““Producers process heroin and sugar the same way. Workers extract opium from the poppy plant, and then process the opium into heroin and refine it into morphine. With sugar, juice is extracted from the cane or beet, refined into molasses, and then into brown sugar, and then into white crystals (C12H22O). Both sugar and heroin are biologically unfamiliar to the body, which cannot naturally metabolize them.300””