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Heroin
By: Lauren Schwartzbard
M1 Q1 Mr. ShannonOct. 23, 2012
Heroin is an opiate drug, synthesized from
morphine. It usually appears as a white or brown powder and sometimes as a black or dark brown sticky substance.
It is highly addictive and the more a person injects/snorts heroin the more their body becomes dependent on it.
After one uses heroin, they experience a feeling of ecstasy. However the ecstasy is short and after it comes painful symptoms. Headaches, stomachaches, and the like.
What is Heroin?
What does it look like?
The above picture shows heroin in a spoon as well as a needle to inject it into someone's arm.
What does it look like?
Heroin in powder form, white and brown.
Effects of Heroin
Short Term Effects
The image shown does not show any time
factors. However the effects will get stronger as one continues with
the drug.
Long Term Effects
The picture shown on this slide shows the nasty effects of sticking with
heroin. Something to make a note of is that all of the things labeled can, and
probably will in some cases cause death.
Before and After Pictures
These are pictures of young women who got addicted to heroin.
Heroin Percentage of the Drug Report in 2004
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Percentage of All Drugs Reported that were Heroin
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10,000 6,574
1,7641,935
1,486
Heroin Reports
Heroin Repo...
Reports of Heroin Use in 2004
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1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
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7,000 6,574
1,7641,9351,486
Reports of Heroin
Reports: 2004
Drug Reports from 2004
02040 30.3
45.226.1 24
Percentage of All Drugs Reported that
were HeroinPercentage of All Drugs Reported that were Heroin
At night she sleeps with her few remaining
valuables. Her cash, credit card, and car keys. She wears the one bracelet she still owns constantly.
Her son has stolen her heirlooms, jewelry, anything of value so he could buy heroin.
She does not know what to do about her son. No matter what she does, “ she sees the evidence on his arms and in his eyes.” “ ‘I wish my son would just die already’ Colleen said, ‘so I could get this
over with.’ “
Colleen is the mother of a seventeen year-old drug
addict
Her son tasted his first opiate from the
medicine cabinet, but he quickly turned to heroin.
With Facebook and text messaging he always has a steady supply of drugs.
Colleen is ready to give up.
Story taken from the Star Ledger, written by Dan Goldberg and James Queally on October 7, 2012
“ ‘I wish my son would just die already’ Colleen said, ‘so I could get this over with.’ “
One popular cure for heroin addicts is the
‘methadone way’. Methadone is a legal drug that is not intoxicating or sedating.
It is used to quench heroin cravings. However while it stops heroin addicts
from being addicted to heroin it makes them addicted to methadone.
Another curing drug is buprenorphine. It blocks the effects of heroin and
morphine. Some other drugs that are ‘curing drugs’
are naloxone and naltrexone, they are used to help prevent relapses.
Cures and Solutions
Most heroin addicts go to a
rehabilitation center or a hospital to be treated by a physician so they can avoid withdrawal symptoms in detoxification treatment. Many last at least three to four months.
Some treatments combine methadone or buprenorphine with psychotherapy. Often with behavioral therapists.
Cures and Solutions
Heroin Treatments in New Jersey Ages 18-25
2000 2002 2006 2009 2010 2011
4,7125,193
4,455
6,084 5,7726,549
Treatments in New Jersey Suburbs
Bibliography
Goldberg, Dan, and James Queally. “The Heroin Boom.” The Star Ledger (Newark) 7 Oct. 2012:
n. pag. Print.
"heroin." Health Reference Center. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE48&SID=5&iPin=EDRAB0094&SingleRecord=True>.
Heroin is on the rise…soon death
will join it.
Heroin is on the rise…soon death
will join it.
Unless we do something about it.