Narcotics
Narcotics are drugs that excite the nervous system. Most narcotics are made from the opium poppy, (Papaver Somniferum) which is found mainly in Asia. Narcotics were the first drugs used as medicines. They can relieve physical and emotional pain, and for this reason, they made very good medicines. The problem with narcotics is that they are highly addictive, and they make people develop tolerance. There are many different narcotics, the most common being heroin. Heroin effects the body in many different ways. It is usually a white powder that looks similar to powdered sugar. It can be inhaled, or dissolved and then injected into a muscle or a vein. After you take it, your pupils become small, you breathe slowly, and most users become constipated, nauseous, short of breath, dizzy, and sleepy. Addicts s
Another common narcotic is opium. It is made by drying out the gummy, dark brown sap of the opium poppy. When it is completely dried out, it looks similar to chunks of dirt. You can use the chunks in many different ways. You can crush it and smoke and smoke it, or you can sniff the crushed chunks. Morphine is ten-times the strength of opium. It can actually be removed from crude opium. You can remove small, white crystals from the opium, which are crushed and eaten to get ay that immediately after taking heroin, there is a "rush," followed by a few hours of calm, where people go to sleep, or stay in a half awake state. (During this stage, nothing seems to bother the person. collapse, from having been injected into to often. Their skin may also be covered with sores from needles. Dirty needles can often
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