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 | | Injection continues to be the predominant method of heroin use among addicted users seeking treatment; however, researchers have observed a shift in heroin use patterns, from injection to sniffing and smoking. | | | This may be because the patient in pain is simply seeking relief of pain and not the rush sought by the addict. | | | Other pharmaceutical approaches, like LAAM (levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol), and many behavioral therapies also are used for treating heroin addiction. |
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http://www.drugstv.com/heroin.htm
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| | Neuroscience for Kids - Heroin |
| | Heroin addiction is usually treated with both medical and behavioral methods. | | | Methadone is a drug that blocks the effects of heroin and has been used for several decades to treat heroin addiction. | | | This system is responsible for the pleasurable effects of heroin and for the addictive power of the drug. |
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http://staff.washington.edu/chudler/hero.html
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| | Heroin - Factsheet - Drug Facts |
| | This permits the patient to be free from the uncontrolled, compulsive, and disruptive behavior associated with heroin addiction. | | | According to Pulse Check: Trends in Drug Abuse, during the first half of 2002, heroin was perceived to be the drug associated with the most serious consequences (medical, legal, and societal) in 15 of the 20 Pulse Check sites across the United States. | | | LAAM, a synthetic opiate similar to methadone, is used to treat heroin addiction. |
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http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/heroin
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| | Drug information - Heroin, skag |
| | Heroin is not instantly addictive, but with regular usage the body adjusts and tolerance sets in, until no pleasurable feelings are felt at all. | | | Health risks: Most of the dangers of heroin use come from using shared or dirty needles which can considerably increase your chances of contracting diseases like HIV (see HIV: preventing infection), hepatitis, septicaemia, gangrene and pneumonia as well as developing body sores and ulcers. | | | Heroin can be smoked with tobacco, heated on tin foil ('chasing the dragon'), snorted or injected, either just below the skin's surface ('skin popping') or directly into a vein ('mainlining'). |
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| | Basic Facts About Drugs: Heroin |
| | Methadone, a synthetic used mainly in the treatment of heroin addiction, is often abused and responsible for a number of overdose deaths. | | | The behavioral impact of habitual heroin use is generally devastating. | | | The sense of contentment and physical relaxation that characterize the heroin "high" generally last three to four hours. |
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http://www.acde.org/common/Heroin.htm
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| | The A-Z of Drugs |
| | Heroin slows down body functioning and stops physical and psychological pain. | | | Like many drugs made from opium, including the synthetic opioids like methadone, heroin is a very strong painkiller. | | | If heroin is taken with other drugs, including alcohol, overdose is much more likely. |
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| | What You Need to Know About Drugs: Heroin |
| | Heroin is a very addictive drug and many people find it extremely difficult to stop using it - even after using heroin for just the first or second time. | | | Many people who are addicted to heroin inject the drug into a vein using needles. | | | Although certain narcotics such as codeine and morphine are legal if prescribed (given) by doctors to treat pain, such as when someone has surgery or breaks a bone, heroin is an illegal narcotic because it is has dangerous side effects and is very addictive. |
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http://kidshealth.org/kid/grow/drugs_alcohol/know_drugs_heroin.html
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| | Heroin Fast Facts |
| | Users who snort or smoke heroin at times graduate to injection because as their bodies become conditioned to the drug, the effects it produces are less intense. | | | Both new and experienced users risk overdosing on heroin because it is impossible for them to know the purity of the heroin they are using. | | | They then turn to injection--a more efficient means of administering the drug--to try to attain the more intense effects they experienced when they began using the drug. |
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http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs3/3843
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| | Heroin addicts commonly share needles and other paraphernalia. | | | In addition to the risks associated with overdosing and addiction, there are several other health risks associated with the use of heroin. | | | Sharing needles is why there is a high incidence of hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus infections [aids] among heroin users. |
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| | Interpol - Drugs Sub-Directorate |
| | An increasingly large portion of Afghanistan’s opium is processed into morphine base and heroin by drug laboratories in the country, significantly reducing its bulk and facilitating the movement of the drug to markets in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. | | | A commensurate increase in heroin overdoses and mortality rates can be anticipated as a consequence of the increased purity of southwest Asian heroin, but the more important effect will be an acceleration of the spread of HIV/AIDS in regions affected by heroin injection. | | | One indicator of this higher heroin purity is a change in abuse patterns. |
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| | DrugInfo Clearinghouse (ADF) - Drug facts - Heroin |
| | Dependence on heroin can be psychological, physical or both. | | | People who are physically dependent on heroin usually develop tolerance to the drug, making it necessary to take more and more to get the desired effects. | | | After using heroin, feelings of pain, hunger or sexual urges are diminished. |
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| | From Flowers to Heroin |
