As it evaporates, the resulting smoke is inhaled through a tin foil tube. The solution is drawn up in a syringe, often using a cigarette filter to filter out impurities. It can then be injected directly into a vein, muscle, or beneath the skin. Heroin is a painkilling drug made from the opium poppy. Other opiates with a similar effect include morphine, codeine, methadone, palfium, diconal and pethadine.
Opiates are addictive or habit forming.
Heroin costs 20- 30 for half a gram. Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected. The effects are the same but each method has different risks. Smoking is safer than sniffing. It enters the body gradually, so the dose can be more easily controlled.