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Chasing the Dragon –An Overview of Heroin Trafficking
Heroin is in the class of illicit opioid drugs which are synthesized from morphine, a natural opiate that is extracted from poppy plants. Two forms of the drug are available; a powder, which can be either white or brown in colour or as a sticky black substance, known as tar heroin [2]. The toxicity of heroin itself was not recognised until the 18th century, with the toxic effects of the drug be...
متن کاملHeroin smoking by 'chasing the dragon': origins and history.
The history of heroin smoking and the subsequent development and spread of 'chasing the dragon' are examined. The first heroin smoking originated in Shanghai in the 1920s and involved use of porcelain bowls and bamboo tubes, thereafter spreading across much of Eastern Asia and to the United States over the next decade. 'Chasing the dragon' was a later refinement of this form of heroin smoking, ...
متن کاملChasing the dragon--neurological toxicity associated with inhalation of heroin vapour: case report.
Case A 33-year-old white man was admitted to a Toronto hospital after being found in an unresponsive state by his sister. He was a known drug abuser and had a history of heroin and cocaine use. It was known that he took his heroin not by injection but by inhalation of heated heroin vapours, a method known as " chasing the dragon. " He had last been seen well 3 days previously and had spent the ...
متن کاملChasing the dragon - characterizing cases of leukoencephalopathy associated with heroin inhalation in British Columbia
An association between leukoencephalopathy, a disease of the white matter of the brain, and smoking heroin is well recognized. This paper describes 27 cases of leukoencephalopathy identified in two cities in British Columbia, Canada 2001-2006; the largest number of geographically and temporally defined reported cases in North America.Twenty cases of leukoencephalopathy were identified in and ar...
متن کاملToxic leucoencephalopathy after 'chasing the dragon'.
Toxic leucoencephalopathy (TLE) is a rare neurological complication of heroin abuse. 'Chasing the dragon' is an inhalational mode of heroin abuse that originated in Southeast Asia. Intriguingly, no cases of TLE have been reported from this region, although the inhalational mode of heroin abuse is common. We herein report the case of a middle-aged man with a history of polysubstance abuse who pr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sociology of Health and Illness
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0141-9889,1467-9566
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10958233