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Heroin Side Effects
Heroin has severe and drastic side effects. When heroin is used it affects the brain chemistry significantly, creating the risk for seizures, strokes, and even death. Repetitive use of heroin lead to not only physiologically addiction but physical addiction as well. The users body begins to need heroin in order to feel "normal" and not sick from heroin withdrawal. Additional side effects due to heroin use include tolerance, collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, liver disease, pulmonary complications, various types of pneumonia, a higher risk for contracting HIV, Hepatitis B and C and other viruses.
Heroin's side effects include but are not limited to:
- bacterial infections
- arthritis and other rheumatologic problems
- seizures
- strokes
- death
- physiologically and physical addiction
- tolerance
- collapsed veins
- infection of the heart lining and valves
- abscesses
- liver disease
- pulmonary complications
- various types of pneumonia
- a higher risk for contracting HIV, Hepatitis B and C and other viruses
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Heroin IV users place themselves at greater risk of contracting the HIV/AIDS virus.
Users often experience nausea and vomiting the first time they take heroin, especially after injecting.
Heroin is often combined or "cut" with sugar, starch, powdered milk, quinine, and, less often, with strychnine, to reduce purity and create more heroin to sell.
Heroin use during pregnancy is associated with low birth weight, stillbirths, placental abruptions, and sudden death syndrome.
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March 22, 2004
