Heroin
Slang names for heroin: salt, brown crystal, dirt, and white junk
At its purist form Heroin is a powder substance white in color. However, when sold on the streets, Heroin is sometimes altered and mixed with other substances which reduces its purity and might alter its color to a brownish color and also change its state from powder substance to a rocky solid
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how heroin is taken
Heroin is taken four different ways but all give the same high. Often users Inject the drug into veins or subcutaneously which is placed beneath the skin with needles after burning the drug to a liquid. Heroin is also snorted, smoked, and swallowed in pill form. Regardless of how heroin users take the drug they are at risk for many harmful consequences.
long term effects of heroin
Long term effects from heroin are serious and really can take a toll not only on your appearance but your body's insides it self. Heroin is very addiction taking it only a couple can get you hooked, your brain tells you need it. You can get many infectious diseases and bacterial infections. Most long term users get abscesses and often there veins collapse from to much pressure from the needles. Heroin long term causes arthritis and a lot of other rheumatologic issues. Infection of the heart lining, valves and decrease in liver function can be effected from taking heroin. As you can see heroin is not easy on the body and has many very bad long term effects to the human body.
short term effects of heroin
Heroin short term effects are clouded mental functioning which can cause you to do many things you would actually never do while not on the "rush". The "rush" is the high heroin gives you. Nausea and vomiting happens during the high. Depressed respiration, suppression of pain, and spontaneous abortion are some mental effects after just the first time of using heroin.
5 Facts about Heroin
- As a users addiction continues they build up a stronger tolerance to the drug.
- Heroin addicts are 14% likelier to commit suicide.
- On average 5% heroin addicts die each year.
- More than 10 million people worldwide use heroin.
- 1 in 20 teenagers have abused heroin in their lifetime.