Identification
A street name for heroin that begins with the letter "S" and ends with the letter "K".
What is Smack?
The THREE most common ways to abuse heroin.
What are injecting, smoking, and sniffing?
Symptoms of this includes restlessness, bone and muscle pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, etc.
What is Withdrawal?
What are Short-Term Effects?
The name for the list below encompassing effects of heroin usage over time.
*criminal charges
*death
*mental illnesses
*Coma
*Cardiovascular complications
What are Long-Term Effects?
The type of PLANT that provides seed pods containing a natural substance called morphine for heroin to be produced.
What are poppy plants?
In 2020, approximately 13,000 people died from an overdose involving this drug.
What is Heroin?
An addict has a much higher chance of dying if he or she leaves THIS, as the risk of death is higher for newly clean heroin addicts.
What is Rehab/Treatment?
Most of the fatalities associated with heroin overdoses are this gender.
What is Male?
The two main forms of treatment for heroin abusers.
What are behavioral and medicinal?
The single letter of the alphabet that heroin is known by in the "streets".
What is H?
This age group has about 0.2% of the population reporting heroin abuse within the last 12 months.
What are teens?
This is the number of times that it takes to get addicted to heroin.
What is One?
Some 90% of the world’s heroin comes from opium grown in just a few provinces in this country. 380 tons of heroin are produced from these poppies and exported all over the world.
What is Afghanistan?
This can help in the detoxification stage of rehab in order to lessen the pains of cravings and withdrawal.
What are medicinal drugs?
What type of drug is heroin?
What is an opioid drug?
Most people die from heroin overdoses when their body forgets to do this.
What is breathe?
The name for the change in behavior, such as secretiveness and irresponsibility, and the physical change, such as weight loss, excessive tiredness, nausea, and lethargic movements. You should always be on the lookout for these things.
What are Signs/Symptoms?
The links used to research the drug.
*https://casapalmera.com/blog/nicknames-street-names-and-slang-for-heroin/
*https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/heroin
*https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/tocta/5.Heroin.pdf
What is Sources?
The phone number 1-800-662-4357.
What is national assistance for drug abuse.