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 CHASING THE DRAGON 

   

"TITTER YE NOT"

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I persuaded my

girlfriend to smuggle my coke through customs

by sticking it up her BUTT.

I didn't know I could buy another can in the departure lounge.

 

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An elephant, an ostrich and a crocodile stop a bloke in the street. 


The crocodile pulls out a police badge and says, "We have reason to believe you are carrying substances of an hallucinogenic nature, Sir."


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Security stopped me at the airport last night.

He said, "Do you mind if we search your luggage?"

I said, "It depends, what for?"

He said, "Drugs."

I said, "In that case, no."


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As me and the wife headed off on a

romantic holiday we talked about what kinky things we'd like to do to each other.

She said, "I've always wanted to be handcuffed." 

So I planted a kilo of coke in her suitcase.
 

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"Chasing the Dragon" is a slang phrase of Cantonese origin from

Hong Kong refers to inhaling the vapor from heated morphine,

 heroin,  oxycodone, opium, or yaba (a pill containing caffeine and

methamphetamine). The "chasing" occurs as the user gingerly keeps

the liquid moving in order to keep it from overheating and burning up

too quickly. The moving smoke is chased after with a tube through

which the user inhales. Another, more metaphorical use of the term

"chasing the dragon" refers to the elusive pursuit of the ultimate high

in the usage of some particular drug.

 

Such ingestion may pose less immediate danger to the user than

injecting heroin, due to eliminating the risk of transmission of HIV,

hepatitis, and other diseases through needle sharing, as well as the

stress that the injection puts on the veins. A small puff can be inhaled

as a method of gauging the strength of the heroin. Also, the lungs

can act to filter out additional pollutants that otherwise would pass directly into the bloodstream.

However, in any case, it is always harmful to expose the lungs to any kind of smoke, and inhaling

heroin itself may lead to toxic  leukoencephalopathy. 

 

Another metaphorical interpretation of chasing the dragon exemplifies chasing after a high

getting closer and closer to death, the metaphorical catching of the dragon, which would result in

the dragon turning on the chaser and killing him or her. Biblical chasing after the wind refers to

the senselessness of earthly pursuits when one's death looms, such as

wealth, possessions, and even family and prestige.

 

  • The song "Beware the Dog" by The Griswolds refers to chasing the dragon. The song is

      about being addicted to heroin with a former girlfriend and being dragged down by the

      experience, with phrases such as "Now you chase the dragon on your own" and "She used to

      suck the life out of me".

  • Sufjan Stevens' song No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross

      Specifically mentions "chasing the dragon".

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  • The Blur song "Beetlebum" refers to an alternative phrase for

      chasing the dragon, "chasing the beetle". Lead singer Damon

       Albarn confirmed the song was about heroin.

 

  • The phrase is used as the title of multiple films, from different

      genres, but usually involving drug addiction.

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  •  A 1996 Lifetime Network Television movie was called Chasing

      the Dragon; it starred Markie Post as a middle-class mom who becomes addicted to heroin.

  • The 1980 autobiography Chasing the Dragon:

                                                                               One Woman's Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens reprinted in        2003, but without the final "s" after "Den" in the subtitle, or else with the cover subtitle "The true story of how one woman's faith              resulted in the conversion of hundreds of drug addicts, prostitutes and hardened criminals Hong Kong's infamous Walled City" by          British Protestant missionary Jackie Pullinger with Andrew Quicke recalls how she went to Hong Kong to help drug addicts quit

      "Chasing the dragon" through Christian teaching and prayer.

  • The 2009 novel Chasing the Dragon—by English science fiction author Justina Robson, and from her Quantum Gravity series—tells how a pair of human-cyborg and faery friends seek to rebuild their lives, with those around them, following a Quantum Bomb Event of 2015.

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  • Chasing the Dragon is a Led Zeppelin bootleg recording of a concert at Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, Texas, on March the 4th,

      1975, released by the Empress Valley label.

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  • "Chasing the Dragon" is the title of various songs by Thomas Leer, rapper Ill Bill, American glam metal band L.A. Guns,  Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, Australian rock supergroup Beasts of Bourbon, Wan Kwong, Dream Evil, Machine Gun Fellatio, Legendary Newfoundland/Canadian band Thomas Trio and the Red Albino, and 90's Christian band Code of Ethics.

  • The title of Urge Overkill's album Exit the Dragon references the act of exhaling heroin smoke as well as the Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon. The front cover is a picture of (presumably exhaled) smoke. The song "The Mistake", a warning to "beware the overdose", contains the lyrics "Never gonna make it today / Until you finally exit the dragon". Ex-drummer Blackie Onassis is a known heroin addict and was fired from the band for his addiction.

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  • In the TV program Blue Mountain State, Harmon Tedesco often refers to having "chased the dragon".

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  • In the South Park episode "Guitar Queer-O", Stan and, later, his dad become addicted to a video game in which the player chases a dragon (but never catches it) while injecting "virtual heroin".

  • In the Steely Dan song "Time Out of Mind" off the 1980 album Gaucho, the chorus includes the line "tonight when I chase the dragon".

  • In 2013, GFY Press released the fiction novel Chase The Dragon by Vancouver author Chris Walter.

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  • The swing song "Brown Derby Jump" by the band Cherry Poppin' Daddies includes the line "A three-year trip on the dragon", a variation on chasing the dragon.

  • The Yeah Yeah Yeahs song "Dragon Queen" might also be about the use of heroin.

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  • Devilmans' "Elite Sessions" freestyle includes the line "Don't give up your day job fam, you're better off chasing the dragon on tin foil", which is a reference to smoking heroin.

 

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                                                                                Heroin is an opioid painkiller and the 3, 6-diacetyl ester of morphine. Heroin is                                                                                            prescribed as an analgesic, cough suppressant and as an anti diarrhoeal. It is also                                                                                    used as a recreational drug for its  euphoric effects. 

 

                                                                                Frequent and regular administration is associated with tolerance and physical                                                                                            dependence. In some countries, it is available for prescription for long-term use as a                                                                                  form of  opioid  replacement therapy alongside counselling.

 

                                                                                It was originally synthesized by C. R.  Alder Wright in 1874 by adding two acetyl                                                                                        groups to the molecule of morphine, a natural product of the  opium poppy. 

 

                                                                                Internationally, heroin is controlled under Schedules I and IV of the Single                                                                                                  Convention on Narcotic Drugs. It is generally illegal to manufacture, possess, or sell                                                                                  heroin without a license. In 2004, Afghanistan produced roughly 87% of the world                                                                                      supply of illicit  raw opium.  However, the production rate in Mexico rose six fold                                                                                        from 2007 to 2011, making Mexico the second largest opium producer in the world.

 

                                                                                Administered intravenously by injection, heroin is two to four times more potent than                                                                                  morphine and is faster in its onset of action. Illicit heroin is sometimes available in a                                                                                   matte-white powder freebase form.  Because of its lower boiling point, the freebase                                                                                  form of heroin is smokable.

 

                                                                                 Diamorphine,  almost always still called by its original trade name of heroin in non-                                                                                    medical settings, is used as a recreational drug for the intense euphoria it induces.

 

                                                                                Anthropologist Michael Agar once described heroin as "the perfect whatever drug."                                                                                    Tolerance develops quickly, and increased doses are needed in order to achieve the                                                                                  same effects.

 

                                                                                Its popularity with recreational drug users, compared to morphine, reportedly stems from its perceived different effects. In particular, users report an intense rush,  an acute transcendent state of euphoria,  which occurs while diamorphine is being metabolized into 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM) and morphine in the brain.

 

Some believe that heroin produces more euphoria than other opioids; one possible explanation is the presence of 6 monoacetyl-

morphine, a metabolite unique to heroin – although a more likely explanation is the rapidity of its onset. While other opioids of recreational use produce only morphine, heroin also leaves  6-MAM,  a psychoactive metabolite. However, this perception is not supported by the results of clinical studies comparing the physiological and subjective effects of injected heroin and morphine in individuals formerly addicted to opioids; these subjects showed no preference for one drug over the other. Equipotent injected doses had comparable action courses, with no difference in subjects' self-rated feelings of euphoria, ambition, nervousness, relaxation,            drowsiness, or sleepiness.

 

Short-term addiction studies by the same researchers demonstrated that tolerance developed at a similar rate to both heroin and                                                                                          morphine. When compared to the opioids hydromorphone, fentanyl,  oxycodone ,                                                                                      and pethidine (meperidine), former addicts showed a strong preference for heroin                                                                                      and morphine, suggesting that heroin and morphine are particularly susceptible to                                                                                    abuse and addiction. Morphine and heroin were also much more likely to produce                                                                                      euphoria and other positive subjective effects when compared to these other                                                                                              opioids. 

