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If a person is caught using, selling, or manufacturing heroin they will be arrested. If you have possession of the drug, you can spend 7 years in jail or have a $15,000 fine. However, if you are a dealer and have heroin with intent to sell, you can spend anywhere from 5 years-life in jail or a $25,000 fine.

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Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It is used by millions of addicts around the world who are unable to overcome the urge to continue taking this drug every day of their lives-knowing that if they stop, they will face the horror of withdrawal.

Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants. Milky, sap-like opium is first removed from the pod of the poppy flower. This opium is refined to make morphine, then further refined into different forms of heroin.

Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.

"Heroin cut me off from the rest of the world. My parents kicked me out. My friends and my brothers didn't want to see me anymore. I was all alone." -Suzanne

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.

A vicious circle

During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States. The "solution" was to provide opium addicts with a less potent and supposedly "non-addictive" substitute-morphine. Morphine addiction soon became a bigger problem than opium addiction.

As with opium, the morphine problem was solved by another "non-addictive" substitute-heroin, which proved to be even more addictive than morphine. With the heroin problem came yet another "non-addictive" substitute-the drug now known as methadone. First developed in 1937 by German scientists searching for a surgical painkiller, it was exported to the US and given the trade name "Dolophine" in 1947. Renamed methadone, the drug was soon being widely used as a treatment for heroin addiction. Unfortunately, it proved to be even more addictive than heroin.

By the late 1990s, the mortality rate of heroin addicts was estimated to be as high as twenty times greater than the rest of the population.

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What is Heroin? How is Heroin Made? What is Heroin Made of? - Drug-Free World

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Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It is used by millions of addicts around the world who are unable to overcome the urge to continue taking this drug every day of their lives-knowing that if they stop, they will face the horror of withdrawal.

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If you posses heroin you go to prison

7 years of jail or $15,000 fine

If your a dealer than you go to jail for 5 years to life

$25,000 fine

If you use it in public its 6 months in jail or $1,000 fine

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Bad teeth

Itching

Respiration problems

Immune system weakness

Depression

Memory loss

Loss of apitite

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Slowed breathing

Rush

Clouded mental function

Nausea and vomiting

drowsiness

Hypothermia

Coma or death if you overdose

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Injections, sniffing, and smoking

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Heroin is a schedule 1 drug

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Some street names are Hell dust, Nose Drops, Skag, Smack, Thunder, etc.