Heroin
Used for
diacetylmorphine
Broader Terms
morphine
Facts
- Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug.
- Heroin is an illegal opiate drug made from the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum.
- Heroin is a white, odorless, bitter crystalline compound, C 17 H 17 NO(C 2 H 3 O 2 ) 2.
- Heroin today is so pure, users can smoke it or snort it, causing more kids under 18 to use it.
- Heroin is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates.
- Heroin is very addictive drug, and its use is a serious problem in America.