Heroin

China White Heroin

Heroin is a white or brown powder or a black, china white. It’s an opioid drug made from morphine, a natural substance in the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant. It can be mix with water and injected with a needle. Heroin can also be smoke or snorted up the nose. So, all of these ways of taking heroin send it to the brain very quickly. This makes it very addictive.

Regular use of heroin can lead to tolerance. This means users need more and more drug to have the same effect.

Symptoms

If dependent users stop heroin, they have withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, diarrhoea and vomiting, and cold flashes with goose bumps.