The Difference Between Opiate and Heroin Users

Strictly speaking the word opiate only refers to drugs that are made from opium.  Over the years however, it has often been used (sweepingly and inaccurately) to refer to all drugs with opium-like or morphine-like effect, more properly called opioids or synthetic drugs used as opiate substitutes. Heroin on the other hand is a semi-synthetic […]