Because I am addicted to Heroin...

Overview

Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates.

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Heroin is typically sold as a white or brownish powder, or as the black sticky substance known on the streets as “black tar heroin.” Although purer heroin is becoming more common, most street heroin is “cut” with other drugs or with substances such as sugar, starch, powdered milk, or quinine.

Heroin can be injected, smoked, or sniffed/snorted. High purity heroin is usually snorted or smoked.

Because it enters the brain so rapidly, heroin is particularly addictive, both psychologically and physically. Heroin abusers report feeling a surge of euphoria or "rush," followed by a twilight state of sleep and wakefulness.

One of the most significant effects of heroin use is addiction. With regular heroin use, tolerance to the drug develops. Once this happens, the abuser must use more heroin to achieve the same intensity. As higher doses of the drug are used over time, physical dependence and addiction to the drug develop. Physical symptoms of heroin use include drowsiness, respiratory depression, constricted pupils, nausea, a warm flushing of the skin, dry mouth, and heavy extremities.

Methadone and morphine cause similar effects as heroin.

Heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death. The effects of a heroin overdose are slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and possible death.

Heroin is not legal in the United States.

Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants grown in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos and Myanmar (Burma); Southwest Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan), Mexico and Colombia. It comes in several forms, the main ones being "black tar" from Mexico (found primarily in the western United States) and white heroin from Colombia (primarily sold on the East Coast.)

Addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease related to reward, motivation and memory and often leads to biological, psychological, career, social and spiritual problems.

This site provides basic information about the various drugs that are commonly abused on the black market. To make it clear, all of the drugs discussed on this site can be dangerous and most are highly addictive. If you are addicted to drugs, we strongly advocate that you seek professional healthcare for your addiction.