Heroin - Manufacturing. Heroin is produced for the black market through opium refinement processes. Unlike drugs such as LSD, the production of which requires considerable expertise in chemistry and access to constituents which are now tightly controlled, the refinement of heroin from opium is a relatively simple process requiring only moderate technical know-how and common chemicals. First morphine is isolated from the crude opium and then reacted with acetic anhydride, a chemical also used in the product ...

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Heroin, Heroin - History, Heroin - Usage and effects, Heroin - Production and trafficking, Heroin - Manufacturing, Heroin - History, Heroin - Trafficking, Heroin - Risks of non-medical abuse of heroin, Heroin - Withdrawal, Heroin - Drug interactions, Heroin - Culture, Heroin - Books

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Heroin, Heroin - History, Heroin - Usage and effects, Heroin - Production and trafficking, Heroin - Manufacturing, Heroin - History, Heroin - Trafficking, Heroin - Risks of non-medical abuse of heroin, Heroin - Withdrawal, Heroin - Drug interactions, Heroin - Culture, Heroin - Books

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Heroin was first synthesized in 1874 by C.R. Alder Wright, a British chemist working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London. He had been experimenting with combining morphine with various acids. He boiled anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride over a stove for several hours and produced a more potent, acetylated form of morphine. We now call it diacetylmorphine. The compound was sent to F.M. Pierce of Owens College, Manchester, for analysis. He reported the following to Wright: Doses … were subcutan ...

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Crepax began to work as a graphic artist and an advertisement illustrator while still studying architecture (he degreed in 1958), producing posters as well as covers for magazines (including the Italian edition of Galaxy), books and LPs. The latter were mainly for classical music and jazz, including Gerry Mulligan, Fats Waller, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Italian Jazz Stars, but also for more popular works like 'Nel blu di ...

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Guido Crepax, Guido Crepax - Life, Guido Crepax - Comics, Guido Crepax - Works, Guido Crepax - Valentina books, Guido Crepax - Other heroines, Guido Crepax - Other works

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Alias may refer to: In culture: Alias (TV series), an American television series. Alias (comics), an American comic book. Alias (rapper), the pseudonym of a rap artist who founded and records for anticon. Alias (band), a rock and roll band from Canada. Alias (Restaurant), a restaurant on Clinton Street in New York City. The heroine ...

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Cover to Exiles #52. Art by Mizuki Sakakibara. Blink (Clarice Ferguson) is a Marvel Comics superheroine featured in various X-Men-related series. Created by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureira, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #317 (1994). Blink has made one of the most impressive transitions from throwaway character to star heroine in comic book history. A mysterious, unstable mutant with the ability to teleport, Blink died within a month of her first appearance in 1994. However, Lobdell ...

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Blink comics - Age of Apocalypse/Exiles Blink Blink comics - Ultimate Marvel Blink comics - Original Blink Blink comics - Powers and abilities

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Best Comic Book - Justice League of America; Best Adventure Hero/Heroine with own book - Green Lantern; Best Adventure Hero/Heroine not in own book - Hawkman; Best Supporting Character - Elongated Man; Best Cover - Flash #123; Best Single Issue - Flash #123, "Flash of Two Worlds", by Gardner Fox & Carmine Infantino; Best Artist - Carmine Infantino Best Story - "Flash of Two Worlds," by Gardner Fox & Carmine Infantino, from Flash #123 Best Adventure-Hero Group - The Justice League of America Hero/Heroine Most Worthy of Revival - Spectre Worst Comic Book ...

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Alley Award, Alley Award - 1961 Alley Awards, Alley Award - 1962 Alley Awards, Alley Award - 1963 Alley Awards, Alley Award - 1964 Alley Awards, Alley Award - 1965 Alley Awards, Alley Award - 1966 Alley Awards, Alley Award - 1967 Alley Awards, Alley Award - 1968 Alley Awards, Alley Award - 1969 Alley Awards

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Seminal S&S books and series include: Robert E. Howard's tales of Conan the Barbarian, mostly in Weird Tales from 1932. Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales, beginning with "The Empire of the Necromancers" (1932). C. L. Moore's Black God's Kiss (1934), which introduced the first notable S&S heroine, Jirel of Joiry; the story was later collected with others in Jirel of Joiry (1969). Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser sequence, beginning with "Two S ...

