This post is my tribute to all fallen into heroin addiction. The evil is gone and it's just you now. Rest in piece.
Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer Pharmaceuticals and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction. Yet another skeleton in their closet.
A vicious circle
During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States. The “solution” was to provide opium addicts with a less potent and supposedly “non-addictive” substitute—morphine. Morphine addiction soon became a bigger problem than opium addiction.
As with opium, the morphine problem was solved by yet another “non-addictive” substitute—heroin, which proved to be even more addictive than morphine. With the heroin problem came yet another “non-addictive” substitute—the drug now known as #methadone. First developed in 1937 by German scientists searching for a surgical painkiller, it was exported to the US and given the trade name “Dolophine” in 1947. Renamed methadone, the drug was soon being widely used as a treatment for heroin addiction. Unfortunately, it proved to be even more addictive than heroin. Methadone is still in use today
By the late 1990s, the mortality rate of heroin addicts was estimated to be as high as twenty times greater than the rest of the population.
What will they do next?
Nope, this is not the question you should ask.
Ask instead what can I do to prepare and protect myself for what they will do? Evil cannot defeat the other evil, but love can. Love always defeat evil