Behaviors of Heroin Addicts

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• Behaviors of Heroin Addicts

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What do Heroin Addicts Act Like? Heroin addicts
can experience a shift in personality, behavior,
and physical health in times of active addiction.
What signs can you look out for? And what can you
do to help?
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How Do Addicts Use Heroin? Before we explore
some of the behaviors of heroin addicts, it will
help to have some context about heroin and its
use and distribution. Heroin comes from many
places China, Mexico, the mountains around the
borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, as
such areas are poppy rich. Opium poppies (a
flower) grow best in dry, warm climates. They are
often grown in these areas by farmers with small
plots of land. The sap is collected by the
farmer, then its bought by a merchant or broker
who takes the opium to a morphine refinery. The
opium is refined into morphine base and then
reacted with acetic anhydride, a chemical also
used in the production of aspirin. Most black
market heroin is highly impure due to
contaminants left after refinement of opium into
morphine, which then remain in the final product.
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