Heroin Addiction

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Heroin Addiction
Heroin addicts have the psychological dependence on heroin that leads them into the state of self-destruction and the possibility that may lead to death by the extreme use of heroin addiction. Never estimate the poppy flower for its power that withholds the fiend for enslavement of great happiness and numbness it may contain for many centuries. The heroin addiction nation is a self numbing injection and dry approach to have the mind under the state of the greatest feeling of great happiness leaving the pain behind under the spell of heroin. Heroin comes in many forms for addicts to enjoy in their own way. They come in powder and rock like form also combines with other narcotics. The snorting form for heroin is not likely effective for a great high to needle injection. Also the smoking of heroin is putting the rock heroin on the foil, lighting the foil underneath for the heroin to evaporate into smoke and the other rolled foil made as a tube used for smoking the heroin fume to get high and also called chasing the dragon. And now the injection the number one addicts use the quick fix and the royal highness to the external world of great happiness to never feel pain to be spellbound to heroin. The injection habit comes with a price of catching Hepatitis and HIV also the more the injection to ones vein may cause the vein to collapse, making users approach to other veins that are too dangerous to use but attempt to get a hit of bliss. The drug that is a way to take the easy way out of emotion and physical pain away for better greater feeling once injected. This flower can take everything one own and love away with the push of the needle. The fear of pain has a cure but comes with the price of becoming a slave to heroin...

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... as going into the state of cold turkey. This is when the body goes into a dope sickness that will go into pain that is sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, tremors in the body and stomach pain are present, is not a happy site and situation to be in, but worth fighting for to never be enslave to heroin. The methadone is slightly related to heroin giving a lightly high feeling and is supervise by the doctor to help users recover by lowering the dosage, if the users are willing to make progress with recovery. The never ever happy ending of heroin war is to never going to disappear on the face of the planet. The psychological dependence on heroin brings the worse in a human life with a push of the needle gives great pleasure. The never ending battle of addiction and trafficking would end at the roots of the poppy fields that are cropped for every junkies need.

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