HEROIN IN THE UK
Submitted by admin on Friday, 30 November 2007
* 200,000 heroin users
* 88,000 in treatment , of which 40,000 on methadone
* Heroin is an opiate which depresses the nervous system
* It can combat physical and emotional pain
* Users can feel warm, relaxed and detached
* Purity of street heroin varies, with a risk of fatal overdosing
* Unsafe injecting means risk of HIV, hepatitis, abscesses and ulcers
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