Battling Their Sex Addiction
Drug Addiction: Battling their sex addiction
Laguna Beach-based New Life Ministries specializes in workshops to help men with a problem that can be as damaging as drug, alcohol addiction.
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Drug Addiction: Drug addiction seminar set for Monday morning
BEDFORD — The Lawrence County Mental Health Coordinating Council will present a three hour training session “Prescription Drug Addiction in Lawrence County.” The …
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Drug Addiction: Oak Ridge church offers new drug addiction program
Faith Baptist Church in Oak Ridge is launching a chapter of “Reformers Unanimous,” a program already helping recovering addicts around the nation.
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Drug Addiction: A History of Opium and Heroin Addiction in the United States Documentary (1972)
thefilmarchive.org Opium (poppy tears, lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Opium contains up to 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes codeine and non-narcotic alkaloids such as papaverine, thebaine and noscapine. The traditional method of obtaining the latex is to scratch (“score”) the immature seed pods (fruits) by hand; the latex leaks out and dries to a sticky yellowish residue that is later scraped off the fruit. The modern method is to harvest and process mature plants by machine. “Meconium” historically referred to related, weaker preparations made from other parts of the poppy or different species of poppies. The production of opium itself has basically not changed since ancient times. However, through selective breeding of the Papaver somniferum plant, the content of the phenanthrene alkaloids morphine, codeine, and to a lesser extent thebaine, has been greatly increased. In modern times, much of the thebaine, which often serves as the raw material for the synthesis for hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and other semi-synthetic opiates, originates from extracting Papaver orientale or Papaver bracteatum. Opium for illegal use is often converted into heroin, which is less bulky, making it easier to smuggle, and which multiplies its potency to approximately twice that of morphine. Heroin can be taken by intravenous …
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