Injecting heroin!

Heroin is a highly addictive drug. Most likely you will not get addicted from one single dose, however, we suggest you not to try it. Heroin is much more addictive than alcohol, nicotine, amphetamines and cocaine. Some people think that only if you inject heroin you will become addicted. That’s not true, all ways of taking heroin can lead to addiction.

The only difference is that sniffing heroin you don’t have a “high” so fast or so intense as intravenous injection, but the heroin goes to the brain anyway, and there is where addiction and tolerance start up. The expression “chasing the dragon” is used for those who smoke heroin by heating it on a foil and inhaling the vapor through a tube.

The human body has its own endorphins which are released in case of physical injury. Heroin is accepted by the brain as morphine and this binds to the endorphin receptors all over the body, creating a euphoria. Pure heroin is usually white, while street heroin is usually brown from impurities and adulterants. However there is no way to gauge heroin purity just by looking at it.

Heroin is purer now, although dealers reduce purity when they don’t have too much. This is partly because former cocaine cartels are now branching out into heroin as well, effectively flooding the market. Higher purity also makes snorting and inhaling an alternative to injecting without compromising the intensity of the high.

About 10% of heroin users are infested with HIV+, about 50% have Hepatitis B and around 90% have Hepatitis C, because the unsafe injecting practice and because more persons are using the same needles. The brown heroin commonly seen in the UK doesn’t dissolve very easily and therefore difficult to inject intravenously. Users have to use acids, usually citric acid from lemons, to do so.

Heroin comes from Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and the notorious Golden Triangle area of Southeast Asia (Burma, Thailand, Laos), also from poppies grown in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey.

We strongly recommend to everyone reading this article to stay out of heroin’s use, however, if you or someone close to you have problems with heroin addiction, we suggest you to visit Drug Rehab Centers in Canada.