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Heroin is obtained from the extracted morphine by chemical processing: An acetyl group is added to the morphine molecules.
This produces a molecule with the molecular formula C21H23NO5 and the chemical name diacetylmorphine: heroin.
This slight difference decides about addiction or not because otherwise you would have to be addicted every time you leave the hospital after treatment.
Morphine has level 1 in analgesic potency as a painkiller and is used as a norm.
Tilidine has a 0.15 on this scale.
Others have 1000 for example and are used to anesthetize horses.
90% of all drugs used are not due to addiction.
Many say they do it out of boredom, to relax or to be more creative and cope better with life.
Soldiers regularly used hard drugs during the war and stopped immediately when they returned home.
If you place a rat alone in a cage and give it the option to choose between drinking “heroin water” or normal water, the rat will prefer the heroine water.
Switch it up and put multiple rats in a cage. When they do activities together, play or sleep in the new cage, only 10% drink heroin water.
Physical and psychological pain is the #1 reason for addiction, drugs are only the medium.