                                                                                 

                                                                                Some researchers have attempted to explain heroin use and the culture that                                                                                              surrounds it through the use of sociological theories. In Righteous Dopefiend,                                                                                            Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg use anomie theory to explain why people                                                                                        begin using heroin. By analyzing a community in San Francisco, they demonstrated                                                                                  that heroin use was caused in part by internal and external factors such as violent                                                                                      homes and parental neglect. This lack of emotional, social, and financial support                                                                                        causes strain and influences individuals to engage in deviant acts, including heroin                                                                                    usage. They further found that heroin users practiced "retreatism", a behaviour first                                                                                    described by  Howard Abadinsky,  in which those suffering from such strain reject                                                                                      society's goals and institutionalized means of achieving them.

 

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                                                                                Smoking heroin refers to  vaporising  it to inhale the resulting fumes, not burning it                                                                                    to inhale the resulting smoke.

                                                                                It is commonly smoked in glass

                                                                                pipes made from glass-blown

Pyrex tubes and light bulbs. It can also be smoked off aluminium foil, which is

heated underneath by a flame, and the resulting smoke is inhaled through a tube

of rolled up foil. This method is also known as "chasing the dragon" (whereas

smoking methamphetamine is known as "chasing the white dragon").

 

Like most opioids, unadulterated heroin does not cause many long-term

complications other than dependence and constipation. The average purity of

street heroin in the UK varies between 30% and 50% and heroin that has been

 seized at the border has purity levels between 40% and 60%,  this variation has

led to people suffering from overdoses as a result of the heroin missing a stage

on its journey from port to end user, as each set of hands that the drug passes

through adds further adulterants, the strength of the drug reduces, with the effect

that if steps are missed, the purity of the drug reaching the end user is higher than

they are used to. Intravenous use of heroin (and any other substance) with non-sterile needles and syringes or other related equipment may lead to:

 

  • The risk of contracting blood-borne pathogens, such as HIV and hepatitis, through the sharing of needles

  • The risk of contracting bacterial or fungal endocarditis and possibly venous sclerosis

  • Abscesses

  • Poisoning from contaminants added to "cut" or dilute heroin

  • Decreased kidney function (although it is not currently known if this is because of adulterants or infectious diseases)

 

A small percentage of heroin smokers, and occasionally IV users, may develop symptoms of  toxic leukoencephalopathy. The cause

has yet to be identified, but one speculation is that the disorder is caused by an uncommon adulterant that is only active when heated.

Symptoms include slurred speech and difficulty walking.

 

Cocaine is sometimes used in combination with heroin, and is

referred to as a  speedball  when injected or moonrocks when

smoked together. Cocaine acts as a stimulant, whereas heroin acts

as a depressant. Administration provides an intense rush of euphoria

with a high that combines both effects of the drugs, while excluding

the negative effects, such as anxiety and sedation. The effects of

cocaine wear off far more quickly than heroin, so if an overdose of

heroin is used to compensate for cocaine, the end result is fatal

respiratory depression.

 

The withdrawal syndrome from heroin (the so-called "cold turkey")

may begin within 6–24 hours of discontinuation of the drug; however, this time frame can fluctuate with the degree of tolerance as well as the amount of the last consumed dose. Symptoms may include:

                                                                                                          sweating, malaise, anxiety, depression, akathisia, priapism, extra sensitivity of the genitals in females, general feeling of heaviness, excessive yawning or sneezing, tears, rhinorrhea, sleep difficulties (insomnia), cold sweats, chills, severe muscle and boneaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, watery eyes, fever and cramp-like pains and involuntary spasms in the limbs (thought to be an origin of the term "kicking the habit").

 

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Heroin overdose is usually treated with an opioid antagonist, such as

naloxone ( Narcan, ) or naltrexone. This reverses the effects of

heroin and other opioids, and causes an immediate return of

consciousness, but may result in withdrawal symptoms. The half-life

of naloxone is shorter than most opioids, so it has to be administered

multiple times until the opioid has been metabolised by the body.

