What Is Opium

please help my son is 21 and has 2 beatiful kids.But he takes and smokes everything he gets his hands on his is almost as bad.The new thing is opium can anyone tell me what this is?Or how I might be able to get through to him.
Did he tell you it was opium that he was smoking? I'm guessing it's a word game he is playing on you. Nobody hardly calls it opium now in days, they call it heroin,which is the same thing.

Travis
yea he said it was opium I saw it but I guess he found out it was homemade not the real stuff. anyone can tell him anything and he believes them.I told him one day hes gonna be sorry.He will try anything anybody gives him.
opium is opium, heroin is diamorphine. Opium is the source drug (from the opium poppy) and can be smoked, heroin is a derivative of opium that can also be smoked.

There are still a lot of people who smoke pure opium.