1. Heroin
By Hailey Brey

2. What is heroin? Highly addictive Illegal drug
Made from the resin of poppy plants.

3. Popular street names
Big H
horse
smack
thunder
nose drops

4. Facts
first developed in 1937 by German scientists who were searching for a surgical painkiller. Heroin was exported to US and given the name “Dolophine” in Heroin can be vaporized (smoked), sniffed (snorted), or injected depending on the user.

5. continued..
because of you using heroin daily, maybe even more than once a day, you become addicted which leads to wanting it more and more. You may end up selling every valuable thing you have just to get money for the drugs you “need”.

6. What does heroin look like?
fine white powder
often found to be rose gray, brown, or black in color
coloring comes from additives which have been used to dilute it, which can include sugar, caffeine, and other substances.

7. International statistics
9.2 million use heroin
in 2007, 93% of the worlds supply came from afghanistan

8. Effects of heroin
you start thinking its your friend and thats its taking away the pain, but really its just you getting addicted to the substance and you soon begin to only think about drugs.

9. Immediate harm surge of sensation ; “a rush”
warm feeling of the skin, dry mouth
sometimes it can lead to vomiting or severe itching

10. Short-term effects “rush” slowed breathing clouded mental functioning
nausea and vomiting
drowsiness
coma or death
hypothermia (body temp lower than normal)

11. Long term effects bad breathe constipation cold sweats itching coma
insomnia
menstrual disturbance in women