Heroin is made from
morphine that is extracted from a plant and usually appears as a sticky black
substance or a white or brown powder, the black sticky substance is often known
as “black tar heroin”. Heroin was first brought about in the 1890s and it was
considered to be a great painkiller even better than morphine and it often
helped coughing. Heroin is injected with a needle and after the injection it
has been noted that a rush comes over the users but then also hot flashes, dry
mouth, a cloudy mental state, and heaviness of their hands and feet. With the
first effect being a sort of euphoria make a user feel peaceful and quite
content, but after it masks all of the users instincts, fears, and any remorse.
Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs for the fact of its peacefulness and
also its pain killing effect, making you just feel numb. The attraction of the
numb feeling is only one thing, but on the other end it also depresses you,
numbs you of course, and can cause nausea and vomiting. Since heroin is
injected with needles often diseases are spread among heroin uses from sharing
needles since they are often an expensive part of using the drug. Also you can
become highly addicted to heroin and while you are injecting yourself some of
you veins may even collapse causing many other issues such as an infection with
your heart lining or with your heart valves.
Heroin addicts have
many negative effects that happen on their brain and there are many signs of
it. Often users can become easily tired but then have spurts of energy, they
can have a hard time breathing, and users will always have wounds from the
injections themselves, often there will be skin infections, feeling nauseous or
vomiting, their eyes will appear distant and will have constricted pupils.
Users often have a lack of motivation as well and will try and distance
themselves from friends and family in order to avoid as much interactions with
others as they can, and sometimes users experience memory loss which can even
make their families want to distance themselves because you just are no longer
there, no longer the person they knew. Often addicts become only focused on now
and not the future at all making it hard to get away from the drug.
Heroin abusers are
usually associated with problems with pregnancy, infectious diseases, and most
importantly, fatal overdose. With all of the diseases a user can develop from
using the drug, things such as pneumonia can develop making it even harder to
breathe and harder to survive. This street drug is full of toxins that can even
clog your veins causing liver, kidneys, brain, or lungs to either fail or have permanent
damage. Despite the fact of having permanent organ damage the most damage
heroin can do to someone is get them addicted. With the addicting drug users
start to become only focused on using and spend more time and energy obtaining
the drug than they do on anything else. With being so focused on getting drugs,
users can become malnourished as the drug changes their thoughts and behavior
and decides heroin is more important than food.
Getting off of
heroin is quite a challenge when it comes to the withdraw symptoms. They crave
more, can’t relax, their muscles ache, no more sleep, their system flushes
itself, and users experience cold flashes and they sit and shiver. It often
takes addicts over 72 hours to hit the peak of their withdraw and about a week
to finally stop craving the drug they’ve always been attached to. Some people aren’t
even able to make it past the withdraw because the drug already took their life
too far down to recover.
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