Category: Heroin Abuse

Biochemical Aspects of Heroin Abuse

TweetBiochemical Aspects Of Addiction L. Ron Hubbard discovered that when a person uses drugs over a period of time, the body becomes unable to completely eliminate them all. Drugs are broken down in the liver. These metabolites, (the substances the body converts the drugs into) although removed rapidly from the blood stream, become trapped in [...]

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History of Heroin, Methadone, & Heroin Addiction Treatment

TweetHistory of Heroin Heroin, which is a very popular drug of choice in the American drug culture today, is not a new drug that just showed up in the late 1960’s nor are its negative effects unique to modern times. Heroin is an opium derivative and, as with any of the opium derivatives, there is [...]

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