https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr en-us 2016-03-03 17:42:28 UTC 2024-09-30 05:09:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/rose_close.jpg aileenchavez99 https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/98855838 What is Heroin??

Heroin is a highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine, and is often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria. In other words.. 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.]]> 2016-03-03 18:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/98855838 aileenchavez99 https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/98859020 In the mid to late 1800’s, opium was a fairly popular, that is mostly used in heroin. By 1874 the answer to this increasing problem was thought to be found in the invention of a new drug in Germany. This new wonder drug was called Heroin, after its German trademarked name. Heroin was imported into the United States shortly after it was invented. The sales pitch that created an instant market to American doctors and their morphine addicted patients was that Heroin was a “safe, non-addictive” substitute for morphine. ]]> 2016-03-03 18:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/98859020 aileenchavez99 https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/99106101
The effects on the body from continued use of this drug are very destructive. Frequent injections can cause collapsed veins and can lead to infections of the blood vessels and heart valves. Tuberculosis can result from the general poor condition of the body. Arthritis is another long-term result of heroin addiction. heroin users often share their needles that can lead to AIDS and other easily spread infections. your mouth gets dry, you feel drowsy, your skin has a warm flushing feeling, you feel weak and your breathing slows down.

]]> 2016-03-04 18:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/99106101 aileenchavez99 https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/99839930 National Number of Deaths from Heroin. The figure below is a bar chart showing the total number of United states deaths involving heroin from 2001 to 2014. The chart is overlayed by a line graph showing the number of deaths by females and males. From 2001 to 2014 there was a 6-fold increase in the total number of deaths.  (because you cant really see this chart here is the address). https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/cdc-us-overdose-deaths-2014_jr-5.jpg]]> 2016-03-09 02:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/99839930 aileenchavez99 https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/99843621 heroin growing more popular because it's cheap. Heroin was once largely a problem among hard core drug addicts, who prized the drug for its intense high. Today, young middle-class suburbanites are the ones getting hooked and, quite often, dying of an overdose. it is cheaper than prescription drugs.]]> 2016-03-09 03:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aileenchavez99/6n7isyzc0avr/wish/99843621