 

Depending on drug interactions and numerous other factors, death

from overdose can take anywhere from several minutes to several

hours. Death usually occurs due to a lack of oxygen resulting from

the lack of breathing caused by the opioid. Heroin overdoses can

occur because of an unexpected increase in the dose or purity, or

because of diminished opioid tolerance. However, many fatalities

reported as overdoses are probably caused by interactions with

other depressant drugs such as alcohol or  benzodiazepines,  It

It should also be noted that since heroin can cause nausea and vomiting, a significant number of deaths attributed to heroin overdose are caused by aspiration of vomit by an unconscious person. Some sources quote the median lethal dose for an average 75 kg opiate-naive individual as being between 75 and 600mg. Illicit heroin is of widely varying and unpredictable purity. This means that the user may prepare what they consider to be a moderate dose while actually taking far more than intended. Also, tolerance typically decreases after a period of abstinence. If this occurs and the user takes a dose comparable to their previous use, the user may experience drug effects that are much greater than expected, potentially resulting in an overdose. It has been speculated that an unknown portion of heroin-related deaths are the result of an overdose or allergic reaction to quinine, which may sometimes be used as a cutting agent.

 

The opium poppy was cultivated in lower Mesopotamia as long ago as 3400 BCE.

The chemical analysis of opium in the 19th century revealed that most of its

activity could be ascribed to two alkaloids,  codeine and morphine, 

 

Diamorphine was first synthesized in 1874 by   C. R. Alder Wright , an English

chemist working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He had been

experimenting with combining morphine with various acids. He boiled anhydrous

morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride for several hours and produced a more

potent, acetylated form of morphine, now called diacetylmorphine or morphine

diacetate. The compound was sent to F. M. Pierce of Owens College in

Manchester for analysis.

 

Doses ... were subcutaneously injected into young dogs and rabbits ... with the following general results ... great prostration and sleepiness speedily following the administration, the eyes being sensitive, and pupils constrict, considerable salivation being produced in dogs, and a slight tendency to vomiting in some cases, but no actual nemesis. Respiration was at first quickened, but subsequently reduced, and the heart's action was diminished and rendered irregular. Marked want of coordinating power over the muscular movements, and loss of power in the pelvis and hind limbs, together with a diminution of temperature in the rectum of about 4°.

 

Wright's invention did not lead to any further developments, and diamorphine became popular only after it was independently re-synthesized 23 years later by another chemist,  FelixHoffmann.  Hoffmann, working at Bayer pharmaceutical company in Elberfeld, Germany, was instructed by his supervisor Heinrich Dreser to acetylate morphine with the objective of producing codeine, a constituent of the opium poppy, pharmacologically similar to morphine but less potent and less addictive. Instead, the experiment produced an acetylated form of morphine one and a half to two times more potent than morphine itself. The head of Bayer's research department reputedly coined the drug's new name, "heroin." based on the German heroisch, which means "heroic, strong.' Bayer scientists were not the first to make heroin, but their scientists discovered ways to make it, and Bayer led the commercialisation of heroin.

 

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From 1898 through to 1910, diamorphine was marketed under the trademark

name Heroin as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough suppressant. In

The 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (1910), the article on morphine states,

"In the cough of phthisis minute doses of morphine are of service, but in this

particular disease, morphine is frequently better replaced by codeine or by heroin,

which checks irritable coughs without the narcotism following upon the

administration of morphine."

 

In the U.S.A., the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was passed in 1914 to control the

sale and distribution of  diacetylmorphine  and other opioids, which allowed the drug to be prescribed and sold for medical purposes. In 1924, the United States Congress banned its sale, importation, or manufacture. It is now a Schedule I substance, which makes it legal for non-medical use in signatory nations of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs treaty, including the United States.

 

 The Health Committee of the League of Nations banned diacetylmorphine in 1925,  although it took more than three years for this to be implemented. In the meantime, the first designer drugs, viz., 3, 6 diesters and 6 monoesters of morphine and acetylated analogues of closely related drugs like hydromorphone and dihydromorphine, were produced in massive quantities to fill the worldwide demand for diacetylmorphine —this continued until 1930 when the Committee banned diacetylmorphine analogues with no therapeutic advantage                                                                             over drugs already in use, the first major legislation of this type.

 

                                                                           Later, as with Aspirin, Bayer lost some of its trademark rights to heroin under the 1919                                                                               Treaty of Versailles following the German defeat in World War I.

