References 16 Introduction Opioids are a class of medication that relieve pain by manipulating the intensity of the pain signals sent to the brain. These drugs are originally derived from the opium poppy‚ Papaver Somniferum. Morphine falls under this class of medication‚ as it is derived from the opium poppy seed and acts directly on the
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unproductive and lazy because of the drug opium in 1729. The British started bringing in opium around 1729 and got very popular within the next few years which started causing problems for the Chinese people. China didn’t want it‚ tried to stop it and a war started. The relationship between china and the british in the nineteenth century wasn’t very good because the British were forcing opium into China causing issues for there country because the opium was very harmful to the chinese people and
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The word “rickshaw” is an abbreviation of the Japanese word “Jinrikisha” or “Rikisha”.[1] In the 1880s‚ the rickshaw began to displace gharries (horse-drawn carriages) as the main mode of cheap transport in Singapore.[2] A comprehensive study of the “rickshaw” in 1921 Singapore necessarily examines rickshaws as a mode of transport‚ as well as an avenue to gain insights into the lives of rickshaw pullers. In the latter sense‚ rickshaws serve to bring the lives of the common people into sharper contrast
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with themselves and the effeminate other‚ Vietnam. In The Quiet American‚ the French‚ British and Americans viewed Vietnam as a feminized entity. It is non-threatening and an outlet for the carnal pleasures and delights of all things exotic: women‚ opium and trade. As such with the context of this paper‚ Pyle and Fowler’s battle over Phuong is a clash of male dominance. Phuong is the most interesting character in Greene’s novel. She is depicted as a voiceless beauty without any power or opinions of
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gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the Government of Austria towards the cost of the World Drug Report 2012. iii PREFACE Global opium production amounted to 7‚000 tons in 2011. That is more than a fifth less than the peak of 2007 but an increase from the low level of 2010‚ the year in which a plant disease destroyed almost half of the opium harvest in Afghanistan‚ which continues to be the world’s biggest producer. The total area under coca bush cultivation in the
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plants. The opium‚ which is the milky‚ sap-like substance is refned to make morphine‚ then further refined not different forms of herion. It is mostly injected and it creates additional risks for the user becuase of the danger of AIDS or other infections on top of the pain of addiction. Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer harmaceutical comany of Germany and was marketed as a treatment for TB and remedy for morphine addiction. For this‚ it became a bigger problem than opium addiction
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and the Pains of Sleep in 1816. Kubla Khan is one of the most important poem of Coleridge and‚ according to the preface of the book‚ he wrote it during the time that he passed in a farm house between Porlock and Linton in England. Because of the opium that he had taken - prescribed to him to cure dysentery‚ Coleridge felt asleep when he was reading a story about Kubla Khan‚ which led to his dream and his poem. Coleridge said that‚ while he was asleep‚ “images rose up before him as things‚ with a
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Psychosis The best opium of the masses might be opium itself. Aldous Huxley’s surreal dystopian novel Brave New World explores the idea that a narcotic can control and pacify massive amounts of people with little repercussions. The substance‚ known as soma‚ produces a calming sensation that the inhabitants of the Brave New World call “Euphoric‚ narcotic‚ pleasantly hallicinant.” (54) The controllers of this world dispense the drug to anyone that uses the narcotic‚ which is practically the entire
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data of experience and‚ in this way‚ to create. All this is well expressed in Kubla Khan. Its genesis‚ if what is written in its preface is true‚ is in itself weird‚ as when he wrote it he was reading a passage about Kublai Khan under the effects of opium‚ prescribed to him as a medical treatment. But even if this weren’t true‚ this preface still remains important since it can be read as a manifesto on the working of the poetic mind‚ and gives us the idea of the suspension of disbelief for the moment
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From the time of the Spain era‚ drug control laws prohibited the use of opium by the native Filipinos and other people except the Chinese because Chinese residents in the Philippines particularly in manila started smoking opium in 1780. In 1844‚ the Spanish colonial government laid down an opium monopoly‚ which entitled the importation but the Spanish government and its sale to Chinese users. At this period‚ opium smoking became widespread among Chinese as its use was forbidden to Indians‚ mestizos
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