Quick Facts About Heroin
Other Names: Smack, horse, mud, brown sugar, junk, black
tar, big H, dope
Effects:
- Addiction
- Slow and slurred speech
- Slow gait
- Constricted pupils, droopy eyelids, impaired night vision
- Vomiting after first use and at very high doses
- Decreased sexual pleasure, indifference to sex
- Reduced appetite
- Constipation
- "Nodding off" (at high doses)
- Respiratory depression or failure
- Increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis, and other
infectious diseases if injected
- Dry, itching skin and skin infections
- Death from overdose
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