Question

Name one plant and addictive drug extracted from the latex. How does this drug affect the human body?

Answer 1

This drug was responsible for the growth of farmers in pre-independence India as the northern farmers were made to grow these plants by the officers of the East India company. This led to the revolts of independence in history.

Complete answer:
the basic idea which we can get from the hint given to us is that the East India Company used the lands of the Indian farmers in growing only one kind of plant which was the Papaver somniferum. The common name of this plant is opium. Opium was widely used in the world war where it was used to treat the wounded soldiers. The opium plants were used and processed chemically to use it in the medical field to reduce the levels of pain. This morphine used to work in the place of anesthesia.
As soon as someone figured out the way of producing heroin from the morphine then it became a major part of the substances which were traded illegally from one part of the world to the other part of the world. Heroin is one of the major drugs which is consumed throughout the world. The process of formation of heroin from the morphine is to scratch the immature seed with the help of hands and not crushing hard. The latex then eventually comes out of the seeds and then followed by drying the drug is obtained.
The opioid receptors present in the brain, spinal cord, intestine, and stomach plays the role of accepting the analgesic and preventing the body from pain and it temporarily generates tolerance. The heroin also goes and binds to the opioid receptors and eventually it leads to the degree of endocytosis. The cyclic AMP pathway of the receptor also gets disturbed with the regular use of drugs increasing the tolerance levels.

Note:
Opium is also a drug but it is no longer used extensively and the smugglers have developed certain ways of transforming this opium into heroin which is much widely used throughout the world.