Heroin

Heroin is one of the most deadly drugs out in the streets today. Maybe people use heroin once a day, or whenever they have enough money. Heroin wasn't meant to bring harm to anyone, it was just a medicine for patients in a hospital. Then the drug got to popular and made it out into the streets where many people abuse it. (Woods, 42)
In the year 1898, a scientist working at a German drug company called Bayer tried to make a pain killer twenty times stronger then morphine. He succeeded, and called this new drug 'heroin', which is a German word that means powerful. Many scientist and people w…