Can any parent even begin to imagine the horror’s of what it would be like to have a child taking heroin? How could any parent prevent such a dreadful nightmare?
Mankind has sought retreat from his on concious mind since grapes were crushed if not longer. Opiates are no different from any other chemical in that it is an escape from concious thought. The euphoric release into an intoxicated world is just simply to over powering for most human beings to resist. Time after time the story of heroin addicts has been recounted and the path traveled is always the same.
Answer’s are always something like; “the simple answer is I feel nothing else I have ever experienced compares in the slightest, nothing in my life seems worth stopping for, there is no light at the end of the tunnel, it's just too hard to stop”. The path of heroin addiction is precisely the same and predictable every single time a human steps into the abyss.
This edition of Columbia Family addiction is featuring a slide show depicting opium and heroin to provide Columbia SC parents with a small tool in our war on drugs and is compliments from About.com.
Heroin is a highly addictive drug, and its use is a serious problem in the United States. Recent studies suggest a shift from injecting heroin to snorting or smoking because of increased purity and the misconception that these forms of use will not lead to addiction. Heroin street names are; Smack, H, Ska, Junk, Big H, Blacktar, Brown sugar, Dope, Horse, Junk, Mud, and Skag. Heroin is a highly addictive drug that is processed from morphine, which comes from the seed pod of the opium Asian poppy plant. It is a depressant that inhibits the central nervous system and long term use is typically quite deadly.
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