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Smoking Heroin Facts

Smoking Heroin

Heroin is a Schedule 1 controlled substance, which means it has a high potential for abuse and has no medicinal purposes. There are several ways to ingest heroin and people get more creative all the time. The most popular or well-known route of administration for heroin is injecting it. However, smoking heroin is another way of ingesting the drug. Heroin can cause respiratory failure and death. It does cause a euphoric feeling along with nausea and sweating.

Smoking heroin facts

Many people start smoking heroin because they think it is safer than injecting it. Although you do avoid some risk associated with shooting it, such as contracting HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B and C from sharing needles and works (supplies used in injecting), the addiction potential is still present. Anyone who uses heroin, whether they are shooting, smoking, or snorting it runs the risk of becoming addicted to it. Once addicted, the user must consume the drug several times per day to keep high and avoid withdrawal. As with any drug, quality is not continuous. Heroin is cut with other drugs and substances that can make a person sick. Tolerance is also part of smoking heroin. Over time, a person eventually needs more and more of the same amount to produce the same high. Withdrawal symptoms are vomiting, nausea, insomnia, intense body pain and aches, mood changes, diarrhea, intense cravings, and more symptoms that last several days.

People who start out using heroin by smoking it will likely end up shooting the drug. Although there are people who can use it as a recreational drug, this is very difficult because of the way heroin metabolizes in your body. It creates dependence rapidly, and while every person is different, this can occur after as little as three days solid use. Smoking heroin chasing the dragon is just as dangerous as shooting it, if not more dangerous because people think that it is safer. There is no safe use.

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