HEROIN ADDICTION
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Heroin is a highly addictive drug derived from morphine, which is obtained from the opium poppy.
Long-term use of heroin causes tolerance to develop so that in order to achieve the same degree of euphoria, larger and larger doses must be taken. When people have been off heroin for some time their tolerance decreases and a common cause of death result
Heroin is one of several highly addictive drugs derived from the opium poppy plant, along with morphine, opium, Dilaudid, and others.
Typically, a heroin abuser may inject up to four times a day.
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Heroin
Facts 
- Typically, a heroin abuser
may inject up to four times a day.
- Smoking and sniffing
heroin do not produce a "rush" as quickly or as intensely as intravenous
injection, NIDA researchers have confirmed that all three forms of heroin
administration are addictive.
- Over 80% of heroin users
inject with a partner, yet 80% of overdose victims found by paramedics are
found alone.
- Heroin accounts for the
majority of the illicit opiate abuse in America.
- According to the National
Household Survey for 1994, 2.2 million Americans have tried heroin; 191,000
had used it in the previous 30 days.
- The variability in quality
of street heroin can range from 0-90%, which greatly increases the risk of
accidental overdose and death.
- Heroin's potent pain-relieving
properties may actually conceal symptoms of real physical illness or disease
such as pneumonia and delay treatment.
- Recent studies suggest
a shift from injecting to snorting or smoking heroin because of increased
purity and the misconception that these forms of use will not lead to addiction.
- Heroin is processed from
morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed-pod of the
Asian poppy plant.
- Heroin usually appears
as a white or brown powder.
- Street names associated
with 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."
- According to DAWNs Year
End 1998 Emergency Department Data, 14 percent of all emergency department
drug-related episodes had mentions of heroin/morphine in 1998.
- Heroin abuse is associated
with serious health conditions, including fatal overdose, spontaneous abortion,
collapsed veins, and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.
- 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.
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