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HEROIN

Heroin is a powerful narcotic drug that is very habit-forming. It is derived from the opium poppy plant.

STREET NAMES

• Black tar
• Black stuff
• Big bag
• Schmack
• Number 4/Number 8

SHORT TERM EFFECTS

• “Rush”: warm feeling of the skin and a dry mouth
• Slowed breathing
• Clouded mental functioning

SHORT TERM EFFECTS CONT.

• Nausea with vomiting
• Sedation; drowsiness
• Hypothermia (body temp lower than normal)

LONG TERM EFFECTS

• Damaged veins
• Bacterial infections that damage blood vessels and the heart
• Kidney and liver disease
• Pneumonia
• Tuberculosis

HAZARDS

• Heart and liver failure
• Suicidal thoughts
• Depression
• Great risk for accidental overdose

Legal Aspects:
Known to be effective in malignant pain, and are a mainstay in the palliative care or cancer patients.

Legal Aspects Cont:
If a person is caught using, selling, or manufacturing heroin they will be arrested.
Possession: 7 years in jail/$15,000 fine.
Dealer & intent to sell: 5 years-life in jail/$25,000 fine.
If you are stoned in a public place you can spend 6 months in jail or a $1,000 fine.

History:
Opium addiction was a major problem in the 1850's. Then, heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.

FACT OR MYTH?

SOURCES

• http://www.heroin.ws/Heroin-Side-Effects.htm
• Compact Research: Heroin by Laura K. Egendorf.
• HeroinAddiction.info
• http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/heroin/the-destructive-effects-of-he...
• http://www.michaelshouse.com/heroin-addiction/health-hazards/

SOURCES CONT.

• http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/heroin.html
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1495025/
• UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances, 2006
• http://carondelet.net/Drugs/Heroine/legal_consequences.htm