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                                                                          heroin addiction

Heroin is an opiate that comes from the poppy plant. Blacktar, Brown sugar, Skag,Dope, Horse, Junk, Mud,, Smack, H. These are all street names for heroin,Heroin addiction occurs after longer term use, usually after 3 to 6 months . Heroin is a dirivative of morphine.Both Heroin and morphine are a very strong and mind numbing pain killer. Heroin is highly addictive.Heroin is taken by shooting up with a needle, eaten or snorted. It is also mixed with other drugs to acheive a more uphoric high. It is mostly mixed with cocaine for what is called a speed ball effect. A high with a combination of upper and downer kind of high. It is also mixed with PCP
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Heroin addiction is associated with some very serious health conditions, including fatal overdose, spontaneous abortion, collapsed veins, and infectious diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis. Heroin looks like a white or often times brown refined powder substance.The short-term effects of heroin ingestion appear shortly after a single dose andusually last a few hours. After a heroin injection, the user reports feeling a rush of euphoria and then a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heaviness in the extremities. The user goes "on the nod",a feeling of both wakefulness and drowsiness. Heroin will depress the central nervous system.
Chronic users may develop collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses (pus-filled pocket inside inflamed, infected tissue), , liver disease, and cellulitus. Also various types of pneumonia, may result from the poor health condition of the abuser, depressed respiration, suppression of pain and vomiting.Heroin use will also produce tolerance and physical dependence, which are also powerful factors for continued use and abuse. As with abusers of any addictive drug, heroin addicts gradually spend more and more time and energy obtaining and using the drug. Once they are addicted, the heroin abusers' primary purpose in life becomes seeking and using drugs. The drugs literally change their brains. Long-term effects of heroinSymptoms of withdrawal include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), and leg movements. Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 24 and 48 hours after the last dose of heroin and subside after about a week. However, some people have shown persistent withdrawal signs for many months. Heroin withdrawal is never fatal to otherwise healthy adults, but for those whose bodies have been ravaged and weakened by long term use and malnurishment could die if not properly detoxed in a medical setting.
Additives in street heroin may include substances that do not 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. Immune reactions to these or other contaminants can cause arthritis or other rheumatologic problems. One percent of Heroin addicts will die of an overdose to the drug.