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Show Notes:

The history of heroin shows just another example of the pharmaceutical industry taking advantage of the unsuspecting customer. Heroin has claimed the lives of millions over the years. The opioid crisis is not slowing down anytime soon.

References:

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/heroin-treatment/slang-names

https://blackbearrehab.com/substance-abuse/heroin-abuse/nicknames-and-street-names-for-heroin/

https://vertavahealthmassachusetts.com/blog/common-opioid-street-slang-nicknames/

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1953-01-01_2_page004.html

https://drugabuse.com/drugs/heroin/history-statistics/

https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/from-cough-medicine-to-deadly-addiction-a-century/

https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/from-cough-medicine-to-deadly-addiction-a-century/

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/drugs/history-of-heroin/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/heroin-addictions-fraught-history/284001/

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/harrison-narcotics-tax-act/m03pg8?hl=en

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/drug-laws-and-drug-law-enforcement-review-and-evaluation-based-111