 

                                                                    In    1895, the German drug company  Bayer  marketed diacetylmorphine as an over- the-                                                                               counter drug under the trademark name Heroin. The name was derived from the Greek                                                                             word heros because of its perceived "heroic" effects upon a user. It was developed                                                                                   chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants that did not have morphine's                                                                                 addictive side-effects. Morphine, at the time, was a popular recreational drug, and                                                                                     Bayer wished to find a similar but non-addictive substitute to market. However, contrary                                                                             to Bayer's advertising as a "non-morphine substitute," heroin would soon have one of                                                                               the highest rates of dependence among its users.

 

                                                                           In the United Kingdom, diamorphine is available by prescription, though it is a restricted                                                                             Class A drug.  According to the 50th edition of the British National Formulary,

                                                                            diamorphine hydrochloride  may be used in the treatment of acute pain, myocardial infarction, acute pulmonary oedema, and chronic pain. The treatment of chronic non-malignant pain must be supervised by a specialist. The BNF notes that all opioid analgesics cause dependence and tolerance, but that this is "no deterrent in the control of pain in terminal illness". When used in the palliative care of cancer patients, diamorphine is often injected using a syringe driver.

 

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                                                                          In the United States, diamorphine is a Schedule I drug according to the Controlled                                                                                       Substances Act of 1970, making it illegal to possess without a  DEA license, 

                                                                   

                                                                           Possession of more than 100 grams of diamorphine or a mixture containing                                                                                               diamorphine is punishable with a minimum mandatory sentence of 5 years of                                                                                             imprisonment in a federal prison.

 

                                                                           Diamorphine is produced from the acetylation of morphine derived from  natural opium 

                                                                           sources. Numerous mechanical and chemical means are used to purify the final                                                                                         product. The final products have a different appearance depending on purity and have                                                                               different names.

 

                                                                           Heroin purity has been classified into four grades. No.4 is the purest form –white

                                                                           powder (salt) to be easily dissolved and injected. No.3 is brown sugar for smoking

(base). No.1 and No.2 are unprocessed raw heroin (salt or base).

 

Traffic is heavy worldwide, with the biggest producer being Afghanistan. According to a U.N.-sponsored survey, in 2004, Afghanistan accounted for the production of 87 percent of the world's diamorphine. Afghan opium kills around 100,000 people annually. In 2003, The Independent reported:

                                           ...The cultivation of opium in Afghanistan reached its peak in 1999, when 350 square miles (910 km2) of poppies were sown ...The following year, the Taliban banned poppy cultivation, ...a move which cut production by 94 percent ...By 2001, only 30 square miles (78 km2) of land were in use for growing opium poppies. A year later, after American and British troops had removed the Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under cultivation leapt back to 285 square miles (740 km2), with Afghanistan supplanting Burma to become the world's largest opium producer once more.

 

Opium production in that country has increased rapidly since, reaching an all-time high in 2006. War in Afghanistan once again appeared as a facilitator of the trade. Some 3.3 million Afghans are involved in producing opium.

 

At present, opium poppies are mostly grown in Afghanistan, and in Southeast Asia, especially in the region known as the Golden Triangle straddling Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Yunnan province in China. There is also cultivation of opium poppies in the Sinaloa region of Mexico and in Colombia.  According to the DEA, the majority of the heroin consumed in the United States comes from Mexico (50%) and Colombia (43-45%) via Mexican criminal cartels such as the Sinaloa Cartel. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC ), Pakistan has over 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of opium poppies under cultivation, concentrated in the areas bordering Afghanistan and is the destination and transit point for 40 percent of the opiates produced in that country.

 

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                                                                           Conviction for trafficking heroin carries the death penalty in most Southeast Asian.

                                                                           some East Asian and Middle Eastern countries, among which Malaysia, Singapore,                                                                                   and Thailand are the most strict. The penalty applies even to citizens of countries where                                                                 the penalty is not in place, sometimes causing controversy when foreign visitors are                                                                                   arrested for trafficking, for example, the arrest of nine Australians in Bali, the death                                                                                     sentence given to Nola Blake in Thailand in 1987, or the hanging of an Australian                                                                                       citizen  Van Tuong Nguyen,  in Singapore.

 

                                                                           The origins of the present international illegal heroin trade can be traced back to laws                                                                               passed in many countries in the early 1900s that closely regulated the production and                                                                               sale of opium and its derivatives, including heroin. At first, heroin flowed from countries                                                                             where it was still legal into countries where it was no longer legal. By the mid-1920s,                                                                                 heroin production had been made illegal in many parts of the world. An illegal trade                                                                                   developed at that time between heroin labs in China (mostly in Shanghai and Tianjin)                                                                               and other nations. The weakness of the government in China and the conditions of civil war enabled heroin production to take root there. Chinese triad gangs eventually came to play a major role in the illicit heroin trade.  The French Connection route  started in the 1930s.

