By Carmen Ferreiro
* Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
* Number Of Pages: 104
* Publication Date: 2003-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0791072622
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780791072622
* Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Heroin is a highly addictive drug, and its abuse has repercussions that extend far beyond the individual users. The health and social consequences of drug abuse HIV/AIDS, violence, tuberculosis, fetal effects, crime, and disruptions in family, workplace, and educational environments have a devastating impact on society and cost billions of dollars each year. This is how Alan I. Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) describes heroin. Yet heroin that is, pure heroin is just a semi synthetic alkaloid (organic substance from plants), a diacetyl derivative of morphine, a white powder as harmless looking as powdered sugar. Street heroin, however, is an entirely different matter, and it is this form of heroin that Leshner is speaking about.
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