What is heroin?
Heroin is a drug which is made from morphine or codeine, which are natural chemicals collected from the opium poppy. It is one of a group of drugs called opiates or narcotics. Other opiates include morphine, codeine, pethidine and methadone. Some ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Tom Bradby
Tom Bradby, a foreign correspondent for the British television network ITN, is the author of Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an ... [... more]
Random House |
Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman is an editor at The New Yorker. His short fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Zoetrope: All Story, McSweeney's, Opium Magazine, the Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn. The rise and fall of a true American ... [... more]
Random House |
Alison Weaver
Alison Weaver is copublisher of the literary journal H.O.W., the proceeds of which go to needy orphans worldwide. Her work has appeared in Small Spiral Notebook, Opium magazine, Red China, and the Fifth Street Review. [... more]
Harper Collins |
What is heroin?
Heroin is a drug which is made from morphine or codeine, which are natural chemicals collected from the opium poppy. It is one of a group of drugs called opiates or narcotics. Other opiates include morphine, codeine, pethidine and methadone. Some ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
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