Heroin

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Heroin

• -Katie Shaw

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Heroin

• Diacetylmorphine
• Horse, crank, black tar
• White or brownish powder

• Black sticky substance
• Cut with sugar, starch, strychnine

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How Heroin is Used

• Smoked or inhaled as powder
• Injected
• Vein
• 7 to 8 seconds
• Muscle or under skin
• 5 to 8 minutes
• Water pipe, standard pipe
• Mixed in marijuana joint or cigarette

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History of Heroin

• Opium poppy plant
• 1874- English chemist
• C.R. Alder Wright
• Discovered more potent form of morphine
• Diacetylmorphine
• 23 years later, Bayer pharmaceuticals
• Chemist Felix Hoffman
• Codeine

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More History

• 1898-1910
• Sold as morphine substitute and cough medicine
• Cure for morphine addiction
• 1914-
• Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
• 1924-
• Congress banned sale, importation, or
  manufacturing

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Psychological Effects

• euphoria
• Clouded mental functioning
• Depression of central nervous system
• Slowed and slurred speech
• Reduced anxiety
• the nod

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Physiological Effects

• Slow walking
• Constricted pupils, droopy eyelids
• Vomiting and constipation
• Collapsed veins, heart infections, liver diseases
• Pneumonia, clogs in blood vessels

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General Info.

• Tolerance
• Start to crave 4 to 6 hours
• Withdrawal effects 8-12 hours
• Teary eyes, irritable anxious, sweating, cramps
• Overdose
• HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, skin infections