Heroin Addiction - An Opium Euphoria
By David Mark -
Imagine being prescribed heroin as a way of getting off morphine or giving your child heroin based cough syrup. Sounds far fetched? Think again. From 1898 to 1910 heroin was sold by Bayer, a German pharmaceutical company to the public as a way of taking someone off of their morphine addiction and [...]
Heroin Addiction - Simple Facts on Helping a Heroin Addict
By Paula Dewar -
Giving The Heroin Addict Hope, That A Successful Drug Rehab Can Help Them
Hope, starts with you. I once had a family member addicted to heroin. Today she is no longer an addict. Many families in the UK are no strangers to heroin misuse. Although 75% of Heroin addicts in Northern Ireland, last [...]
Heroin Addiction
By Art Coburn -
What does it mean to be a heroin addict? Well to the majority of society it basically means you are the scum of the earth. What does a drug addict look like? When your average person from society pictures a heroin addict they picture a person dressed in dirty clothes and in [...]
Heroin Addiction
By David Snape -
Creating a powerful addiction with heroin is relatively easy. The best indicator of an addiction is when a person has reached a point where there is compulsion to use drugs despite adverse consequences.
Heroin is particularly fast acting when snorted, injected or smoked. It quickly floods the user’s brain with a euphoric feeling. [...]
A Brief History of Heroin in America
By Ryan Bombard
In the late 1800s, opium was a popular, commonly available drug. Drug users frequented opium dens which dotted the ‘Wild West’ region of America. It was smuggled in and sold by Chinese immigrants who came here to work on the railroads.
There is a typical picture of the western cowboy drowning himself in whiskey [...]
Heroin Withdrawal New Treatments
By Jeremy Berger
Heroin use among young folks has been climbing at alarming rates over the past few years. Heroin is not just a drug found on skid row; instead it is right in almost every school system, with more and more young students experiencing heroin withdrawals requiring a need for new treatments.
Traditional treatments have not [...]
The Truth About Heroin Addiction
By Carlo Rinaudo
Heroin addiction is a disease that affects the user and anyone that loves the person caught in the trap of heroin addiction. The truth about heroin addiction is that it will produce both psychological and physical dependence. It is characterized by an increase in tolerance, meaning a person must use more of the [...]