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Heroin in the Suburbs
Illegal drugs are chemical or other substances that are ingested to create a mind-altering affect. People use illegal drug for a variety of reasons. There are many different types of drugs out there like hallucinogens, cannabis, narcotics, and depressants (just to name a few). Although there are a number of illegal drugs out there, a narcotic called heroin is one of the more serious problems in American suburbs.
Heroin was thought to be safe and non-addictive when it was first introduced in 1898 as a cough medicine. It was then later used to save people from morphine and opium addictions (Silverstein 54). Eventually, people started to realize that heroin was twice as addictive as the most powerful morphine. Just a couple years later, laws were passes against the highly addictive heroin, which made it an illegal drug.
Heroin is considered a narcotic because it is a drug that contains opium. It is produced from an Asian poppy plant and usually appears as a......

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