(“Drugs Card…”).When inhaling heroin, the drug is put on tin foil and heated. After heating the foil, the heroin forms an oil that runs on the lines of the foil leaving a line of black residue. Once the oil has evaporated, the smoke is inhaled through the foil tube (“Drugs Card…”). The smoke enters the body slowly. By smoking heroin, the user can control the dosage easier. Heroin is usually smoked or snorted when it is inexpensive and pure (Falco 1). Injecting heroin happens when heroin is mixed in water with citric acid in a spoon. The heroin is then heated until it turns into a clear brown solution. The solution is then drawn up into a syringe and injected directly into a vein. Some users use a cigarette filter to make the heroin more pure (“Drugs Card…”). Injecting heroin is the quickest way of reaching an effect, as well as the most popular way of using heroin (Males 2). Sharing syringes makes injecting heroin the most dangerous way of using heroin. By sharing syringes and water, the user is exposed to Hepatitis B and C that can cause viral infections of the liver, and the HIV virus that can lead to the AIDS virus (United Kingdom).Heroin affects users in physical and mental ways. The user receives a pleasurable experience the first moments using heroin, opposed to the moments after using it. When a user first uses heroin, the user feels that heroin gives a sense of warmth and well-being. Heroin also relaxes the user, creating a feeling as if they were wrapped up in cotton wool. When the user does heroin, nothing matters (United Kingdom).After using heroin, the user will more than likely become nauseous and vomit. Afterwards, the user experiences a period where the user is conscious but looks asleep. The user’s breathing and heart rate decreases. After this period passes, the user is capable of interacting normally; thinking that past experience was like a...
