Heroin It was a sunny June morning in 1996. Jimmy Chaimberlin walked into Jonathan Melvoin’s hotel room. He found him lying unconscious in his bed and rushed to dial 911. Despite his quick reaction, when the paramedics arrived, they pronounced Melvoin dead at 4:00 a.m. on June 20, 1996. This is just one of the many fatalities that heroin causes every year and it could happen to you. In fact, heroin controls the lives of over 70,000 people in the US alone. Heroin is three times more potent than morphine, which is also derived from the opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum). Sumerians know it as Hul Gil, or the ‘flower of joy’. Today, this drug attracts people from all walks of life. T