... its way from far-off growing areas to the United States. The abuse of heroin-whether by inhalation, ingestion, or injection-is the last step in a process of many, and it is those preceding steps that we will discuss. Opium poppyfields in the northern Shan State of Burma. Flowering Opium Poppy Mexican Black Tar Heroin Heroin #4, also known as Smack ... is called the piperidine ring. Figure 1 is the structure of morphine with the piperidine ring indicated by bold lines. Simple changes on the morphine molecule produces several semisynthetic derivatives. Diacetylmorphine, or heroin is made fr...

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