Heroin

opium-producing region in northeastern Myanmar, northwestern Thailand and northern Laos

combination of a stimulant with a depressant

crime scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Indochina through Turkey to France and then to North America

Drug smugglers convicted in Indonesia in 2005

6-Monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM, 6-acetylmorphine, or 6-AM) is an opioid and also one of three active metabolites of heroin (diacetylmorphine), the others being morphine and the much less active 3-monoacetylmorphine (3-MAM).

Whoonga (or wonga), nyaope and sugars are South African street names for heroin.

Park in Zürich, Switzerland

3-Monoacetylmorphine (3-MAM) or 3-acetylmorphine is a less active metabolite of heroin (diacetylmorphine), the other two being morphine and more active 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM).