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Everything You Know About Heroin Addiction Is Wrong

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Heroin is bad! Don't do heroin. But despite how many high-profile people who have used it, Hollywood, and by extension all of us, has absolutely no idea what an actual heroin addiction is like.

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In 2007, 93% of the world’s opium supply came from Afghanistan. (Opium is the raw material for heroin supply.) Its total export value was about $4 billion, of which almost three quarters went to traffickers. About a quarter went to Afghan opium farmers.

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“History of Heroin.” Narconon International, www.narconon.org/drug-information/heroin-history.html.
“Nicknames for Heroin.” Narconon International, www.narconon.org/drug-abuse/heroin/nicknames.html.

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4 reasons why it is so prevalent. 1) It's cheap. 2) Theres lots of it. 3)It's apparently a "better high" Due to the purity of it. 4) Its derived from Opioids, the same place many pain killers come from. A pain killer can be substituted with heroin sometimes.

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It is used to bring people back from ODing, it is given to people who ODed without legal charges.

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Dragon (smoking heroin is called “Chasing the Dragon”)

Dope

H

Big H

White

White Lady

China White

Mexican Mud

Horse

Scag

Black Tar

Brown Crystal

Brown Sugar

Nod

Chiba

Chiva

Tar

Snowball

Smack

Junk

Black Pearl

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insomnia

collapsed veins for people who inject the drug

damaged tissue inside the nose for people who sniff or snort it

infection of the heart lining and valves

abscesses (swollen tissue filled with pus)

constipation and stomach cramping

liver and kidney disease

lung complications, including pneumonia

mental disorders such as depression and antisocial personality disorder

sexual dysfunction for men

irregular menstrual cycles for women

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dry mouth

warm flushing of the skin

heavy feeling in the arms and legs

nausea and vomiting

severe itching

clouded mental functioning

going "on the nod," a back-and-forth state of being conscious and semiconscious

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People inject, sniff, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, a practice called speedballing.

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Heroin is similar to morphine, which has been around in medicine since the civil war. Heroin was created in Germany, thought to be a non addictive substitute for morphine. Well, they were a little off...