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Heroin is an opioid which is a class of drugs that are used medically as painkillers. They can be both synthetic and natural but both are incredible addictive and dangerous. Heroine is made from morphine which is a substance the is naturally occurring in certain poppy seeds.

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Heroin can be either white or brown powder, or a black sticky tar.

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Heroin has many names including black tar, big H, horse, hell dust, diacetylmorphine (scientific name), white china, chiva, skag, junk, skunk, brown sugar, white horse, thunder, and smack.

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Heroin is classified as a schedule 1 drug and has no medical uses in the United States. Heroin is also a narcotic/depressant.

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People inject, sniff, snort, or smoke heroin. It can also be mixed with crack cocaine which is called speedballing.

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Heroin binds to and activates specific receptors in the brain called mu-opioid receptors (MORs). Our bodies contain naturally occurring chemicals called neurotransmitters that bind to these receptors throughout the brain and body to regulate pain, hormone release, and feelings of well-being. When the MORs are activated in the "good" side of the brain, the they cause the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, and this is done with the aid of drugs such as heroin. Dopamine, as most of us know, creates a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction, which causes the user to want to use the drug more and more.

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Some of the many harmful effects of heroin use both long and short term are nausea, vomiting, severe itching, clouded mental functioning, insomnia, collapsed veins (injection only), damaged tissue inside the nose (snorting only), infection of the heart lining and valves. abscesses (swollen tissue filled with pus), constipation, 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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This drug is not as relevant to teens, because this drug is sort of the "last straw". People only use this drug when they have grown tolerance to almost every other drug they have tried, but i'll still add some numbers on the percentages of heroin users for teens. .7% of all 8th graders had used it in their life time, .3% of them had used it in the past year, and .2% of them had used it in the past month. For 10th graders, .4% of them had used it in their lifetime, .2% of them had used it in the past year, and .1% of them had used it in the last month. Lastly, for 12th graders, .7% of them had used it in their lifetime, .4% of them had used it in the past year, and .2% of them had used it within the past month.

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At the end of the 19th century in both America and Britain, opium and morphine were popular for medical and recreational purposes. While heroin was first derived at about this time by boiling morphine, it would be a while before it too would become a popular drug. They had discovered these drugs from areas in the Middle East and Asia. Heroin was very popular for soldiers because they were not allowed to drink, so they would use heroin as an alternative. By 1924, they ruled it illegal because they had discovered the side effects of abusing the drug, and since more and more awareness has been brought to the deadliness of the drug.

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