The Future of Drugs: Opiates and Other Pills

Drug use and addictions are and have been one of the great social problems that have happened from the 80s until now. Throughout the 21st century, various speculations and prospects about the future of addictive behaviors, their main problems, their consequences and implications for different social contexts. These analyzes have been carried out based on biases and fallacies inherent to research on drugs and addictions carried out in the XXth century, especially taking as reference the "Heroin epidemic" of the 1980s. This paper provides a literature review of the past and present of the opiates substance use, to be able to make an estimate about the future of the drug use; the social, clinical and epidemiological effects of opiates, especially the more hidden and less obvious; Finally, a past-present-future connection proposal on consumer use, abuse and addiction of substances derivatives of opium and their implications.