"Heroin" By Humberto Fernandez (1-70)

Summary:
Book was published in 1998. There was much more heroin addiction during the 1990's than it is today- 10 years passed since millennium. Yet heroin was found way before some acid clubs were discovered and even ways to use it were far from insulin syringe. lovely, the book begins with the connection to the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Character's there were traveling to see the actual Wizard of Oz and were marooned on the poppy field. They all felt weakness and most felt asleep feeling the light-headed effect. A serious highlight for a book and film that were planned to satisfy audience of ages 12 and younger. "This is, of course, and read as such it was not the beauty of that field of red flowers that pud Oz seekers asleep, nor was it the power of the flowers' coolective fragrance. Baum's reference in the story was to opium..."(Fernandez 5). Interesting, ain't it? Mostly childish audience, so why include this? Opium was the first wide use of opium as a drug or rather say a medicine. The Sumerians from Persia were one who started to spread it. In 1271 sett of to China from Europe. He was captured in a battle but his maps helped to establish global opium trade. Portuguese very soon discovered the high price of opium on the market. People smoked it and got addicted. It was a heaven for merchants. Believe it or not they were first and most successful drug dealers in the world. They brought the product from oversees told people to give it a try for free and then could not bring enough to satisfy people's needs. It was banned in vast areas but of course it was used. Today it is illegal but of course there is always someone...History of heroin is a history of one of the worst addictions and worst habits humankind ever had. I can write 7 pages summary about first 70 pages of the book but it will not even be a fifth part of it. So here is just what I found interesting.
Quote:
"The decade before the Civil War found the United States armed with the most powerful painkiller known to man, morphine, and the technology with which to easily inject it into the body" (Fernandez 20)
Reaction:
People already knew that this painkiller with a different use of it would become simply a killer, so why did they... whatever - because it's addicting probably...