Heroin

How Can You Tell If Someone is Under the Influence of Heroin?

How Can You Tell If Someone is Under the Influence of Heroin?

Many people suffer from heroin addiction while living seemingly normal lives, despite the fact that the drug is going to be in their system almost constantly for them to be able to function normally. While the signs of drug abuse can go unnoticed, it helps to keep...

Common Behaviors Associated with Heroin Addiction

Common Behaviors Associated with Heroin Addiction

Heroin and other opioid painkillers like it are at the heart of America's drug abuse and overdose epidemic. However, there's even more to addiction than fatalities and grim statistics. As people suffer from addiction, they often engage in risky or otherwise...

How Can You Tell if Someone Is Using Heroin?

How Can You Tell if Someone Is Using Heroin?

Heroin is one of the most addictive substances plaguing the United States. As with many addictive drugs, heroin started as a a solution to extreme pain. Pain relief from drugs like heroin come with other effects that ultimately lead to them being abused...

What Happens at Heroin Rehab?

What Happens at Heroin Rehab?

Heroin is used by an estimated 494,000 people in the United States and was linked to over 15,000 overdose deaths in 2017. Heroin is a highly addictive illicit opioid that can be difficult to stop using without professional help. A heroin rehab center offers drug...

Heroin and Pregnancy: What to Do If You’re Addicted

Heroin and Pregnancy: What to Do If You’re Addicted

Because heroin is one of the most widely abused drugs in the country, many women find themselves addicted to heroin after they become pregnant. While being addicted to heroin at any point is never a good thing, it’s especially unfortunate when the life of an unborn...

What Are Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Heroin on the Brain?

What Are Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Heroin on the Brain?

Heroin interacts with the brain in ways that trigger intense euphoria and pleasure. However, heroin also has many negative short- and long-term effects on brain function and can lead to addictions severe enough to put users at risk for a deadly drug overdose. Knowing...

Are We Really Getting a Handle on Heroin?

Are We Really Getting a Handle on Heroin?

Wander through the shadows of any urban community or rural setting and locating someone with a heroin problem isn’t that hard to find. In fact, America’s mainstream population is afflicted by the disease of opioid addiction and it isn’t just affecting the people who...

Heroin Abuse & Addiction Signs, Side Effects, & Withdrawal Symptoms

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports that 948 000 Americans used heroin in the year preceding 2016, and this is only the use that was reported. Young adults are particularly susceptible to this trend and usage appears to be on the rise in that age...

7 Signs Someone is on Heroin

As of 2016, 948,000 people in the US reported using heroin in the past year, and many of these were young adults aged 18-25, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.Perhaps even more frightening is that the number of first-time users doubled between 2006 and...