heroin

Heroin is making a big comeback in the U.S. It seems to be hitting the suburbs pretty hard this time, especially among youth. While marijuana and alcohol use are seen by many as a normal "rite of passage" among teenagers, heroin use generally isn't. Many suburban parents see heroin as mostly an...

Looks like the earth might not be the center of the universe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210

Past and current behaviour of pharmaceutical companies indicates they are often more interested in making money than behaving in an ethical and responsible way. If illicit drugs were legalised and as easily available as alcohol and tobacco are today, what would be the impact on the development...

I have been thinking about psychoactive plant substances like marijuana (from the cannabis plant), opium and its derivatives morphine, heroine and codeine (from the opium poppy). We know what these substances do to the human system, but how did they evolve? What advantage, if any, do these...

After Obama brought up a muffled reference to the drug trade emanating from Afghanistan (now 90% of worlds supply of smack and responsible for 90 to 99% of the country's gross national product) and primary source of income for Taliban and AlAqeda.... General David McKiernan must have been...

In this thread http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3030951#post3030951 There is a discussion of the Myanmar/Burma situation and repressing political dissent, during the thread I made the following post...

As I understand it, the U.S. has 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, NATO has another 30,000, and the Afghan army must have at least 30,000 by now. On top of that, they have total air superiority and satellite coverage... yet, 90% of the heroin comes from there. If they can't at least bring that...

Just a guess at the Daily Mail's headline for this news.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5230006.stm Sounds quite sensible really - but i'm looking forward to the tabloid take on this. Any better headline suggestions?

This is a first for anyone in the top inner circle. Up to now neither the President, Secretary of State nor Rumsfield have acknowledged this problem in public. More than affect the democratic process, the funds from the sale of heroin go to fund terrorist attacks against civilians, the fledgling...

Hello, My question for the board is this: Supposing (1) heroin is legalised, and (2) I calculate that I have enough savings to keep myself supplied until my natural death, is there then any good reason not to become a heroin addict? Does it make you smell, or something? Cpl Ferro

Marketing gone wrong:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/02/08/924568-cp.html I was reading the justifications for this program, and it raised a thought. My question, therefore, is "Why not institutionalize the addicts?" A lot of the justification has to do with safety and reducing crime, and the issue of how...

I know quite a few heroin addicts as a result of running a pharmacy. I have learned their ways so well that I can now tell them from 50 meters away, from the way they walk and their facial expression; I'm very rarely wrong. I have also talked with many of them. And I used to know a few who are...

"You can't buy any better heroin in the world than you can buy in New Jersey" Sez the DEA. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1102833339277730.xml That settles it. I'm moving to New Jersey.

As Afghan heroin is beginning to hit U.S. shores, it won't be long before we see similar reports here. Thanks W. for your no-go, hands-off Afghan heroin policies. It is absolutely amazing that we have Homeland Security asking old ladies at airports to take off their shoes but this President...

I've used a fair range of illegal drugs. Didn't get into heroin because I really didn't want to associate with the heroin dealers, who, to me, were a different class of crim to your usual dope dealer. I had a friend who used it occasionally, and he didn't turn into a ranting, staring wizened...