Kurt Cobain was not addicted to opium, he was addicted to heroin. They are two different substances. Also, the song is not about Cobain's addiction. It is about opium.
@chinook Well, if you wanna get tech
nical about it-- heroin is diacetyl-morphine, which is converted in vivo to morphine.
@chinook Well, if you wanna get tech
nical about it-- heroin is diacetyl-morphine, which is converted in vivo to morphine.
Opium is the raw paste from the opium poppy, this paste contains morphine, among other alkaloids (codeine, thebaine, are 2 other major ones in the mix).
Opium is the raw paste from the opium poppy, this paste contains morphine, among other alkaloids (codeine, thebaine, are 2 other major ones in the mix).
So... technically they're the same drug by the time it makes it to your brain.
So... technically they're the same drug by the time it makes it to your brain.
Kurt Cobain was not addicted to opium, he was addicted to heroin. They are two different substances. Also, the song is not about Cobain's addiction. It is about opium.
@chinook Well, if you wanna get tech nical about it-- heroin is diacetyl-morphine, which is converted in vivo to morphine.
@chinook Well, if you wanna get tech nical about it-- heroin is diacetyl-morphine, which is converted in vivo to morphine.
Opium is the raw paste from the opium poppy, this paste contains morphine, among other alkaloids (codeine, thebaine, are 2 other major ones in the mix).
Opium is the raw paste from the opium poppy, this paste contains morphine, among other alkaloids (codeine, thebaine, are 2 other major ones in the mix).
So... technically they're the same drug by the time it makes it to your brain.
So... technically they're the same drug by the time it makes it to your brain.