Heroin
Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant. Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. Street names for heroin include "smack," "H," "
skag," and "junk." Other names may refer to types of heroin produced in a specific geographical area, such as "
Mexican black tar." Heroin abuse is associated with serious health conditions, including fatal overdose, spontaneous abortion, collapsed veins, and, particularly in users who inject the drug, infectious diseases, including
HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours. After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria ("rush") accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following this initial euphoria, the user goes "
on the nod," an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes
clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Long-term effects of heroin appear after repeated use for some period of time. Chronic users may develop collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, cellulitis, and liver disease. Pulmonary complications, including various types of pneumonia, may result from the poor
health condition of the abuser, as well as from heroin’s depressing effects on
respiration.Heroin abuse during pregnancy and its many associated environmental factors (e.g., lack of
prenatal care) have been associated with adverse consequences including low
birth weight, an important
risk factor for later developmental delay. In addition to the effects of the drug itself, street heroin may have additives that do not readily dissolve and result in clogging the blood vessels that lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys, or brain. This can cause infection or even death of small patches of cells in vital organs. The Drug Abuse Warning Network* reports that eight percent of drug-related emergency department (ED) visits in the third and fourth quarters of 2003 involved heroin abuse. Unspecified opiates—which could include heroin—were involved in an additional
4 percent of drug-related visits. With regular heroin use, tolerance develops. This means the abuser must use more heroin to achieve the same intensity of effect. As higher doses are used over time, physical
dependence and addiction develop. With physical dependence, the body has adapted to the presence of the drug and withdrawal symptoms may occur if use is reduced or stopped. Withdrawal, which in regular abusers may occur as early as a few hours after the last administration, produces drug craving,
restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting, cold flashes with
goose bumps ("
cold turkey"), kicking movements ("kicking the habit"), and other symptoms. Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 48 and 72 hours after the last dose and
subside after about a week. Sudden withdrawal by heavily dependent users who are in poor health is occasionally fatal, although
heroin withdrawal is considered less dangerous than alcohol or barbiturate withdrawal. There is a broad range of treatment options for heroin addiction, including medications as well as behavioral therapies. Science has taught us that when medication treatment is integrated with other supportive services, patients are often able to stop heroin (or other opiate) use and return to more stable and productive lives.Pure heroin is a white powder that tastes really bad, but you probably won't see it very often on the street, at school or anywhere. Most heroin sold on the street to teens and adults varies in color from white to dark brown, but most will look like light brown sugar. The color can tell you what country the drug came from.
Speedballing is when heroin and cocaine are injected into the body together. This is a deadly combination as it enters the body very quickly when injected into a vein. Speedballing will kill you. It is also used by "
skin-popping" -- injecting the drug just under the skin and not into a vein. Short term heroin side effects include but are not limited to: Rush, Depressed respiration,
Clouded mental functioning, Nausea and vomiting, Suppression of pain,Spontaneous abortion.Long term heroin side effects include but are not limited to:Addiction, Abscesses, Collapsed veins, Bacterial infections, Infection of heart lining and valves, Arthritis and other rheumatologic problems, Infectious diseases, for example, HIV/AIDS and
hepatitis B and C.
Heroin
by MousseAuChocolat on Feb 10, 2021 13:20:45
A drug that kills people. Also known as Diacetylmorphine, Dragon, Dope, Heron, Herone, Hero, Hera, H, Big H, White, China White, White Nurse, White Lady, White Horse, White Girl, White Boy, White Stuff, Boy, He, Black, Black Tar, Black Pearl, Black Stuff, Black Eagle, Brown, Brown Crystal, Brown Sugar,
Brown Tape, Brown Rhine, Chiba, Chiva,
Chieva, Mexican Brown, Mexican Mud, Mexican Horse, Junk, Tar, Smack, Snow, Snowball, Scag, Scat, Sack, Skunk, Number 3, Number 4, Number 8,
Bombita, Brea, Blanco, Bonita, Caballo, Calbo, Carga, Carne, Chapopote, Chatarra, Chicle, Cocofan, Gato, Heroina, La Buena, La Chiva, Polvo, Tecata, Tigre, Tigre Blanco, Tigre del Norte,
Vidrio and Zoquete.
Example:
Cadillac Drake had taken quite a fall, from his
heyday as a successful hustler to his
dismal end as a homeless
heroin addict.
Heroin
by Neighborhood Pharmacist on Aug 27, 2008 07:09:58
Heroin is
definetley not the "worst" drug you could do, the worst drug you could do is a drug that causes mental and or physical damage even with moderation ie.
Inhalants (Excluding Nitrous), at least
that's the way i see it.
The media has made this drug out to be the devil when in reality it really isn't. I think it's ironic how people are so looked down upon if they even mention that they have tried heroin when you have all these pharmacutical companies pushing their own version of smack ie.
oxycodone,
oxymorphone, hydrocodone, fentanyl and the list goes on and on and on.
Anyone with a weak mind and no discipline should never use heroin or any opiate for that matter. Heroin can be used in moderation, but i believe a small amount of people are able to do this, they are known as
chippers. If you are about to try this drug you absolutley MUST respect it and it's family (
opiates/
opioids) because if you don't, well
just be ready to lose everything you have and end up on the streets.
There is one thing i do not recommend to people at all, please don't IV this drug. Once you do you will have opened a door that for most of you wish you had never opened, just stick to snorting or smoking it.
A word of caution though this drug is very addictive in the sense that you can experience withdrawal symptoms in as little as three days of continual usage, although the withdrawal symptoms at that point are like a cold but a bit worst it can be easily tolerated. If you start to experience withdrawal the last thing you want to do is use it again because that ladies and gentlemen is the seductive trap that Heroin and other opiates trap you in.
Now let me compare the
heroin high to the high off
Oxycodone. They are both very very similar except that heroin the high is i'd say 2-3x more euphoric. You will also experience alot more respitory depression than with oxycodone. And believe it or not it's hard to fall asleep on this drug, unless i guess you get into the high doses where you start nodding.
I am an example of a
chipper, i use only on weekends to escape the stress of working 70 hour weeks with no days to myself among other shit. It completley melts away all your problems, you won't be able to find them if you tried your hardest cuz you wouldn't give a shit. It's like taking a vacation from your life without really leaving your life.
Example:
http://www.
erowid.org/chemicals/heroin/heroin.
shtml
For more information on this drug that does not include such ignorant statements as-
IT KILLS THE FIRST TIME YOU DO IT
YOU WILL BE HOOKED THE FIRST TIME