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Heroin - Coggle Diagram
Heroin
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Ways to take drugs
- Smoking - Heat the heroin
- Injecting - dissolves in water
- Snorting - inhale into the body
Long-term effects
Mind
- Decision making disability
- irregular behavior
- Lack of control of stress
- tolerance
- uncontrollable drug-seeking
Body
- Collapse veins
- Liver and kidney disease
- insomnia
- diarrhea
- Infection of heart lining
Statistics & facts
- In 2020, heroin involved overdose rates decreased by 7% from 2019 to 2020. With more than 13,000 people died from drug overdose of heroin in the US. However heroin involved overdose deaths was nearly 7 times higher in 2020 than in 1999.
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Introduction
HEROIN
- Opiates, painkillers
- Abstracted from opium poppy (plant)
- Brownish white to brown
- Possession: max 1 year in jail & fines of $20,000 (California)
Citation
- Gateway Foundation., 29 Dec. 2021, www.gatewayfoundation.org/addiction-blog/environmental-impact-growing-drugs/#:~:text=Drug%20production%20. Accessed 24 Mar. 2023.
- “Heroin | FRANK.” Talktofrank.com, 2018, www.talktofrank.com/drug/heroin#how-it-looks-tastes-and-smells. Accessed 22 Mar. 2023.
- Heroin Overdose Data. 2023, www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/heroin/. Accessed 24 Mar. 2023.
- “Heroin Possession Laws in California | Eisner Gorin LLP.” Egattorneys.com, 2021, www.egattorneys.com/heroin-possession-laws-california. Accessed 24 Mar. 2023.
- on, Institute. “Heroin DrugFacts | National Institute on Drug Abuse.” National Institute on Drug Abuse, 16 Dec. 2022, nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/heroin. Accessed 24 Mar. 2023.
- on, Institute. “What Are the Long-Term Effects of Heroin Use? | National Institute on Drug Abuse.” National Institute on Drug Abuse, 13 Apr. 2021, nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/heroin/what-are-long-term-effects-heroin-use. Accessed 24 Mar. 2023.