Heroin‚ also known as diamorphine and other names‚ is an opiate usually used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Heroin can be injected‚ snorted‚ and smoked. Some people mix cocaine with heroin and call it a speed ball. Heroin is an opioid drug made from morphine‚ a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant. Heroin was first made in 1898 by the bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany first used as a treatment for tuberculosis and a remedy for morphine
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What is heroin? Heroin is the most addictive drug there is. This is true because it only takes one time to get addicted to heroin. Heroin is normally a brownish powder. It is mixed with many things‚but if it is straight heroin‚it will be white and have a very bitter taste. Heroin is an opioid painkiller. It can also be used as a cough suppressant. How it is made Heroin is processed from morphine‚ which is a natural substance removed from the seed pod of specific varieties of poppy plants
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and even powerful military vessels sail out into calm‚ clear weather……and then just vanish….without a trace (Lexington 1). This is the dreaded Bermuda triangle also referred to as the devil’s triangle (Bermuda Triangle 1). It is located off the southeastern coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean. The three points that create the triangle are Miami Florida‚ Bermuda‚ and San Juan Puerto Rico. It covers roughly 500‚000 square miles (Obringer 1). Here‚ off the coast of Florida‚ is a vacation
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Trade Triangle Trade Route - the main route for trade Introduction This informational essay talks about Background Information‚ New England Colonies Trade‚ Southern Colonies Trade and Middle Colonies Trade. Background Information Before you learn all about the three colonies trade‚ you are going to need to know some background information first. The definition of triangle trade according to Wikipedia is: “Triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions
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The Golden Ratio By : Kaavya.K In mathematics and the arts‚ two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant‚ approximately 1.6180339887. Other names frequently used for the golden ratio are the golden section and golden mean. Other terms encountered include extreme and mean ratio‚ medial section‚ divine
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Over many years the abuse of Heroin has been known‚ but now the epidemic is out of control and many are dying daily. Heroin is a substance that is synthesized from morphine‚ and extracted from the poppy seed plant. The opium poppy has been refined for more than five thousand years for a variety of medicinal uses. When heroin was first created it was used as a cough syrup and pain killer. At first people believe it would help with morphine and opium addiction but then doctors realized people were
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Substance Abuse - Heroin 03/27/2011 Substance abuse is a problem that is an epidemic all over the world. America is not the only country suffering from heroin addiction. The misuse and abuse of drugs occurs at all age levels‚ in almost all social settings and at workplace occurrence in all occupation and industries. It has significant negative impacts that affect every community though out the world. Drugs affect all of us in one way
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epidemiological triangle focuses on the three primary factors that directly effect the “what”‚ “who”‚ and “where” of diseases (Ferng‚ 2011). One of these factors is the disease agent and its characteristics‚ the host and the host’s vulnerability to the disease‚ and the environment that surrounds the agent and host (Ferng‚ 2011). It is crucial to examine these components and how they interrelate to reach a better understanding of the disease. In one corner of the epidemiology triangle for obesity there’s
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Rhetorical Triangle Discussion Board PSP111-1001B-03 Presentation Essentials Rhetorical Triangle is the active correlation between the speaker‚ the audience‚ and the situation of a presentation or speech. The rhetorical triangle determines the success of a presentation or speech. When a speech executes the three primary elements of the speaker‚ the audience‚ and the situation in balance the Rhetorical Triangle is effectively complete. It is important for a speaker to give equal relevance to
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upon a body‚ in equilibrium‚ may be represented by a triangle of forces. (Vector addition) INTRODUCTION With this experiment we will show that a body in a state of equilibrium‚ with three forces acting in a singular plane. The following conditions must be met: * Moment of all three forces must pass through the same point. * Magnitudes of the forces can be represented by the sides of a triangle‚ each as a vector with the side of the triangle being the magnitude of the force and the angle being
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