Martin's Griffin, Estimated yields of heroin from raw opium are between 6 percent and 10 percent. Thus, the acre of poppies found in North Carolina would yield a little more than 13 lbs. The penalties are stiff for growing poppies in the United States. He has also been charged with manufacturing and trafficking by possession. North Carolina has a mandatory minimum sentence of months, or almost 19 years, in prison for trafficking more than 28 grams about 1 ounce of heroin.
For comparison, you have to traffic more than 10, lbs. Given the United States' established law enforcement and stiff penalties for manufacturing heroin, most of the country's supply of the drug comes from Latin America, Wankel said. Countries in which the government is ineffective are the most fertile ground for large-scale poppy cultivation, he said.
As of , the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC estimated that there are more than ,00 acres , ha of land under cultivation for opium poppies worldwide, with approximately tons metric tons of heroin produced. Afghanistan is the world capital of opium; estimates peg its share of the global opium production at between 75 and 85 percent, with an estimate of nearly , acres , ha under cultivation as of Most of Afghanistan's production ends up on the black market in Russia, Asia and Europe, but smaller heroin producers in Myanmar and Laos also feed those markets.
Even in these countries, though, profits flow to the drug cartels that process and move heroin, not the people who grow the poppies. The rest flows to traffickers and warlords, along with government officials who look the other way as poppy blooms nod in the fields. The problem of heroin addiction goes beyond the drug itself.
Overprescription of legal opioid drugs — along with less-than-upstanding doctors and pharmacists who run "pill mills" that prescribe painkillers freely — has helped create widespread addiction to opioids, said Theodore Cicero, a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis who has researched opioid abuse. Though only 4 percent of people who misuse prescription pills go on to use heroin, nearly 80 percent of people who become addicted to heroin had used prescription pills first, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
People often turn to the drugs as a form of escape or an extremely dangerous do-it-yourself mental health treatment, Cicero said. As the depth of the problem has become apparent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC has tightened the guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain. This has taken some of the pill supply off the black market, Cicero said, but people who are addicted have turned to heroin instead.
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Some of the more well-known synthetic opiates include:. This list of opiates contains a few choice drugs that have been specifically designed to treat opiate addiction. Both buprenorphine and methadone produce effects that work to stabilize chemical imbalances in the brain left behind by chronic opiate addiction.
Yet another classification to add to the list of opiates are the antagonist drugs. Naltrexone and naloxone, two drugs that work as opiate addiction preventative agents, produce uncomfortable effects in the event a person relapses in recovery.
While this list of opiates is by no means exhaustive, it does cover the main categories for this group of drugs. It helps to keep in mind that regardless of whether a person uses opiates for treatment purposes or on a recreational basis, the abuse and addiction potential for opiates remains the same.
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