When most people think about heroin abusers, they may picture uneducated individuals living in extreme poverty and committing criminal acts. It’s true that fifty years ago a typical heroin addict was an impoverished teenaged boy living in the inner city … Continue reading
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Heroin is a very potent and addictive drug substance in the opiate family of drugs. Like its predecessors morphine and opium, heroin moves quickly into the brain after ingestion, where it works to block opioid receptors that communicate pain and … Continue reading
Northern Kentucky has been hit hard by drug abuse in recent years—methamphetamine has long been ensconced in the region (including in the neighboring states of Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, Arkansas and Indiana) with over a thousand meth-related incidents occurring in … Continue reading
Heroin use is becoming more and more popular throughout the country, growing in prevalence in areas as diverse as downtown New York, rural Oklahoma, the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains and the desert regions of the Southwest. Part of this … Continue reading
Heroin in the United States is becoming more and more prevalent, especially reaching epidemic proportions in the Northeast, the western desert zones and the Pacific Northwest. There are also pockets of higher abuse levels in portions of the Appalachian Mountains … Continue reading
Opium, the grandfather to heroin, has been around for thousands of years. Ancient Mesopotamians used to grow opium poppies, and their use continued on spreading from the Egyptians and Persians north to Europe and east as far as China. In … Continue reading