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This is the first 1,000 characters of 3200 words (12.8 pages) in the essay titled the effects of drugs Many different drugs have different effects on the body. This paper focuses on the effects caused by three widely used drugs opium, cocaine, and cannabis. They have many common effects between them. Some characteristics of the effects of those drugs are those of stimulants and others are those of depressants. We will describe the chemical effects of each drug on the body.Opium is a drug produced from the capsules of the opium poppy. When fresh from the plant it is a gooey light brown mass ( Opium, Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000). After it is allowed to dry out it hardens and darkens. Its chemical formula consists of 17 carbon atoms, 19 hydrogen atoms, 3 oxygen atoms, and 1 nitrogen atom (Barbara Hodgson, 1999, p 15). Opium has an extensive history. It was first used about 3400 B. C. In the early 1800’s British opium smugglers illegally smuggled the drug into China. In doing this they made enormous profits and hooked many Chinese citizens on the drug. This illegal trade caused a war, appropriately titled the ‘Opium War.’ Eventually when the Chinese began migrating out into the world they spread opium use. Opium can be smoked, eaten, drunk or injected. Most commonly it was smoked. This was in part because opium designed for smoking was the cheapest and easiest to obtain. Smokers took their habit very seriously. They usually possessed a smoker’s kit, which included a lamp to light the opium, a box to store it, one of a variety of different pi... |
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