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].
Resources
- Nick Davies, What's wrong with the war on drugs , The Guardian, February 2001
- Nick Davies, The politics of the drug war , The Guardian, February 2001
