What is Heroin?
This illegal opioid is made from morphine and can appear as a white powder or black sticky substance.
What is heroin?
This intense but short-lived feeling is what many users chase when using heroin.
What is euphoria?
Heroin is known for being addictive after this many uses.
What is just a few?
During an overdose, this system slows or stops, leading to death if untreated.
What is the respiratory system?
This is the general term for a program or medicine used to help someone stop using heroin.
What is treatment?
This plant is the natural source of morphine, which is used to make heroin.
What is the opium poppy?
Heroin slows down this essential body function, which can lead to overdose.
What is breathing?
This condition occurs when the body becomes dependent on heroin to feel normal.
What is physical addiction?
his dangerous synthetic opioid is often mixed with heroin, increasing overdose risk.
What is fentanyl?
This medication, often taken daily, reduces cravings and withdrawal symptoms for heroin users.
What is methadone?
Heroin belongs to this U.S. drug classification, meaning it has high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use.
What is Schedule I?
Repeated heroin injection can cause these blood vessels to collapse.
What are veins?
A person withdrawing from heroin might feel muscle aches, chills, and this symptom that often happens at night.
What is insomnia?
This emergency drug can reverse the effects of a heroin overdose if given in time.
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
Schools often use this type of program to educate students before drug use begins.
What are prevention programs?
These are three common ways heroin is used recreationally.
What are injecting, snorting, and smoking?
These two major organs can be damaged after long-term heroin use.
What are the liver and kidneys?
Withdrawal symptoms can begin this soon after the last dose.
What is 6 to 12 hours?
True or False: Heroin overdoses always happen immediately.
What is false?
Lack of money, fear of judgment, or no nearby clinics are all examples of this barrier.
What are barriers to treatment?
This is the term for the street version of heroin that is dark and sticky.
What is black tar heroin?
Chronic heroin use can lead to this mental health condition that involves deep sadness and lack of energy.
What is depression?
These two symptoms make heroin withdrawal extremely difficult to go through.
What are intense cravings and vomiting?
In 2021, heroin was involved in this approximate percentage of opioid-related deaths. (Guess within 10% of answer).
What is 20%?
Only this estimated percentage of people with opioid addiction actually receive help (Guess within 10%).
What is 10%?