| | By the time the heroin gets to the user, it is often only about 40 percent pure, and little is known by anyone involved in the production or trafficking of the drug about the components of the other 60 percent. | | | The two most commonly produced heroin varieties are No. 3 heroin, or smoking heroin, and No. 4 heroin, or injectable heroin. | | | The traffickers said this was to hide the drugs’ smell from drug-sniffing dogs, but it was unsuccessful. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Medical notes Heroin |
| | Pregnant women who use heroin risk giving birth to smaller babies who are themselves addicted to heroin. | | | This means more and more of the drug has to be used to create the same 'high'. | | | Methadone works just like heroin, but does not provide the same euphoric effects. |
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| | washingtonpost.com: Special Report on Drug Issues Around the World |
| | Through the years, Colombians have refined the process to make their heroin up to 90 percent pure, and some are passing on their skills to Mexican traffickers. | | | The ability to use heroin without injection and the corresponding fear of HIV infection from dirty needles has made heroin more popular, narcotics experts say. | | | Colombian and U.S. officials said the changes are tied to an emerging alliance between a Colombian heroin trafficking organization led by Ivan Urdinola and Mexican drug smuggling groups that are learning how to produce more potent heroin. |
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| | Heroin drug addiction, heroin effects at SAMHSA's NCADI |
| | Heroin is an illegal Schedule I drug, meaning that it is in the group of the most highly addictive drugs. | | | Heroin drug addiction, heroin effects at SAMHSA's NCADI | | | According to a 2002 national study, less than 1 percent report ever having tried it. |
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| | Heroin Addiction Effects Of Heroin Heroin Facts |
| | Learn about Heroin Addiction, the Effects Of Heroin and the Heroin Facts they don’t want you to know. | | | The truth about heroin addiction and the effects of heroin can impact the rest of your life. | | | Heroin Addiction - Effects Of Heroin - Heroin Facts |
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| | Heroin page in Fuller Up, Dead Musician Directory |
| | The heroine was too pure and too much for Jim because he never really often did heroine, and the amount was so much that Jim could not handle the amount. | | | By 1974 their act had degenerated to a dreary repetition that took its toll in discord, nervous breakdowns and more irresolvable internal problems culminating in a fatal heroin overdose by Vincent Taylor, a latter-day member. | | | Twenty-two-year-old drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, who has a history of drug and alcohol problems, was with keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin, 34, when he overdosed at the Regency Hotel. |
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| | Heroin Get Help Today |
| | Battling heroin addiction is a crippling process that no one should have to face alone. | | | Please call one of our qualified counselors today and get started on the journey to recovery. | | | 2003 Heroin Help All Rights Reserved home heroin info get help |
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| | Heroin - Features - Health Matters |
| | Health Matters takes a detailed look at heroin – the drug itself, treatment options, and how the police and the courts treat heroin offenders. | | | Why does heroin exert such a powerful effect on those who use it? | | | Can we ever hope to eradicate it – or should we concentrate our efforts instead on helping those who succumb to it? |
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| | While it received widespread acceptance from the medical profession, physicians remained unaware of its potential for addiction for years. | | | Heroin -- Changes In How It Is Used: 1992-2002 | | | First synthesized from morphine in 1874, heroin was not extensively used in medicine until the beginning of this century. |
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| | Erowid Heroin Vault |
| | Diary of a Drug Fiend, by Aleister Crowley | | | Real Drug Crisis Is Those Over 30 - LA Times, Feb 23, 1997 | | | U.K. Drug clinic 'cast aside duty of care' - Guardian UK, Oct 2004 |
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| | MAP: Heroin |
| | UK: Pioneering Heroin Treatment Doctor May Be Struck Off | | | US PA: Heroin Drug Of Choice Among County Students | | | US IL: Police Warn Against Accepting Free 'Heroin' |
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| | Technorati Tag: heroin |
| | Heroin Information and Treatment Learn more about heroin. | | | This terrible drug is destroying our children's dreams. | | | Heroin Treatment and Recovery Make your first step to the future. |
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| | Lycaeum > Leda > Heroin |
| | Entry point for an eclectic group of sites with information and opinions on many things, including drugs. | | | "We hope this compilation of scientific information on heroin will help to inform readers about the harmful effects of heroin abuse and addiction and will assist in prevention and treatment efforts." | | | Ketamine Psychedelic Therapy in the treatment of alcoholism and heroin addiction (related items... |
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| | Heroin |
| | Perhaps more than any other band, Heroin exemplified the psychologically acute and almost psychotically intense Gravity Records/San Diego hardcore scene of the early and mid-1990s. | | | Though Heroin is no more, its members went on to play in other groundbreaking Gravity hardcore bands, including Antioch Arrow, Second Story Window, and Clikatat Ikatowi. | | | Songs like "Moving Parts," from Heroin's 1993 Gravity/Vermiform Records 12-inch, totally disregarded all punk rock conventions, and they will forever change the way you listen to hardcore. |
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| | MH Book Locator |
| | The Mental Effects of Heroin (Encyclopedia of Psychological Disorders) | | | Life Out of Focus : Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (Encyclopedia of Psychological Disorders) |
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| | Heroin Drug Abuse/Heroin: Death in the Blood |
| | Drugs destroy millions of lives every year — too often the lives of children upon whom our future depends. | | | To read the PDF version of Heroin Death in the Blood Click here --> | | | Ecstasy: the truth about the enemy behind the mask |
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