10 Facts About The Drug Heroin
10 facts about the drug heroin. This list contains ten facts you didn´t know about heroin – one of the most dangerous drugs in the world | planet earth. Do you know interesting, amazing, fascinating and mind blowing things about heroin? Let us know in the comments…
10. Heroin is a highly addictive drug that is processed from morphine, which is a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant.
9. The primary producers of heroin are located in a few regions around the world: South America, Southeast | Southwest Asia and Mexico. Afghanistan produces the majority of the world’s heroin.
8. The most common street names used by dealers and addicts are: Smack, horse, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar.
7. Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected. People who use it describe a feeling of warmth, relaxation and detachment, with a lessening sense of anxiety.
6. In 1898 the typical drug addict in Britain was a middle-class woman in her forties. Today it is an 18-year-old male.
5. The heroin addict spends between to 0 per day to maintain a heroin addiction.
4. Two of the most serious long-term effects of heroin addiction are heart disease and liver failure.
3. Heroin is a derivitive of the German word Heroisch which means Heroic. It is said that heroin makes a person feel heroic.
2. The use of “dirty” or shared needles when injecting heroin can spread deadly infectious diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis B and C.
1. Approximately 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
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