From the website http://www.drugfree.org/portal/drug_guide/heroin
It looks like a dark brown powder or a tar like substance.
Short term effects
- They appear after a small single dose and tend to disappear after a few hours.
- The feeling a ‘rush’ will happen which is then accompanied by a hot flush, dry mouth and heavy extremities.
- The user will then go on a ‘nod’ going through a wakeful and drowsy state.
- Slowed and slurred speech is common.
- Constricted pupils and droopy eyelids.
- Vomiting and constipation.
Long term effects
- Constant users may develop collapsed veins, infections of the heart lining and valves.
- Abscesses and liver disease.
- Depression is very common.
- Some street heroin may have additives that do not dissolve properly and this could result into clogging the blood vessels which lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys or brain. This can cause infection or even in some cases DEATH.
Information from http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs
Street heroin is sometimes used by clubbers to chill after a big night out.
Street names for heroin….. Brown, skag, H, horse, gear, smack.
Cost- Prices can vary from region to region. Feeding a heroin addict can cost up to £100 a day so it’s not cheap at all.
What heroin looks like
