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- Heroin is an illegal opiate
drug
- also called diacetylmorphine
- It is highly addictive
- Gained popularity in 1990's
- accounted for 39% of drug
related deaths in 1992
- In 2000, the average age
for first trying heroin was 22.3 years
- the first heroin smoking
originated in Shanghai in the 1920's
- drugs are basically painkillers
- short term effects of heroin
- Rush
- Depressed Respiration
- Clouded mental functioning
- Nausea and vomiting
- suppression of pain
- During a research study;
they found that, the death rate was 50 to 100 times higher than of the general population of same age men
- In 1993 there were 63,000
emergency room visits related to heroin
- heroin in powder form can
be sniffed or inhaled and when dissolved with water, it can be injected
- At the beginning of
the 21st century Afghanistan, Myanmar (Burma) and Laos were leading opium-producing countries.
- The United States has about
810,000 opiate addicts
- A heroin abuser may
inject up to four times a day
- over 80% of heroin users
inject with a partner, but 80% of overdose victims are found alone by paramedics
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