Heroin trafficking was virtually eliminated in the U.S. during

World War II was caused by temporary trade disruptions

caused by the war. Japan's war with China had cut the

normal distribution routes for heroin, and the war had

generally disrupted the movement of opium.

 

After World War II, the Mafia took advantage of the

weakness of the post-war Italian government and set up

heroin labs in Sicily. The Mafia took advantage of Sicily's

location along the historic route opium took westward into Europe and the United States.

 

Large-scale international heroin production effectively ended in China with the victory of the communists in the civil war in the late 1940s. The elimination of Chinese production happened at the same time that Sicily's role in the trade developed.

 

Although it remained legal in some countries until after World War II, health risks, addiction, and widespread recreational use led most Western countries to declare heroin a controlled substance by the latter half of the 20th century.

 

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the CIA supported anti-Communist Chinese Nationalists who settled near the Sino-Burmese

border and Hmong tribesmen in Laos. This helped the development of the Golden Triangle opium production region, which supplied about one-third of heroin consumed in the US after the 1973 American withdrawal from Vietnam. In 1999, Burma, the heartland of the Golden Triangle, was the second largest producer of heroin, after Afghanistan.

 

The Soviet-Afghan war led to increased production in the Pakistani-Afghan border regions, as U.S.-backed mujahedin militants raised money for arms from selling opium, contributing heavily to the modern Golden Crescent. By 1980,60 percent of heroin sold in the U.S. originated in Afghanistan. It increased international production of heroin at lower prices in the 1980s. The trade shifted away from Sicily in the late 1970s as various criminal organizations violently fought with each other over the trade. The fighting also led to a stepped-up government law enforcement presence in Sicily. Following the discovery at a Jordanian airport of a toner cartridge that had been modified into an improvised explosive device, the resultant increased level of airfreight scrutiny led to a major shortage (drought) of heroin from October 2010 until April 2011. This was reported in most of mainland Europe and the UK, which led to a price increase of approximately 30 percent in the cost of street heroin and an increased demand for diverted methadone. The number of addicts seeking treatment also increased significantly during this period. Other heroin droughts have been attributed to cartels restricting supply in order to force a price increase, and also to a fungus that attacked the opium crop of 2009. Many people thought that the American government had introduced pathogens into the Afghanistan atmosphere in order to destroy the opium crop and thus starve the insurgents of income.

 

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On 13 March 2012,  Haji Bagcho,  with ties to the Taliban, was convicted by a U.S. District

Court of conspiracy, distribution of heroin for importation into the United States, and narco-

terrorism. Based on heroin production statistics compiled by the United Nations Office on

Drugs and Crime, in 2006, Bagcho's activities accounted for approximately 20 percent of

the world's total production for that year.

 

The  European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction  reports that the retail price

of brown heroin varies from €14.5 per gram in Turkey to €110 per gram in Sweden, with

most European countries report typical prices of €35–40 per gram. The price of white

heroin is reported only by a few European countries and ranges between €27 and €110 per

gram.

 

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime claims in its 2008 World Drug Report that

typical US retail prices are US$172 per gram.  UK Colchester 2009 £10 per gram. 

 

Heroin is mentioned in hundreds of films. Sometimes the use or trafficking of the drug is

the central theme of the film, but many times it is almost incidental as part of a crime in a

police drama, for example.

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 MEXICO GUNS AND DOLLARS 

 

  • The 1957 film Monkey on My Back was based on the book about his

      addiction by boxer Barney Ross.

  •  A Hatfull of Rain, the 1957 film based on the 1955 play by Michael V.

      Gazzo is about an addicted Korean War veteran.

  •  The 1959 play The Connection by Jack Gelber, and the 1961 film

      adaptation of it, concerns a group of addicts, some of whom are jazz

      musicians, waiting for their dealer.

  •  The film The Panic in Needle Park, starring Al Pacino and Kitty Winn, is

      the story of a young woman who falls in love with a heroin addict in New

      York. It was one of Pacino's first roles.

