#7: Heroin

Opium is one of human-kind's oldest drugs. We have been eating, smoking, snorting and injecting it for at least 6,000 years, and fighting wars over it for more than 500 years. Its been cultivated, distilled, processed, and synthesized ever since we realized it was a good buzz, and now there are so many different types of opioids that most of us have no idea what we are taking, or how strong it is compared to other types. This episode details the history, production and use of op...