Heroin is an opiate drug that is synthesized from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant. heroin can be injected, snorted/sniffed, or smoked. Injecting is the use of a needle to administer the drug directly into the bloodstream. Snorting is inhaling heroin powder through the nose, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. Smoking is inhaling heroin smoke into the lungs. All three methods of administering heroin can lead to addiction and other severe health problems. After a user is injected with heroin, they begin to feel a type of rush. Also once they become frequent users, their bodies build up a tolerance.t like any form of medicine, the body gets used to the drug and it works less. Many users then decide to use more and more heroin until their body just can’t take it. Intravenous heroin use is complicated by other issues such as the sharing of contaminated needles, the spread of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and toxic reactions to heroin impurities. Other medical complications that may arise due to heroin use include collapsed veins, abscesses, and spontaneous abortion. Pneumonia may result from the poor health condition of the abuser, as well as from heroin's depressing effects on respiration. Heroin addiction can remove an otherwise healthy and contributing member from society, and may lead to severe disability and eventually death. Many end up having to go to the hospital
or worse end up dying after being in a coma. Not only are the users of heroin damaging their insides. They are also damaging their outer body. Their physical appearance begins to diminish and then that causes problems between families. Family members don’t really recognize them. I chose to use the poem miss heroin because it talks about heroin and how it makes people feel and the effects on people who use heroin. Heroin takes families and breaks them up. According to the Monitoring the Future survey,...