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unusual facts about Heroin-assisted treatment


Heroin-assisted treatment

In 2008, the right-wing Swiss People's Party initiated a national referendum on Heroin assisted treatment.


Acetylmorphine

3-Monoacetylmorphine (3-acetylmorphine), an inactive metabolite of heroin

6-Monoacetylmorphine (6-acetylmorphine), an active metabolite of heroin

Agueci brothers

Albert and Vito Agueci, also known as the Agueci brothers, were Sicilian mafiosi who were involved with the "French Connection" in smuggling heroin from Canada into the United States during the 1950s.

Andrea Nocetti

In May 2001, David Letterman joked about the 'special talent' which Noceti, the then-reigning Miss Colombia, possessed - that she was able to "swallow 50 balloons full of heroin" for the (non-existent) talent competition in the Miss Universe 2001 pageant.

Ashleigh Aston Moore

On December 10, 2007, Moore died at the age of 26 of an accidental heroin overdose.

Black tar heroin

Tar heroin injection can also be associated with Clostridium botulinum infection .

Blue Magic

The name of a high quality brand of heroin marketed by drug lord Frank Lucas, which later inspired the film American Gangster and the song of the same name by Jay-Z.

Charles Romley Alder Wright

Heinrich Dreser, a chemist at Bayer Laboratories continued to test heroin and Bayer marketed it as an analgesic and "sedative for coughs" in 1888.

Cold turkey

The phrase's use in popular culture includes John Lennon's song "Cold Turkey", about kicking heroin, and Norman Lear's 1971 movie Cold Turkey, about a small town that gives up smoking to win $25,000,000.

Contaminated currency

In a study reported in Forensic Science International, A.J. Jenkins, at the Office of the Cuyahoga County Coroner (Cleveland, OH), the author reports the analysis of ten randomly collected one-dollar bills from five cities, and tested for cocaine, heroin, 6-acetylmorphine (also called "6-AM"), morphine, codeine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and phencyclidine (PCP).

Crime in Germany

Especially in cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen Middle Eastern clans are highly active in the trafficking of heroin as well as being involved in the bouncer-scene.

Earth-One

Green Lantern (vol. 2) #85 (1971): "Snowbirds Don't Fly" A story focusing on drug addiction, showing Green Arrow's ward Roy Harper addicted to heroin.

Fear of needles

In the TV series Miami Vice, Detective Lawrence Zito dies of a heroin overdose yet had a fear of needles.

For the Roses

"Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" — a menacing and jazzy portrait of a heroin addict — and the Beethoven-inspired "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" were also popular.

Francis Moraes

He became interested in the heroin subculture in Portland, Oregon – the number two most vibrant heroin city in the United States, at that time (according to DEA statistics).

Giorgio Ambrosoli

According to the Mafia turncoat (pentito) Francesco Marino Mannoia, Sindona laundered the proceeds of heroin trafficking for the Bontade-Spatola-Inzerillo-Gambino network.

Golden Brown

The band claimed that the song's lyrics were akin to an aural Rorschach test and that people only heard in it what they wanted to hear, although this did not prevent persistent allegations that the lyrics alluded to heroin (although in an interview with Channel 4, drummer Jet Black quipped it was a song about Marmite).

Greco Mafia clan

Although descendants of the old, established rural Mafia, the cousins Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco and Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco quickly learned to profit from the post-war economic boom and became involved in cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking.

The cousins Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco and Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco of the Ciaculli family were also protagonists in the First Mafia War between rival clans in Palermo in the early 1960s for the control of the profitable opportunities brought about by rapid urban growth and the illicit heroin trade to North America.

Gridlock'd

Entertainment Weekly gave the film "B" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "Gridlock'd doesn't have the imaginative vision of a movie like Trainspotting, yet it's more literally true to the haphazard torpor of the junkie life than anything we've seen on screen since Drugstore Cowboy... Curtis Hall has caught the bottom-feeder enervation of heroin addiction".

Heroin chic

In film, the heroin chic trend in fashion coincided with a string of movies in the mid‑1990s—such as The Basketball Diaries, Trainspotting, Kids, Permanent Midnight, and Pulp Fiction—that examined heroin use and drug culture.

