HEROIN

WHAT IS HEROIN ?

• Heroin is a illegal, highly addictive drug produced by morphine
• It is typically sold as white or brownish powder

HOW IS HEROIN USED?

• Heroin can be used many ways but many use it by injecting it into your veins into your blood streams.
• People can snort it or smoke it there’s many ways drugs can be used
• People use it as eye drops by during the powder into liquid by heating it up on a spoon a spoon is what is usually used to heat the powder and what makes it turn into liquid

HEROIN IS DANGEROUS?

• More than 47,000 people in the United States in 2017 have overdosed on heroin, opioid pills.
• I’ve seen people shoot up and snort heroin
• In Anchorage where I grew up it was a very bad experience and I wish I never saw it

HOW HEROIN CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE ?

• First of all you start getting really skinny, look like you are always tired or drunk, you feel sick. It can make you want more and more.
• soon enough you’ll overdose or just waste your life loosing friends, family members drugs ruin people’s life’s forever even if you quit.
• People will look at you different nobody will want to be your friend drugs make you do terrible things to people.

WHERE DID HEROIN COME FROM ?

• Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment

HOW IS YOUR DRUG MADE ?

• Heroin is made from the resin of poppy plants, milky sap like opium is first removed from the pod of the poppy flower. This opium is refined to make morphine, then further refined into different forms of heroin.

WHEN DID HEROIN BECOME POPULARIZED?

• In 1942 the deputy commissioner of the New York Police reported that 94% of all crimes were being committed by heroin addicts
• Over 200,000 heroin addicts in New York City. In 1914

SYMPTOMS OF HEROIN

• Lying about drug use
• Avoiding loved ones
• Possession of burned spoons, needles or syringes, missing shoelaces, glass pipes
• Shortness of breath
• Constricted pupils
• Weight loss
• Scabs or bruises as the result of picking at the skin

EFFECTS OF HEROIN

• Liver disease Skin disease and abscesses around injection sites Infections of the valves and lining of the heart Clouded mental functioning Itching Collapsed, scarred veins Blood clots, leading to stroke, pulmonary embolism, and heart attack Kidney disease Risks of contracting chronic illnesses

PICTURES OF PEOPLE ON HEROIN

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