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Heroin can make you get high. This site can tell you what it feels like to get high on Heroin

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Quite often, people who have experimented with other drugs are curious about what the heroin high feels like. The high comes with feelings of euphoria, which is one of the main reasons people who use heroin give for taking this dangerous drug. However, it comes with many adverse effects as well, which many who use it for the first time find very unpleasant.

The Heroin High

For many people who take this substance, heroin is more about avoiding or numbing pain than feeling good. Compared to other drugs, such as alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and meth, heroin is taken less for recreational and social reasons and more for self-medication.

After a hit of heroin, a variety of chemical changes flood the brain, instantly giving people a feeling of intense pleasure. This rush of euphoria feels very important to those who do not feel good in the first place. This is despite the rebound effect, which actually worsens unpleasant feelings over time.

The heroin high creates changes to thoughts, feelings, and sensations as well. These are caused by the drug's effects on the brain and nervous system.﻿﻿ Other changes are dependent on the personal background and expectations of the person taking it. For this reason, one person might find the effects to be unbearable, while another might feel relief and pleasure from the same effects.

Often when a person who takes heroin seeks a high, they want to feel euphoria, a pleasurable sensation caused by changes in the brain.﻿﻿ For this reason, heroin can appeal to people with depression or anxiety. It's also common among people dealing with unhappy circumstances, such as those living in poverty or someone who had an abusive childhood.

False Feelings

People who use heroin describe sensations of warmth and safety while they are high. This may be despite the fact that, in reality, they are anything but safe or warm.

This is why heroin can be so appealing to people living in unsafe surroundings, including those who are homeless. When sleeping on the streets on a cold night, a hit of heroin can make it possible to relax and get some rest. However, the risks of developing hypothermia or pneumonia will still be present.

At lower doses, heroin can make a person feel calmer, less tense and lonely, and more accepting of those around them. It may help reduce the kind of anxiety that is natural to experience in certain settings.

At higher doses, people often disconnect from those around them, experiencing a kind of floating, dream-like state. This can be a relief for someone with a high level of anxiety or depression, or those who feel alienated from the people and world around them.

For someone who is more grounded, this state can be unpleasant and disorienting. They may not want to repeat the experience.

Pain Relief

Heroin is an opiate and can offer pain-relieving properties, just like a prescription opioid medication. The first few times heroin is used, it is very effective in reducing or eliminating both physical and emotional pain.﻿﻿

This aspect can make it particularly appealing to people who have chronic pain. For instance, someone who has ongoing pain from a current or former injury or is unable to obtain proper medication for an illness might resort to heroin use for relief.

The same is true for individuals who are dealing with or have dealt with, severe emotional trauma. People in desperation might use heroin as a form of self-medication as a way to decrease the emotional and mental distress associated with past abuse or painful experiences.

Dangerous Effects

Many people find heroin very unpleasant the first time they take it and never do it again. The effects that heroin has on the nervous system can cause immediate vomiting. When combined with suppressed breathing and the coughing reflex, this increases the risk of choking. Heroin can also cause constipation.

Fillers and other drugs are often mixed with what is sold as heroin. The amount of actual heroin is unpredictable, so it is impossible to know whether any given dose will be strong or weak. This significantly increases the chances of overdose.

Heroin always carries a very high risk of death by overdose. This risk does not decrease with experience because the body develops a tolerance to it very quickly. Changes in body weight, the route of administration, and periods of abstinence or reduced use also affect how much the body can cope with.

Recently, the risk of dying from an overdose of heroin has risen greatly. This is because heroin and other street drugs are often cut with fentanyl, another opiate that is 50 to 100 times stronger.﻿﻿

Harm Reduction

The harms associated with heroin use are potentially deadly. If you inject heroin, find a needle exchange and use clean ones every time. Do not share needles, even if you feel you know the other person well. Always use a condom when you have sex.

Heroin Addiction

Some people are able to manage controlled heroin use. For those with long-standing emotional problems, a history of trauma, chronic pain, or a disadvantaged lifestyle, the risk of addiction to heroin is very high.﻿﻿

If this describes your situation, and you are experiencing peer pressure to try heroin, it would be wise to avoid it. Instead, try to find connections to other people, perhaps through shared interests. You can also reach out for support through community agencies and look for opportunities to move somewhere else.

