Heroin
All About Heroin!
The Schedule I drug: Heroin
Appearance?
A powder or tar-like substance that varies in color from white to dark dark brown.
Hows it used?
Heroin can be snorted, smoked, or injected depending on the purity of the substance. It is commonly injected, but is also mixed with marijuana often.
Short term effects?
Right after injection, users withh experience a large rush of euphoria. Dry mouth and heavy extremedies are common. After the rush, users go into “the nod” which is a state of extreme drowsiness, and a cloudy mind. Diahrhia and vomiting is common. The affects of heroin dissapear a few hours after injection.
Long term effects?
Chronic use may cause collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining, abscesses, cellulites, and liver disease. If the substance is impure, it may cause completely different damage. As higher doses are used over time, physical dependence and addiction develop. With physical dependence, withdrawal may occur if use is reduced or stopped. Withdrawal include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps (”cold turkey”), and leg movements.Withdrawel symptoms usually last for about a week, being particulatily bad for a few days. Withdrawel can go up to a month.
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Ndahse | Jan 27, 2010 | Reply
While addiction is one of the things that ruins the lives of many people, it is supposedly unavailable because its illegal. The harms caused by its use don’t seem to stop those bent on self (and general) destruction.
The drug can burn out the septum in the nostrils by repeated snorting. Addicts have problems with their teeth, lose weight because they ‘forget to eat’ and steal to get the next fix (or do something worse).
The government had a brilliant idea once it would help addicts get off heroin by providing them with methadone (a heroin substitute) for a short time. the substitute is as destructive as the drug because long term use causes kidney failure. But, there are methadone clinics that provide large bags of drugs to ‘patients’ on a regular, long term basis, without much follow up.
All they have to do is go to the clinic as scheduled.