Heroin addiction is also associated with a high risk of AIDS, due to sharing of needles used to inject solutions of the drug. ... Discovered by a British chemist in 1874 , diacetylmorphine is a bonding of opium's active ingredient, morphine, with a common industrial acid, acetic anhydride. ... The abuse of heroin-whether by inhalation, ingestion, or injection-is the last step in a process of many, and it is those preceding steps that we will discuss. ... They live under very primitive conditions with no electricity and no running water. ... Boiling water is used to dissolve opium gum; ...

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