Heroin

Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is an opioid used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Medical grade diamorphine is used as a pure hydrochloride salt which is distinguished from black tar heroin, a variable admixture of morphine derivatives—predominantly 6-MAM (6-monoacetylmorphine), which is the result of crude acetylation during clandestine production of street heroin. Diamorphine is used medically in several countries to relieve pain, such as during childbirth or a heart attack, as well as in opioid replacement therapy. It is typically injected, usually into a vein, but it can also be smoked, snorted, …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with …

Penelope’s original legend, but that was centuries after the interactions Greene recounts; Lucretia and Mac- rina are Roman heroines


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integration of Indigenous perspectives, beginning in the 1920s, was this accepted …

involving a protagonist with a beginning, middle, and end.2 A protagonist is the main character of the story, the hero or heroine


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English

Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Half-Light offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe.

Soviet Union, brought on by too much vodka and heroin after the switch from centralized52 half-light


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 13 August 2024

For the past 20 years, the Symons Medal is presented annually by the Confederation Centre of the Arts to honour persons who have made an exceptional and outstanding contribution to …

stereotypes of “the million-acre farm,” car ferries, lobster fishers, farmers hauling potatoes, and a fictional red-haired heroine


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

boyfriend of 4 years cheats on me and gets addicted to heroin. Maybe there’s something to be said for the long balked at infantry lines of cocaine and bricks in a heroin palisade.66 Instead, you were a 1970s Mormon convert got addicted to heroin and punched a girl in her face. I ride this ghost


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 French

Les catholiques en Nouvelle-France ont transmis et modifié, voire réinventé les modes d’expression associés à la Réforme catholique à la française. Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France explore la manière dont …

Parfois pour le valoriser : c’est ainsi que sont nés les héros et les héroïnes solitaires de la colonie, dont les figures


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …

the thing inside, the thing we might call the centre, the better to catch onto spaces of hes- itancies, as Gail Scott’s heroine


NSP: New Society Publishers · 11 June 2024 English

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …

comedy writer, who in 2014 wrote The Secret Life of Sally Mottram, a beautiful and hilarious novel about the eponymous heroine


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 25 May 2024 English

Kieran has produced a masterpiece for our masterpieces.

first time I heard a doctor from Montreal say that heroin was easier on the body than alcohol,” and according according to the doctor, the problem was that heroin led to a life of crime. “We looked at how dope was mattered. There would be no reference to dope, heroin, LSD or the Beatles, especially at the first awards


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 May 2024 English

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film’s conception, production, and reception reveal …

From Legal Plaintiffs to True-Crime Heroines The real-life events on which The Children’s Hour is based date back to 1811


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