experiences in the military and transition to veteran status, and their path to their …

tell- ing my partner, “You see?” When you see a heroin overdose and the guy has his eyes rolled back


CCSA: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction · 5 April 2024 English

Outlines information and key findings on the habits and motivations of people who frequently consume cannabis. The report compiles insights from focus groups, highlighting changing trends in usage, preferred methods …

purposes f) Consume cocaine or amphetamines g) Consume heroin, methadone, oxycodone or fentanyl Never 1 1 or


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 4 April 2024 English

Public health advocates warn that the rapid growth of legal markets for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) may generate a “gateway” to marijuana and harder drug consumption, particularly among teenagers. …

harder drugs such as opioids (i.e., fentanyl, heroin, or nonmedical use of prescription painkillers) past-month ENDS use and ever use of cocaine or heroin the State Youth Risk Behavior Survey (described product use and harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin than with marijuana (Silveira et al., 2018). consumed cocaine and whether they have ever consumed heroin. We use these “ever” questionnaire items because percent of youths report having consumed cocaine and heroin, respectively. For our difference-in- differences


Amnesty International · 3 April 2024 English

This research briefing documents the horrifying surge in executions in Iran in 2023, the highest in eight years. More than half of the executions were for drug-related offences amid a …

bhang, cannabis or opium, and from 30g to 2kg for heroin, morphine, cocaine or their chemical derivatives


World Bank Group · 2 April 2024 English

Mining companies have a tremendous opportunity and untapped resource available to them in the form of the women in their communities and workforce. By recognizing the potential for strengthening the …

Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, 2014, 8. 35 Patricia Francis, “’We are Women, We are Strong:’ Celebrating the Unsung Heroines


Cato Institute · 1 April 2024 English

In a March 22 opinion column in the New York Times entitled "The DEA Needs to Stay Out of Medicine," Vanderbilt University Medical Center associate professor of anesthesiology and pain …

prescription pain pills first with more dangerous heroin and later with fentanyl. Researchers at the University


Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention · 29 March 2024 English

of the Convention on the Prevention and Artsakh Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:“[d]eliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole …

emergency. opium, the key ingredient in the drug heroin. Security forces and anti-junta groups have killed


Cato Institute · 27 March 2024 English

This week, Idaho's Republican Governor Brad Little signed HB 617 into law. The bill repeals Idaho's five- year- old law that permits harm reduction organizations to operate syringe services programs …

thousands of people have been pining to inject heroin or fentanyl that they can easily access on the


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