I felt I was finished with blogging about heroin for a while and was going to move on to something else. However, today I was reading a few news articles about heroin and thought I would share a bit more information.
The first article was about a 17 year old girl in Texas who died from an overdose of "cheese". I had to continue reading to find out how someone could overdose on cheese to find out that "cheese" is a street name for heroin. Cheese is heroin that is cut with tylenol and typically snorted. Many people do not view this as dangerous or addictive because they are not shooting it up. The fact is, it IS heroin and heroin is very addictive no matter what form it comes in. The fact that cheese is cut with tylenol does not make it less addictive. As mentioned before, your body will build up a tolerance to the drug requiring you to use more and more each time to be able to achieve the same high.
The other article I read was about students using "liquid heroin". In this news story there had been an increased number of arrests and hospitalizations of high school and college students who had been using liquid heroin. This is a watered down version of heroin that students keep in eyedroppers or 1 inch tall glass containers with droppers that are about the width of a marker. The symptoms of liquid heroin are similar to other forms of heroin including constricted pupils, droopy eyelids, slow speech, slow reflexes, facial itching, dry mouth and lower blood pressure. Many of the kids taking this did not even know they were experiencing withdrawal symptoms because they did not view liquid heroin as addictive because they were drinking it and not injecting it. They knew their muscles were sore and their body ached and when they took more that feeling went away but they were not even associating it with withdrawal symptoms.
Remember heroin is heroin, no matter which way you ingest it into your body it is addictive, and most of the time a drug rehab will be necessary to help treat this addiction.
