What is 'heroin'?

What is 'heroin'?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: What is 'heroin'?; How is heroin made?; Where are heroin opium poppies grown? and more...

Heroin is a kind of concentration of what's active in the opium plant. The opium plant is very old, and has been known by humankind, but we've tried to find the active principle, the active substance in these old herbs, and that has been done in several steps. The first of them was finding out morphine was in opium, so you could sort of take that out of the old herb, and later on, heroin was found out to be a kind of reframing it chemically. But it's morphine, the chemical name of it is diacetylmorphine, and it's basically made into morphine once you put it in your body.