Word: heroine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble with students or anyone else taking opium, morphine or heroin to relieve pain is that their effect becomes less with continued use and they are habit forming, he explained...
...morphine substitute which the experimenters would certify as non-habit-forming. On the other hand, the work enabled Mr. Fuller to tell the world from Geneva last week that one substitute, desomorphine, for which much had been claimed, has "habit-forming properties even in excess of morphine or heroin...
...past five years. Long ago, Mr. Baroni ran a restaurant in Reno, Nev. With the profits, he bought racehorses which he, himself, trained and ran at minor tracks. He first attracted national attention in 1933 when in Chicago he was arrested, indicted but never tried for giving horses heroin. By that time, track followers had noticed one remarkable thing about Mr. Baroni: His stable was being run at a consistent profit. However, any suspicion that this was disproportionately due to Mr. Baroni's sophistication in matters only indirectly connected with horseflesh was allayed by something...
...Washington, narcotics agents raided the headquarters of a New York-Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago dope ring, seized $20,000 worth of heroin, arrested...
...roses from which perfume manufacturers extract essential oil, Bulgaria's best known product. Not so well known is another Bulgarian industry. League investigators of the international narcotic trade have often pointed an accusing finger at Bulgaria as one of the most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller of the U. S. revealed that in 1933 Bulgaria imported enough acetic acid anhydride to manufacture 13,000 Ib. of heroin, four times the legitimate needs of the entire world. Col. Charles...