Heroin
COMMON & BRAND NAMES
Dope; Junk; Smack; H
EFFECTS CLASSIFICATION
Euphoric Depressant; Analgesic
CHEMICAL NAME
diacetylmorphine
DESCRIPTION
Heroin is a powerful opioid pain-killer that produces euphoria and blissful apathy. It is known for leading to addiction and difficult physical withdrawal symptoms.
GENERAL INFORMATION #
HISTORY #
SYRINGES & NEEDLES #
ASK EROWID ANSWERS #
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Getting Under the Skin of Junkies - New Scientist, March 7, 1998
Teenage Heroin Use? Real Drug Crisis Is Those Over 30 - LA Times, Feb 23, 1997
Doctor offers addicts a 'rapid' way off heroin - CNN Online
Why Cold Turkey is Molecular Murder - New Scientist, Nov 2, 1996
New York Through the Eye of a Needle - The Face, Oct 1992
ADDICTION & TREATMENT #
EXPERIENCES #
The Most Intense Nothingness, by Silver
No Time but Now, by Pharm
A Devotion, by Seven
Another Day as a Junky, by 100MillionYearTrip
Anxious to Get to Our Favorite Place to Shoot, by Carls McDonalds Jr.
BOOKS #
The Heroin User's Handbook, by Francis Moraes
Heroin: Its History and Lore, by Julian Durlacher
The Little Book of Heroin, by Francis Moraes
Diary of a Drug Fiend, by Aleister Crowley
The Politics of Heroin, by Alfred W. McCoy
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
SECONDARY RESOURCES #
Heroin - Wikipedia.org
Heroin - TripSit.me
Heroin - Dancesafe
Opiates - Paranoia
Heroin - Lycaeum
HEALTH #
Harm Reduction - DPA
Better Vein Care - Chicago Recovery Alliance
Cotton Fever - Heroin Helper
ADDICTION & TREATMENT #
Health Canada overturns ban on medical heroin - Globe & Mail, Sep 8 2016
Medical Heroin Works to Beat Opioid Addiction - MedPageToday.com, Aug 2009
How Bad is Heroin Withdrawal? - by Jara A. Krivanek, 1988
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES #
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Awash in overdoses, Seattle creates safe sites [...] - Washington Post, Jan 27 2017
Heroin surpasses painkillers as the leading cause of overdose deaths - Modern Healthcare, Dec 29 2016
Russian Harm Reduction Workers Under Attack - DrugReporter, Jul 6 2016
Here's why there are no 'good' or 'bad' drugs -- not even heroin - The Guardian, July 14 2016
Five Myths About Heroin - Washington Post, Mar 2016
Smack Madness - Krajicek D, April 2014
Heroin vaccine won't 'cure' what ails addicts - LATimes, Apr 15 2012
The Associated Press on the arrival of "deadly, ultra-pure heroin." - Slate.com, May 25 2010
NYC's Heroin How-To Handbook Not A Hit - NBC New York, Jan 4 2010
Increased Supply of Afghan Heroin Promises Overdoses and Death - UNIS, Dec 16 2004
U.K. Drug clinic 'cast aside duty of care' - Guardian UK, Oct 2004
The Opium Kings - Frontline, 1998
Drugs are Bad : The Drug War is Worse - NY Magazine, Feb 5 1996
AFGHANISTAN #
Afghan heroin's surge poses danger in U.S., Dec 26, 2006, LATimes
Deadly heroin overdoses could soar with surge in Afghan opium production, Oct 5 2006, United Nations
ADDICTION TREATMENT USE #
Prescribe heroin on the NHS, says nurse leader - Guardian [UK], Apr 26 2010
Heroin supply clinic 'cuts crime' - BBC, Sep 15 2009
Vancouver study claims benefits to prescribing heroin to addicts - Christian Science Monitor, Oct 30 2008
Switzerland's Liberal Drug Policy Seems To Work, Study Says, MNT, June 2006
USENET USEGROUPS #