Holy Molar

Holy Molar is a noise rock band from San Diego, composed of members that play or have played in The Locust, Antioch Arrow, Charles Bronson, Heroin, Cattle Decapitation, The Crimson Curse, Glass Candy, Get Hustle, Swing Kids, Das Oath, Struggle and Some Girls.

Ignacio Antinori

By the 1930s, Antinori was one of the largest heroin traffickers in the country, with close ties to French-Corsican heroin traffickers and American mafia bosses.

Jason Peter

His book, Hero of the Underground: My Journey Down To Heroin & Back was published by St. Martin's Press.

Jia Hongsheng

While rehearsing for a stageplay titled Kiss of the Spider Woman (also directed by Zhang Yang) in the fall of 1992, Jia first became exposed to marijuana and eventually became addicted, while also experimenting occasionally with heroin.

John Baker Saunders

In 2002, Mad Season vocalist Layne Staley would also die from an overdose of heroin, leaving Barrett Martin and Mike McCready as the only members of Mad Season still alive.

John M. Dunn

He established underworld connections including Joseph P. Ryan, who had sponsored him for union membership, and Meyer Lansky who had been in discussions regarding the use of the longshoremen's union to assist in the importation of heroin and cocaine into the United States.

José Antonio Remón Cantera

Recently declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency reveal that Remón might have been killed on the orders of Lucky Luciano over a dispute involving a shipment of heroin and whiskey, which Remón allegedly seized in a port in colon, from Luciano's organization.

Lynda Hull

During the next ten years she struggled with heroin addiction on and off and lived in many places including various Chinatowns following a marriage to an immigrant from Shanghai.

Mother Love Bone

Only days before Apple was slated to be released, however, frontman Andrew Wood, who had a long history with drug problems, overdosed on heroin and was left braindead.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Oxford sex gang

They gave them presents and plied them with alcohol and introduced them to crack and heroin.

Permanent Midnight

He juggles his Mr. Chompers job and regular visits to a heroin dealer, Dita (Liz Torres).

Pheung Kya-shin

According to Bertil Lintner, he established the first heroin factory in Kokang during the 1970s and continued trafficking heroin for at least 20 years.

Pudu Prison

In 1986 Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers, both Australian nationals, were executed in Pudu Prison for trafficking heroin.

Quassaick Creek

Nothing was done about this until 1984, when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service with Hudson Riverkeeper after an arrest for heroin possession the year before, heard from the organization's founder, John Cronin, about local complaints about the pollution of Quassaick Creek.

Shibu Mitra

Shibu Mitra has led a successful film career and has been instrumental in the successful launch of many stars such as Govinda, Chunky Pandey, Neetu Singh (as Heroin), Danny Dengzongpa, Kiran Kumar, Raza Murad and others.

The Abbey Road E.P.

The same recording of "Fire", however, would be later included once again on the band's next studio album Mother's Milk in tribute to Hillel Slovak, the band's original guitarist who died of a heroin overdose and plays guitar on the track.

The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack

The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, often referred to as simply The Heroin Diaries, is the debut studio album by Sixx:A.M., a side project of Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx.

The Mars Volta discography

In early 2005, the band released their second full-length album, Frances the Mute, a concept album based on the story of band associate Jeremy Michael Ward, who died of an apparent heroin overdose in 2003.

The Panic in Needle Park

The film portrays life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in "Needle Park" (the nickname of Sherman Square on New York City's Upper West Side near 72nd Street and Broadway).

The Winter of Frankie Machine

"Frankie Machine" is the name of the card-dealing, heroin-addicted protagonist in Nelson Algren's 1949 novel, The Man With the Golden Arm, a role played by Frank Sinatra in the 1955 film directed by Otto Preminger.

Traffik

Bill Paterson as Jack Lithgow, a Scottish Home Office minister in the United Kingdom government engaged in combating heroin importation from Pakistan.

Virgil Sollozzo

Sollozzo, realizing that Vito's eldest son and Corleone family underboss Sonny (James Caan) would be more receptive to the heroin trade, decides to murder Vito.

Wild Opera

The fresh start was spearheaded by the Housewives Hooked On Heroin single (a Hot Press "Single of the Fortnight"), a taster for the Wild Opera album which followed that autumn.


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