Heroin
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | September 23, 2009
Jury in on heroin ban
...major political parties in Denmark recently supported the treatment. Australian researchers in the 1990s investigated heroin-assisted treatment for more than five years. In July 1997, health and police ministers voted six to three to support...
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Centre Daily Times | November 30, 2008
A glance at heroin laws around Europe
...country has been running limited trials with injection clinics in recent years. Last February Denmark approved a two-year trial of heroin prescription. Trials with heroin treatment also have been carried out in Belgium, Germany and...
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Chicago Sun-Times | October 27, 2009
Terrorism suspect a heroin smuggler with striking eyes
...with striking eyes: court records The American citizen at the center of the terrorism case announced today in Chicago was a heroin smuggler with striking eyes, according to court records and interviews. Daood Saleem Gilani, who changed his...
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Wikipedia | September 27, 2009
Heroin assisted treatment
...health interventions and delinquency. Heroin assisted treatment is fully a part of the national health system in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Additional trials are being carried out in...
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Heroin
...severe psychological dependence which develops into addiction. Internationally, heroin is controlled under Schedules I and IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. It is illegal to manufacture, possess, or sell diacetylmorphine...
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Heroin, or diacetylmorphine (INN), also known as diamorphine (BAN), is a semi-synthetic opioid drug synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-diacetyl ester of morphine (di (two)-acetyl-morphine). The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, though often adulterated thus dulling the sheen and consistency from that to a matte white powder, which however heroin freebase typically is.
As with other opioids, heroin is used as both a pain-killer and a recreational drug and has an extremely high potential for abuse. Frequent and regular administration is associated with tolerance, moderate physical dependence, and severe psychological dependence which develops into addiction.
Internationally, heroin is controlled under Schedules I and IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. It is illegal to manufacture, possess, or sell diacetylmorphine without a licence in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Iran, India, the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and Swaziland.
Under the name diamorphine, it is a legally prescribed controlled drug in the United Kingdom. It is available for prescription to long-term users in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark with counseling to deter addiction.
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