There is a high degree of comorbidity between substance use and other mental health conditions.﻿﻿ Getting therapy can help with any emotional or physical issues you may have, even before you develop an addiction.

Avoiding the use of drugs for self-medication purposes can lead to the ability to build a better life and work through these issues in healthy ways. This is something that is very difficult for people who are addicted to heroin.

A Word From Verywell

There is a lot of help available to people who use heroin. Treatments exist and others are being developed that lessen the distress of heroin addiction and withdrawal. Talk to your doctor or a local health agency to find out what is available to you.

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The Different Effects of Heroin Highs and Addiction

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Quite often, people who have experimented with other drugs are curious about what the heroin high feels like. The high comes with feelings of euphoria, which is one of the main reasons people who use heroin give for taking this dangerous drug.

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This site contains information that tells us what heroin is and how it is used.

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Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder that is "cut" with sugars, starch, powdered milk, or quinine. Pure heroin is a white powder with a bitter taste that predominantly originates in South America and, to a lesser extent, from Southeast Asia, and dominates U.S. markets east of the Mississippi River. Highly pure heroin can be snorted or smoked and may be more appealing to new users because it eliminates the stigma associated with injection drug use. "Black tar" heroin is sticky like roofing tar or hard like coal and is predominantly produced in Mexico and sold in U.S. areas west of the Mississippi River. The dark color associated with black tar heroin results from crude processing methods that leave behind impurities. Impure heroin is usually dissolved, diluted, and injected into veins, muscles, or under the skin.

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What is heroin and how is it used? | National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder that is "cut" with sugars, starch, powdered milk, or quinine.

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A highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria.

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Using a drug like Heroin can effect could of effected you in the past,your present,and your future.In the past it could of effected your mood.In the present it could effect maybe your grades in school or behavior.And in the future it could depend on your grades

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This link has some useful tips that you can use to help with addication.

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Where to get help for heroin and opiate addiction. Information on talking therapies, methadone, self-help groups, inpatient care and rehab.

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This website explains some effects that heroin can cause people.

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Repeated heroin use changes the physical structure and physiology of the brain, creating long-term imbalances in neuronal and hormonal systems that are not easily reversed. Studies have shown some deterioration of the brain's white matter due to heroin use, which may affect decision-making abilities, the ability to regulate behavior, and responses to stressful situations. Heroin also produces profound degrees of tolerance and physical dependence. Tolerance occurs when more and more of the drug is required to achieve the same effects. With physical dependence, the body adapts to the presence of the drug, and withdrawal symptoms occur if use is reduced abruptly.

Withdrawal may occur within a few hours after the last time the drug is taken. Symptoms of withdrawal include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), and leg movements. Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 24-48 hours after the last dose of heroin and subside after about a week. However, some people have shown persistent withdrawal signs for many months. Finally, repeated heroin use often results in heroin use disorder-a chronic relapsing disease that goes beyond physical dependence and is characterized by uncontrollable drug-seeking, no matter the consequences. Heroin is extremely addictive no matter how it is administered, although routes of administration that allow it to reach the brain the fastest (i.e., injection and smoking) increase the risk of developing heroin use disorder. Once a person has heroin use disorder, seeking and using the drug becomes their primary purpose in life.

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What are the long-term effects of heroin use? | National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Repeated heroin use changes the physical structure13 and physiology of the brain, creating long-term imbalances in neuronal and hormonal systems that are not easily reversed.14,15 Studies have shown some deterioration of the brain's white matter due to heroin use, which may affect decision-making abilities, the ability to regulate behavior, and responses to stressful situations.16-18 Heroin also produces profound degrees of tolerance and physical dependence.

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Using heroin in anyway can cause your relationships with any one to tear apart.With your family you maybe can't trust that family memeber anymore because they maybe lied about where they are goin or who they are with.Same with couple relationships.Your partner maybe acting a certain way that's not normal.

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Heroin can be a high risk to your life