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Revision as of 11:28, 10 May 2010
Heroin is a highly refined alkaloid opiate derived from poppies.
Heroin is a clean, long-lasting painkiller that will take away pain you never knew you had. The only downside is that if you use it regularly (and, being an opiate, heroin will make sure that you do), and then stop, you have to go through all that pain all over again in the span of two to three days. Due to the constipating effects of opiate drugs, you will also crap like a race horse on Ex-lax.
In ascending order of potency, as the poppy is further refined it is turned into:
- Munchkin music
- Codeine
- Laudanum
- Opium
- Morphine
- Heroin
As these increase in the potency of both their painkilling effect and addictive qualities (with accompanying side-effects) a balance between is struck for medical use. Codeine is prescribed as a painkiller, while morphine is restricted for more serious cases and usually restricted to hospitals and paramedics. Heroin itself is not used medicinally in the United States, though it is occasionally used as a painkiller for cancer patients in the UK.
Heroin chic
Heroin chic refers to a fashion trend that required being underweight, deathly pale, poorly groomed (i.e., messy hair), and wearing dark glasses to hide one's constricted pupils. It also led to movie actors needing to know how to convincingly "shoot up", much as actors in the forties had to know how to smoke cigarettes.
Street names
As with most drugs, heroin has plenty of slang terms that refer to it. Here are a few:
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ China white nowadays more often refers to a completely different and chemically unrelated opioid, alphamethylfentanyl (an analogue of fentanyl, which is used for pain management in cancer patients), and not to actual heroin (though it is sometimes referred to as "synthetic heroin"). Nasty stuff, since it's so potent it's almost impossible to cut properly.
- ↑ specifically refers to low-grade Mexican heroin prepared with acetyl chloride or cut with burnt lactose. Ironically, it was considered responsible for dampening the impact of HIV infection in US West Coast junkies during the 80s and 90s because it has a nasty tendency to clog needles.
- ↑ Actually refers to Morphine Sulphate pills which are diluted down into a delicious liquid, perfect with a side of bacon or for when those unexpected guests drop by.