Heroin

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Heroin is an opiate made from morphine (opiates dull pain). Morphine is extracted from the opium poppy. Like many drugs made from opium, including synthetic opioids (e.g. methadone) heroin is a very strong painkiller[1]. Ninety percent of Heroin found in the UK is supplied from Afghanistan[2].

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  1. A-Z Of Drugs, Heroin, FRANK, Accessed 13-January-2009
  2. Mark Townsend, Anushka Asthana and Denis Campbell, Heroin UK, The Guardian, 24-December-2006, Accessed 13-January-2009