First synthesized from morphine in 1874, heroin was not
extensively used in medicine until the early 1900s.

Commercial production of the new pain remedy was first
started in 1898. It initially received widespread
acceptance from the medical profession, and physicians
remained unaware of its addiction potential for years.

The first comprehensive control of heroin occurred with
the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914.

Today, heroin is an illicit substance having no medical
utility in the United States. It is in Schedule I of the CSA.

Four foreign source areas produce the heroin available
in the United States: South America (Colombia), Mexico,
Southeast Asia (principally Burma), and Southwest Asia
(principally Afghanistan).

However, South America and Mexico supply most of the
illicit heroin marketed in the United States. South
American heroin is a high-purity powder primarily
distributed to metropolitan areas on the East Coast.

Heroin powder may vary in color from white to dark
brown because of impurities left from the manufacturing
process or the presence of additives.

Mexican heroin, known as "black tar," is primarily
available in the western United States. The color and
consistency of black tar heroin result from the crude
processing methods used to illicitly manufacture heroin
in Mexico.

Black tar heroin may be sticky like roofing tar or hard
like coal, and its color may vary from dark brown to
black.
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