  •  The film American Gangster is loosely based on the real-life drug dealer

      Frank Lucas, who sold heroin. Lucas was portrayed by Denzel 

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  • The film Gia, based on the true story of model Gia Carangi, is about her addiction to and use of heroin and how it affected her.

  • The film Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We the children of Bahnhof Zoo) is about heroin use and street culture in West Berlin in the 1970s, centering on a 13-year-old girl's decision to experiment with the drug.

  • The film Trainspotting chronicles the exploits of a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the late 1980s.

  • The film Requiem for a Dream tells the story of drug (mainly heroin) addicts who can only witness their disastrous habits spiral out of control into the darkest, ugliest and dirtiest sides of humanity.

  • In season three of the American television series 24, the show's protagonist Jack Bauer is seen battling a heroin addiction after having spent months undercover working with a drug lord family in Mexico.

  • The film The Basketball Diaries follows protagonist Jim Carrol's addiction to heroin and getting off heroin. Leonardo

      DiCaprio portrayed Carrol.

  • The film Pulp Fiction, featuring John Travolta as Vincent Vega, shows IV use of the drug, and Uma Thurman's character Mia Wallace overdoses.

  • The television series Breaking Bad features Jane Margolis, Jesse Pinkman's girlfriend / landlady, who is in rehab for heroin usage, but gets back into using it and introduces Jesse to it, but later dies due to the combination of an overdose and Walter White's refusal to save her life.

  • The film Rush (1991) starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Patric, Sam Elliott and Gregg Allman is a fictionalised depiction of a heroin-trade-based corruption scandal that wracked the Tyler, Texas, US Police Department in the late seventies; undercover detective characters played by Leigh and Patrick inadvertently become heroin addicts in the process of attempting to gather evidence against the local drug dealer played by Allman.

 

Use of heroin by jazz musicians in particular was prevalent in the mid-twentieth century, including Billie Holiday, sax legends Charlie Parker and Art Pepper, guitarist Joe Pass and piano player/singer Ray Charles; a "staggering number of jazz musicians were addicts". It was also a problem with many rock musicians, particularly from the late 1960s through the 1990s. Pete Doherty is also a self-confessed user of heroin. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's heroin addiction was well documented. Pantera frontman, Phil Anselmo, turned to heroin while touring during the 1990s to cope with his back pain.

 

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 Mexican Drug Cartel Murder 

DRUG TUNES

 

  • "The Needle and the Spoon" by Lynyrd Skynyrd off their album

      Second Helping.

  • "Heroin" and "I'm Waiting For The Man" by The Velvet Underground

  • "The Needle and the Damage Done" by Neil Young

  • "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers

  • "Beetlebum" by Blur

  • "She Talks to Angels" by The Black Crowes

  • "Heroin Girl" by Everclear

  • "She's Like Heroin" System Of A Down

  • "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • "The Needle Lies Again" from The Deadlight Sessions EP by Heaven

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  • "King Heroin" by James Brown

  • "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails

  • "Badfish" by Sublime

  • "The Needle Lies" by Queensryche

  • "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith

  • "Time to Pretend" by MGMT

  • "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran

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  • "There She Goes" by The La's

  • "Dead Flowers" by The Rolling Stones

  • The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, the debut studio album of Sixx: A.M.

  • "Mr Brownstone" by Guns N' Roses

  • "Cold Turkey" by John Lennon was about Lennon and Yoko Ono

      going cold turkey off their heroin addictions.

  • "Ashes to Ashes" Davie Bowie's 1980 single, included lines that refer

      to Major Tom as "... a junkie/strung out on heaven's high/hitting an all-

      time low."

  • Two songs on the U2 album Rattle and Hum refer to heroin use,

      "Desire" uses heroin as a metaphor for lust, with the lyrics "She's the

      candle burnin' in my room /  Yeah, I'm like the needle /  The needle and spoon"

  • "Hawkmoon 269", a song about the passionate need for one's lover, includes the lyric "Like a needle needs a vein."

  • U2 songs "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" and "Bad" also refer to heroin.

  • Songs such as "Junkhead", "Godsmack", "Dirt" "Hate to Feel", and "Angry Chair" from the album Dirt, including many others from other albums, by the grunge band Alice in Chains

  • "People Who Died" by The Jim Carroll Band. Several people in the song died of heroin-related causes.

  • "(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River", a satirical song by the Australian band TISM, lists a number of celebrities whose deaths were related to heroin use, including the song's namesake, River Phoenix.

 

 

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