Heroin is highly addictive . Users experience the intensity of a love affair and have described the memory of heroin as being so intense and so sweet, that there is no memory of the bad effects of the drug. Heroin users have the highest rate of relapse. Heroin, an opiate, is known as smack, horse, junk, dust, H, Harry, black tar, brown sugar, scag, and scat. Chasing the Dragon - smoking a mixture of MJ and heroin Desired Effects Pain control and stimulation of pleasure center in the brain.
Opiates act on the same receptors as endorphins.
Because of this compensation, more of the drug is needed to reach the desired effects. Once tissue dependence develops, if heroin is stopped, with- drawal symptoms occur. There are an estimated 500,000 to 750,000 heroin addicts in the United States.