what it is
how its used
effects
Facts & Statistics
Treatment and Recovery
100

What is heroin also known as? Name 2.

Brown sugar, Horse

100

What is it mixed with?

water 

100

What happens immediately?

drowsiness, pain relief, coma, overdose

100

Over the past year what is the percentage use of heroin of 8th graders?

0.2%

100

What is a medicine that can treat overdoes? 


 naloxone 

200

What it heroin made from?

morphine

200

What are ways it can be used?

needle, sniffed, smoked, snorted

200

what is a long term effect?

dependence, social, financial problems, collapsed veins, liver and kidney disease

200

Over the lifetime what is the percentage of use of heroin for ages 12 or older?

1.9%

200

Where is a place you can go to help? 


rehab

300

What is another drug heroin is another class of?

opioids

300

What do people combine it with?

 alcohol, cocaine(speedball)

300

What happens if injected?

 it’s a risk of HIV

300

True or false? Products containing heroin were once sold over the counter

true

300

What are two medicines that helps stop the use of heroin? 


 buprenorphine and methadone.

400

Is the percentage high or low of the misuse of heroin?

high

400

What happens what it enters the brain?

When heroin enters the brain, it attaches to molecules on cells known as opioid receptors.

400

what is a short term effect?

dry mouth, heavy feeling in the arms and legs, nausea and vomiting

400

True or false? Heroin comes in different color

true

400

What is a method that helps? 


cognitive-behavioral therapy

500

what plant does heroin come from?

poppy plants

500

What usually happens to impure heroin? 

 

 dissolves  

500

What happens to your muscles?

weakens 

500

What brand name is another name for heroin?

gucci

500

What is a medical procedure that can be done? 


 drug detoxification