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HEROIN USE: What is Heroin?

• Heroin is an opioid drug made from morphine • Heroine can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance “black tar heroin” How do people use Heroin?

• • It is injected, sniffed, snorted or smoked.

It is sometimes mixed with crack cocaine, a practice known as “speedballing”.

What are the effects of Heroin?

It is injected, sniffed, snorted or smoked.


• • Heroin binds to opioid receptors in the brain, especially those involved in feelings of: pain, pleasure, controlling hear rate, sleeping and breathing.
Short-term effects • Euphoria • Dry mouth • Warm flushing of skin • Heavy feeling in arms and legs • Nausea and vomiting • Severe itching • Clouded mental functioning • Back and forth between a state of consciousness and semi-consciousness Long-term effects Insomnia • • Collapsed veins for people Is heroin addictive?

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• A heroine overdose occurs when a person uses enough of the drug to produce a life- threatening reaction or death.
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• • Resulting in hypoxia when less oxygen reaches the brain.

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• Frequent users develop a tolerance, which means they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get desired effects.
• Addicts who stop abruptly withdrawal experience symptoms: Severe cravings, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, severe muscle and bone pain, cold flashes • Long-term effects continued… • Lung complications pneumonia.

including • Mental disorders and such as: antisocial depression personality disorder.

Irregular menstrual cycles for women.

Sexual dysfunction for men.

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