Opium

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Opium

• By Tracy Williams

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What is Opium

• Papaver Somniferum
• Poppy Seed
• Chemical Compound
• Sugars, proteins, fats, water, meconic acid,
  plant wax, latex, gums, ammonia, sulphuric and
  lactic acid, numerious alkaloids.
• Morphine
• Codeine

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Poppy Seed to Opium

• Ripening Poppy Seed
• White, milky latex inside
• Dried brown resin
• Raw Opium

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How to take Opium

• Morphine, Codeine, Heronie(morphine acetic
  acid)
• Pill form
• Drink - Tincture of Opium
• Opium Ethyl Alcohol
• Smoked
• Placed in pipe
• Heated
• Inhale vaporized morphine
• Opium Video

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Uses of Opium

• Narcotic
• Painkiller
• Treat Diarrhea
• Feel Good Drug
• Doesnt impair sensory perception, the intellect,
  or motor co-ordination.

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Possible Side-effects

• Lightheadedness
• Dizziness
• Drowsiness
• Nausea/vomitting
• Blurred vision/decreased ability to see in dark
• Tremor
• Mood/mental changes
• Rapid heart rate
• Addiction

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History

• 4,000 BC
• Greek Physicians
• Sacred Anchor of Life, Milk of Paradise, the Hand
  of God, Destroyer of Pain
• Chronic headaches, coughs, urinary complaints,
  jaundice, and many more.
• 1st anti-depressant
• Poppy Tea served in Middle East
• Ritalin

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History (cont.)

• 1757 British East India Company Monopoly
• Opium Wars
• Opium Dens
• Restrictions on Opium
• 1875 CA Ordinance banned smoking in Opium Dens
• The Opium Exclusion Act of 1909
• Harrison Narcotics Tax Act or 1914
• Many regulations today
• Pharmaceutical use strictly controlled
• Non-pharmaceutical uses prohibited

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Street Names

• Ah-pen-yen
• Aunti
• Aunti Emmaa
• Big O
• Chinese Molasses
• Chines tobacco
• Dopium
• Dovers deck
• Dovers powder

• Dream gun
• Dream stick
• Dreams
• Easing powder
• Fi-do-nie
• Gee
• Gods medicine
• Gondola
• Goric

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Street Names (cont)

• Great tobacco
• Guma
• Hops/hop
• Joy Plant
• Midnight oil
• Mira
• O
• O.P
• Pen yan

• Pin gon
• Pin yen
• Pox
• Skee
• Toxy
• Toys
• When-shee
• Ze
• Zero

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References

• Drug Facts, Office of National Drug Control
  Policy. 6 April 2005. Street Terms
• Drugs and Drug Trade. March 13, 2007.
  ltwww.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streettermsgt.
• Pharmancy Health. 2003. Opium Drug Information.
  13 March 2007.
• ltwww.pharmacyhealth.net/d/opium-424.htmgt.
• Schaffer Libarary of Drug Policy. Effects of
  opium, morphine, and heroin on
• addicts. 13 March 2007. ltwww.druglibrary.org/sch
  affer/herion/opiates.htmgt.
• Wikeipedia.com. 12 March 2007. Opium. 13 March
  2007.
• ltwww.wikipedia.comgt.
• The Plant of Joy. 13 March 2007.
  ltwww.opiates.netgt.