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Sword and sorcery, Sword and sorcery - Defining S&S, Sword and sorcery - Seminal S&S, Sword and sorcery - S&S Heroines

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Ovid - Existing and generally considered authentic with approximate dates of publication. (10 BC) Amores ('The Loves'), 5 books, about "Corinna", anti-marriage (revised into 3 books ca. AD 1) (5 BC) Heroides ('The Heroines') or Epistulae Heroidum ('Letters of Heroines'), 21 letters (letters 16–21 were composed around AD 4 - 8) (5 BC) Remedium Amoris ('The Cure for Love'), 1 book (5 BC) Medicamina Faciei Femineae ('Women's Facial Cosmetics' or ' ...

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Ovid, Ovid - Works, Ovid - Existing and generally considered authentic with approximate dates of publication, Ovid - Lost or generally considered spurious, Ovid - Works and artists inspired by Ovid, Ovid - Miscellaneous

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Ovid - Existing and generally considered authentic with approximate dates of publication. (10 BC) Amores ('The Loves'), 5 books, about "Corinna", anti-marriage (revised into 3 books ca. AD 1) (5 BC) Heroides ('The Heroines') or Epistulae Heroidum ('Letters of Heroines'), 21 letters (letters 16–21 were composed around AD 4 - 8) (5 BC) Remedia Amoris ('The Cure for Love'), 1 book (5 BC) Medicamina Faciei Feminae ('Women's Facial Cosmetics' or 'Th ...

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Ovid, Ovid - Works, Ovid - Existing and generally considered authentic with approximate dates of publication, Ovid - Lost or generally considered spurious, Ovid - Works and artists inspired by Ovid, Ovid - Miscellaneous

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In November 2005 Lemmy, who grew up in Wales, was invited to the Welsh Assembly as a guest speaker by Tory Welsh assembly member William Graham. He was asked to express his views on the detrimental effects of drugs. However he shocked the Assembly Members and Welsh public when he called for the legalisation of Heroin. "I have never had heroin but since I moved to London from north Wales in '67 I have mixed with junkies on a casual and almost daily basis," he said. "I also lived with a young woman who tried heroin just to see what it was like. It killed her three years later. I hate the idea even as I say it, but I ...

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Lemmy Kilmister, Lemmy Kilmister - Career, Lemmy Kilmister - Lemmy the Public Speaker, Lemmy Kilmister - Sexuality, Lemmy Kilmister - Discography, Lemmy Kilmister - Videography, Lemmy Kilmister - VHS, Lemmy Kilmister - DVD, Lemmy Kilmister - Books, Lemmy Kilmister - Video Game Link

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Sally Lockhart With unusually dark eyes for one so fair, this blonde is the heroine of the first three books, and her way with numbers allows her a successful career as a financial consultant, but sometimes her pride causes her to risk what she cannot bear to lose. Sally is in all of the books, although her appearance in The Tin Princess is only brief. Jim Taylor A loveable cockney ragamuffin, Jim is an avid theatregoer who loves stories and regularly falls in love. He is courageous and outgoing, and has an ability to se ...

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Sally Lockhart, Sally Lockhart - History, Sally Lockhart - The Books, Sally Lockhart - The Characters

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The book is written in the densest but also the most mature and insightful prose of James' final years. Contemporary critics especially appreciated the final chapter, the heartfelt and moving memorial to Minny Temple. The last paragraph of the chapter looks forward to The Wings of the Dove, whose heroine Milly Theale was clearly inspired by Minny. This was one of the last books James saw though the press before his stroke in December, 1915 and his death three months later. That biographical fact gives the book a special poignan ...

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Notes of a Son and Brother, Notes of a Son and Brother - Summary and themes, Notes of a Son and Brother - Critical evaluation, Notes of a Son and Brother - Reference, Notes of a Son and Brother - External link

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Mitchell is reported to have begun writing Gone with the Wind while bedridden and nursing a broken ankle. Her husband, John Marsh, brought home historical books from the public library to amuse her while she convalesced. Finally, he told her, "Peggy, if you want another book, why don't you write your own?" She drew upon her encyclopedic knowledge of the Civil War, and used dramatic moments from her own life, to write her epic novel, typing it out on an old Remington typewriter. She originally called her heroine "Pansy O'Hara", and Tar ...

