Street_Drugs

Street Drugs Heroin Heroin was first created from morphine in 1874, yet was not widely used in medicine until the beginning of this century. Commercial production of the new pain medicine was first started in 1898. Doctors remained unaware of its potential for addiction for years. The first attempt to control the use of heroin in the United States was established with the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914. Heroin is now a highly addictive drug, and its use is a serious problem in America. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from Asian poppy plant. Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. Street names for heroin include smack, H, skag, and junk. Other names may refer to types of heroin produced in a specific geographical area, such as mexician black tar. Heroin abuse is associated with serious health conditions, including fatal overdose, collapsed veins, infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours. After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria accompanied by warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following that comes an alternately wakeful heroin, lsd, after, effects, drug, withdrawal, users, mouth, hours, death, abuse, veins, taken, symptoms, street, serious, pain, one, names, medicine, major, liver, last, infection, including, include, heroin-related, heart, health, first, few, fear, fatal, episodes, dry, dose