Heroin Addiction Treatment

What is Heroin?

Heroin is an opioid drug made from morphine, a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the various opium poppy plants grown in Southeast and Southwest Asia, Mexico, and Colombia. Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin. 


Methods of use include injection, snorting, or smoking heroin. It is often mixed with crack cocaine, known as speed balling. Heroin rapidly enters the brain, binding to opioid receptors involved in feelings of pain and pleasure as well as those controlling heart rate, sleeping, and breathing. 

What are the Effects of Consuming Heroin?

Using heroin produces a feeling of euphoria known as a “rush”. Common short-term effects include dry mouth, heaviness in the arms and legs, and diminished mental functioning. Prolonged use may result in collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, and issues with lung functioning.

What are the Effects of

 Consuming Heroin?

Using heroin produces a feeling of euphoria known as a “rush”. Common short-term effects include dry mouth, heaviness in the arms and legs, and diminished mental functioning. Prolonged use may result in collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, and issues with lung functioning.

Signs and Symptoms

  • Euphoria
  • Frequent respiratory infections
  • Mood Swings
  • Hostility toward others
  • Agitation and irritability
  • Periods of hyperactivity followed by periods of exhaustion
  • Wearing long pants and shirts, even in warm weather
  • Extreme itching

Statistics

263

people died from Heroin overdoses in Georgia in 2017.

152,000

people under the age of 25 suffer from Heroin use disorder.

38

Americans die every day resulting from Fentanyl abuse.

876

people under the age of 24 who died in 2019 from Fentanyl abuse.

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