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Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell - Early life, Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell - Lost Laysen, Margaret Mitchell - Death

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Sliver - Book version. When she makes the acquaintance of a handsome and friendly young man who lives in the same "sliver" building she does not know at first that he is the owner. While keeping a low profile himself, he turns out to know an awful lot about the other inhabitants including many of their secrets. It then turns out that he is a modern-day Peeping Tom who, unknown to everyone, has had surveillance cameras and microphones installed in every single apartment of the house, with his own place in the building serving as his headquarters. The novel is also a murder mystery, and the beautiful heroine soon be ...

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Sliver, Sliver - Synopsis, Sliver - Book version, Sliver - Film version

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After Vollmer's death, Burroughs drifted through South America for several months, looking for a drug called Yage, which could supposedly ease opiate addiction. He produced two novels during this time, Junky, exploring his heroin addiction, and Queer exploring his homosexuality. He also compiled correspondence with Allen Ginsberg about his search for and experiences with Yage as The Yage Letters. Ace Books published his first novel, Junky, in 1953 under the pen name William Lee. The Yage Letters and Queer were ...

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William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs - Life, William S. Burroughs - Career, William S. Burroughs - Literary style, William S. Burroughs - Reaction to critics and view on criticism, William S. Burroughs - Influence, William S. Burroughs - Bibliography

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Methamphetamine is an addictive drug. While withdrawal symptoms are less pronounced than those of alcohol or opiates (such as heroin), they are nonetheless physiological in nature and could include seizures, narcolepsy, and stroke. Furthermore, the mental and social consequences of quitting can be severe and extremely difficult for the addict. As with all addictions, relapse is common. In an article about his son's addiction to methamphetamine, a California writer who has also experimented with the drug put it this way: < ...

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Methamphetamine, Methamphetamine - Production, Methamphetamine - History, Methamphetamine - Current controversy, Methamphetamine - Effects, Methamphetamine - Addiction, Methamphetamine - Undesirable effects, Methamphetamine - Physical and chemical properties of Methamphetamine, Methamphetamine - Methods of use, Methamphetamine - Legality, Methamphetamine - Books

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Methamphetamine is an addictive drug. While withdrawal symptoms are less pronounced than those of alcohol or opiates (such as heroin), they are nonetheless physiological in nature and could include seizures, narcolepsy, and stroke. Furthermore, the mental and social consequences of quitting can be severe and extremely difficult for the addict. As with all addictions, relapse is common. In an article about his son's addiction to methamphetamine, a California writer who has also experimented with the drug put it this way: < ...

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Methamphetamine, Methamphetamine - Production, Methamphetamine - History, Methamphetamine - Current controversy, Methamphetamine - Effects, Methamphetamine - Addiction, Methamphetamine - Effects, Methamphetamine - Physical and chemical properties of Methamphetamine, Methamphetamine - Methods of use, Methamphetamine - Legality, Methamphetamine - Books

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At the beginning of the book, 'Alice' is a typical, insecure middle-class teenager, preoccupied with boys, diets and popularity. All this changes when she attends a party with new friends and is slipped Coca-Cola spiked with LSD. After this first unwitting experience, she seeks out drugs deliberately, and rapidly proceeds from marijuana and amphetamines to heroin and cocaine. Within a few months, she has run away from home and is living on the streets, eventually getting raped by her friends' boss in San Francisco. She even starts selling dr ...

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Go Ask Alice, Go Ask Alice - Synopsis, Go Ask Alice - Authorship, Go Ask Alice - Censorship controversies

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Tintin is on a cruise ship when he meets Dr Sarcophagus, an Egyptologist, who tries unsuccessfully to keep a paper from going overboard. Sarcophagus then realizes that the paper is not the Kih-Oskh papyrus he thought it was but a travel agency prospectus. Tintin also meets Roberto Rastapopoulos, a wealthy businessman. This is also where Tintin first meets the Thompson twins, who have found heroin in Tintin's compartment that had been planted there. They are chasing Tintin throughout the book, with often comic results. Sarcophagus is on a trip to Egypt to explore Kih-Oskh's tomb, and Tintin decides to come along, c ...

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Cigars of the Pharaoh, Cigars of the Pharaoh - Storyline, Cigars of the Pharaoh - Notes, Cigars of the Pharaoh - Dagger Inaccuracy

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