Opiates

Basic Information
• FAQ-Codeine: basic codeine information
• FAQ-Opioid: opioids and derivatives (missing Heroin section) (23K).
• FAQ-Opioid-Analgesics: table of opioid pain-killers prescribed in the U.S
• poppies: how poppies are grown and opium is harvested.

History
• opium.history: various dates and facts.
• pleasures.of.opium: excerpt from 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' by Thomas de Quincey (36K)
• morphine.extraction.1906: a turn-of-the-century passage on the extraction of morphine from poppies

Heroin (processed opium)

• Heroin Shooting: images from the Pulp Fiction movie (47K)
• heroin.health: heroin health-related facts and myths
• withdrawal: heroin and methadone withdrawal described and explained.
• nyneedles: heroin use in New York (32K).
• how.to.shoot: how heroin users shoot and/or smoke.
• purify.heroin: how street heroin is cleaned.
• Junkie: William Burroughs book-cover image. (135K)

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