HEROINAlso known as diamorphine, H, Horse,

Smack, Isda, Cheese, Chip, Crank, Dirt, Old Steve, Dr. Feelgood, Poison,

Pure, Bart Simpson, Brown Sugar, Whiteboy, Mexican Brown (including

many more)

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What is it?

Made out of morphine, a substance extracted from the seed of an opium poppy

Could either appear as white or brown powder, or as a black substance, known as ‘black tar heroin’

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Ways to Inject it

Snorting (sniffing)Skin Popping (injecting it under skin)Muscling (injecting it into a muscle)Mainlining (injecting into vein)

Physical Effects

When user stops taking Heroin, they suffer…

-Body Aches

-Diahhrea

-Muscle Cramps

-Nausea

MORE Physical Effects

DrowsinessDeliriumDisorientationHypotensionHypoventilationDry MouthVomiting

**Many more but not listing them

Mental & Emotional Effects

JoyRelief

Addict’s goal is trying to get more Heroin – Leading to Theft and Prostitution to earn MONEY

Legal Consequences

Person spent only three weeks in jail Bail is 10,000 dollars

Illegal to manufacture Heroin without a licence in…

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Iran, India, the Netherlands, United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Swaziland

WHY USE IT?

Provides “joy” and “relief”**

**We don’t have a lot of info.

Statistics

Duration of use:In the past 7 days; Men – 3.3% Women –

4.0%In the past month; Men – 3.9% Women –

4.4 %In the past year; Men – 5.1% Women –

7.1%

**Percentage of people arrested for various crimes who admitted Heroin use

Making it Personal

Troy’s father left him when he was born, his mom used drugs when he was little, but she didn’t do drugs when he went to school. Drugs were everywhere around him – he also did marijuana because of his cousin, and his friends were involved; many of who injected heroin. Troy kept snorting it to feel the ‘joy’ and ‘relief’. It didn’t work, so his friend lent him needles so that he could inject it. When he was 19, he was arrested for having heroin. He would’ve faced four years in jail, but they offered him to a probation officer to take a drug test every week. He took a rehabilitation and he worked out with the program. He was off of Heroin.

Christian WorldView Perspective

We think that God might not approve of heroin. Christians shouldn’t be using it because if we would like ‘joy’ or ‘relief’, we should pray to God to help us with our difficulties. We shouldn’t be taking drugs to feel happy.

Christian WorldView w/ the Bible

“19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Why this verse? We have to honor our body, don’t we? Taking heroin is a way of destroying it. WE WERE BOUGHT AT A PRICE.

Bibliography

The facts about HEROIN - Suzanne LeVert

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/heroin.htmlWorldBook

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