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Heroin

Heroin is a by-product of opium. Without a license, it is illegal to supply or manufacture the drug in most countries, but it can be used for medicinal purposes under prescription in the UK.

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Does heroin harm your body?

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Heroin negatively affects your health because it is a highly addictive drug. It is extremely hard to detox and takes a long time to leave the system.

What is the classification of opiates?

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Opiates are their own class of drugs.

If you are talking about what class of controlled substances opiates are in, they are members of three classes. Illegal opiates like heroin and many other illegal drugs are DEA Schedule I drugs. No Schedule I drug is legal in the US. The stronger opiates like morphine, fentanyl, oxycodone, hydromorphone (Dilaudid), oxymorphone (Opana), and methadone are Schedule II controlled substances. The weaker opiates such as codeine, dihydrocodeine, and hydrocodone (Vicoden) are Schedule III drugs, although the DEA is currently considering moving hydrocodone into Schedule II.

What are heroin withdrawals?

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I am a heroin addict, but my withdrawals aren't that bad. the withdrawals of heroin can range from very minor, to severe or even deadly. it really depends on the person, and how much the person takes, how long the person has been using and how they use it,(snort,smoke,inject). Picture it being the WORST week of your life. your week of quitting cold turkey will compare to a week of having a very bad flu. some users will be sick for days vomiting, sweating,very bad insomnia,sneezing, aching, coughing, and physical pain. I believe it is out of your system in 3 days and withdrawals will last about a week. If you are hooked and decide to quit cold turkey, and complete a week clean, you will be feeling much better and see things clear for the first time since you have been addicted. my advice is if anyone decides to quit, NEVER take an opiate again!! because i have relapsed and swore it would only be one time and now i am back to regular use when only a month ago i felt better then i ever did using the drug.

What are the signs of heroin use?

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A telltale sign of being under the influence of heroin or any other opioid is pinpoint pupils (constricted/small). You also commonly see euphoria, decreased respiration, and slowed mental impairment.


A lot of the time too if they are really strung out they will have lesions on there face, lots of little sores or cuts.

How long does it take to get addicted to heroine?

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Heroin test kits can give a preliminary result in a minute or two (reagents that cops use in the field). A lab test to certify the presence of heroin will take longer (but still probably less than an hour, it just takes time to get things to the lab and get them done). To quantify the components in the heroin could take more time.

How does heroin effect the heart?

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It depends on which drug you are thinking about!

There are many legal drugs that affect the heart. Some slow the rate and help lower the blood pressure. Others regulate the heartbeat. Some drugs speed up the heart rate. There are even drugs that paralyze the heart for open-heart surgeries.

Some legal drugs also have side effects on the heart and have to be taken carefully.

Illegal drugs are illegal because they're posions, so they're the most harmful to the heart and the rest of the body. Most of them either cause the heart to race uncontrollably and increase the blood pressure to dangerous levels, or relax the heart so much that it doesn't beat normally.

How much does one brick of heroine cost?

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hard to say how much a brick is, a kilo prolly is bout 30,000 to 50,000 in the States... and prolly cheaper if u buy a bunch...

Is methadone a synthetic herion?

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Dilaudid is a semi-synthetic drug and both an opiate and a true narcotic, similar to heroin and other opiates. It is used in medicine as an alternative to morphine.

Dilaudid is eight times strong than morphine and four time stronger than heroin. It is a classified as Schedule II narcotic, meaning that it has extra potential for drug abuse and drug addiction.

Where is heroin made?

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Most of the heroin that comes into the USA comes from either Colombia or Mexico. Dominican street gangs distribute the heroin on the east coast and Mexican gangs control most of the Midwest and west coast. The Mexican heroin is black tar heroin which is a cruder, less potent form than the white powder heroin that comes from colombia

When did heroin begin being used in U.S.?

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Heroin was one of the few pain killers used during the American Civil War. When soldiers came home they would often be addicted to heroin, thus starting the spread. So it started to become used greatly during the Reconstruction Era.

Can you insert heroin in your anus?

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YES, you can insert heroin into your anus. The most successful way that will give you the best effect is to have a close one blow it in with a McDonald's straw. VERY IMPORTANT: you need a helper to load the straw before blowing into your sweaty stank shitchute. You'll enjoy the effects almost instantly, and it also helps to numb the anus so your partner can try to bang it out until it bleeds heroin then put that in a spoon and inject it.

Is crack made from poppy plant?

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No. Crack is a smokable form of cocaine.

Cocaine is made from coca leaves, not poppy plants.

Morphine is made from poppy plants.

Street value of black tar heroine?

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Nah, homey. On the east coast 1 bag (or book) is supposed to be 1/10 of a gram, but usually nyc bags are about 40-60mgs. NJ bags are 5-6$ per bag and weigh a pathetic 20-40mgs if u r lucky.

a bundle in nyc is about 90$, in NJ about $40-60.

