Can Anyone Help Me With My Heroin Project?

Question by TW: Can anyone help me with my heroin project?
here is what i have to do in the project for heroin.
1. structural formula of the drug
2.the “class of drug” that the illegal drug belongs to (e.g. depressant, stimulant)
3. where the drug comes from? (i.e synthesized by scienctist in a laboratory, or from a plant)
4. “positive effects” of the drug on the body (i.e why do people abuse the drug?)
5. short- and long-term “negative effects” on the body

this is all i have to do ,, can anyone help me?

Best answer:

Answer by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin

http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Heroin/Heroin.html

Drugs Factfile what you really need to know
http://www.watton.org/drugsinfo/aboutheroin.shtml

http://www.heroinhelper.com/

The mismanagement of methadone
http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/bupe.html?pg=1&topic=bupe&topic_set=

Harrowing Heroin by Geoff Morton
http://navisite.collegeclub.com/servlet/channels.ChannelArticleServlet?articleid=4461&areaid=8&grid-messageboard-page=1

National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment – non-profit education website for treatment of Heroin addiction
http://www.naabt.org/

BBC Article entitled ‘When Heroin Was Legal’. References to the United Kingdom and the United States
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4647018.stm

Can poppy seeds make you test positive for heroin?
http://www.reallymadmonkey.com/index2.php?c=poppy_seeds

http://www.geopium.org/

Answer by Batgirl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin

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