A brick is 5 bundles, and is usually the cost of 4 bundles (getting the 5th bundle

free)

next up is finger of raw

then a sleeve

In Newark, a bundle is around $60-$80 for quality stuff. Outside of Newark in smaller cities you can end up paying $10 straight through, no breakdown, maybe your guy will do 11 for $100 or 10 for $90. The cheap stuff is $50, meaning the garbage that is cut down so much that you can barely call it heroin. A single bag (.1g) can go between $6-10, but will go down the more you buy. A typical brick in Newark of the fire will be between $275-$300, $250 if you have the hook up. In the suburbs the price will rocket a $8 bag to about $15. Sometimes it's gone as high as $20-$25. "It's all about who you know."

On the west coast in northern cali, its tar, which is about 20-40$ a gram, then 8 balls (3.5 g) for 80-120$, and ounzes (a sandwich size bag about an 1in thick) for about 400$ in the east bay.

In LA and in mission district, they sell 10$ pea size amounts in balloons. if u buy 5, u get 1 free or something like that.

How do you die from heroin?

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There are 2 main ways.

1. Heroin is like any other drug. Taking to much can mess up your brain and/ or other internal organs and kill you sooner or later.

2. As I stated before, heroin messes up your brain. You would probably do something really stupid and get yourself killed while you are "high" on it.

How many die from herion in the US?

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Roughly 17,000 people die each year according to a Government website.

What are the disadvantages of heroin?

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you can get to be violent drowseey hbdgASGUH;eWRIUGHx:dkjgbxsdk you can get to be violent drowseey hbdgASGUH;eWRIUGHx:dkjgbxsdk

Is it marijuana or heroin or cocaine that is a narcotic?

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If you are asking which takes the least amount to become physically addictive it is heroin. Heroin makes significant changes to the human body even in small amounts. Actually if your talking about the hardest habit to quit, its cigarettes, but heroin comes in second.

What happens if you shoot water into your vein?

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Distilled water causes cells to lyse, so injecting distilled water into a vein will cause some degree of hemolysis. Hemolysis is the rupture of red blood cells. A small amount of distilled water would quickly mix with the blood and would cause little to no noticeable damage. A large amount of distilled water would cause much more damage, not just limited to hemolysis. Among other things, large amounts of pure water introduced to the body would alter the electrolyte composition of blood, which could cause brain damage or cardiac arrest and death. This is why fluids are administered to patients as saline (which includes an appropriate amount of salt), and also why athletes prefer to drink fluids with electrolytes as opposed to pure water.

How was heroin discovered?

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Kind of a difficult question to answer. Opium, morphine, and laudanum have been used to get high for centuries, so when heroin hit the market as a cough suppressant and "non-addictive morphine substitute"...it probably didn't take people very long to figure out that it could be used for non-medical purposes. Heroin was first synthesized in 1874 and was completely illegal in the US by 1924; take your answer from that.

Does heroin make you hallucinate?

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Low doses a very unlikely to cause hallucinations, but in extremely high doses you may, depending on your chemical make up, have minor visual, auditory, or (most likely) tactile hallucinations.

I have experienced this myself during an overdose.

Is heroin a steroid?

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No it is a chemical derived from morphine which comes from the seeds of certain poppies. If you are thinking of taking heroin to 'bulk up' don't. It has no nutritional value whatsoever.

How long does heroine stay in a pregnant womens urine?

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You are a pig for doing dope while preg. But you will pass in 3-5days

Is heroin death painful?

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Yes; heroin belongs to class of drugs called opiates. In fact, its chemical name is diacetyl-morphine. Heroin provides higher pain-relief than morphine, although less than that of intravenously injected fentanyl (which is a stronger opiate, or synthetic opiate to be more specific, but it is usually only used for injection during surgery to induce anesthesia and for post-operative pain while the patient is still hospitalized).

Heroin is a morphine-derivative, and therefore provides the same relief and acts in the exact same area of the brain (acting as a mu-opioid receptor agonist); albeit being more potent than morphine itself since it penetrates the brain more quickly. Heroin's analgesic effects are identical to high-potency opiates, semi-synthetic opiates, & opioids (it is most similar in its duration of action and potency to fentanyl and hydromorphone). Its adverse effects are mainly due to the additives found in heroin due its unregulated sale on the black-market--potentially causing stroke, heart attack, infection, and/or liver-damage when injected. Additionally, the lifestyle of black-market, illicit drug users also may attribute to some of the indirect adverse effects associated with heroin use.

Heroin is still legal for use in pain relief in a few countries. Although due to increased abuse (due to its "rush" effect when injected), heroin was perceived as being of higher abuse potential than other opiates; even though new opiates, especially fentanyl, have higher euphoric and analgesic potency than heroin.

Can Heroin causes bleeding of the anus and why?

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Yes it can because taking heroin while being addicted to it and then suddenly stopping can cause hemorrhaging and this can cause renal failure or a gastrointestinal bleed.

What hillbilly herion?

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It is called this due to the amount of use in Rural areas.. It was easier to get in these areas than real heroin and having similar qualities it is more abused in rural than heroin (somewhat)

Also since oxy is an opiate, it can be considered close to heroin (it;s deffinatly rdiculously addictive). But the truth is , if someone buys Oxycontin from the street it is very expensive. which is why it has also coined the term 'yuppy heroin.'