Breton
Breton Celtic language spoken in Brittany, on the
nw coast of France. It is a descendant of British, an old Celtic language, and is closely related to Welsh. Its
c.500,000 users usually also speak French, which is rapidly replacing it.
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Heroin sniffing as self-regulation among injecting and non-injecting heroin users
Magazine article from: Journal of Drug Issues; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...of administration among three subgroups who sniff heroin: those who had never injected, those who were also...open-ended interviews with 23 people who combined heroin injecting with heroin sniffing, recruited from a parallel component of...
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 "Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)")
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HEROIN MAKES LETHAL RETURN
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 5/17/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...his 26-year-old girlfriend injecting heroin. It is 10:46 a.m. on a Tuesday...Valley: Most local police departments say heroin is popping up more often, and they...they were stealing to support a daily heroin habit. "Heroin?" thought Aurora Lt...
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 "The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)")
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HEROIN MAKING DEADLY COMEBACK.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 5/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...all but one death tentatively linked to heroin. Some fear that signals a sudden worsening of a heroin problem that first re-emerged locally...and medical professionals say more potent heroin began manifesting itself in local emergency...
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Heroin's hold: how two teens put their lives back together.(YOUR CHOICES)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...student when she first tried a type of heroin called cheese. "I tried [it] because...she recalls. Soon, Isabelle was buying heroin every weekend. "I started to do it before...was doing it every day," she says. "Heroin made me feel as if I was on top of the...
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Heroin makes a comeback Drug's new, purer form can be lethal, officials warn.(Metro)
Newspaper article from: The Florida Times Union; 10/6/1997; ; 700+ words
; A new, purer form of heroin is making its way through Florida...re worried about is when the pure heroin comes here, it's snortable and smokable...can get the same high from snorting heroin. The purity of heroin now averages...
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Heroin Traffic Shifts to the West; Mexican, Asian Smugglers Dominate; Seizures Rise Dramatically
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/4/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...Pacific region the chief avenue for heroin to enter the United States, according to federal drug officials. Most heroin seized nationwide by the Drug Enforcement...officials said they seize the most heroin in the Pacific region. Faced with...
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Heroin: abuse and addiction.
Newspaper article from: Pamphlet by: National Institute on Drug Abuse; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; from the director Heroin is a highly addictive drug, and its...billions of dollars each year. Although heroin abuse has trended downward during the...age youth, and the glamorization of heroin in music and films make it imperative...
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Heroin Abuse and Addiction.(Pamphlet)
Newspaper article from: Pamphlet by: National Institute on Drug Abuse; 10/1/1997; 700+ words
; What is heroin? Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted...
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Heroin Addiction Cuts Across All Social Boundaries, Caron Foundation Study Reports.
Business Wire; 5/16/2001; 700+ words
; ...HealthWire)--May 16, 2001 An epidemic of heroin use over the past five years crosses generational...plague all areas of American culture. Heroin, once a drug primarily associated with...adolescents. These findings are included in "Heroin: Challenge for the 21st Century," a...
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Heroin supply said to increase
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/17/1991; ; 700+ words
; Heroin is increasingly available on Boston streets...a marked increase in the availability of heroin," said Stephen Morreale, special agent...Administration office in Boston. "The heroin availability has made us sit up and take...
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heroin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
heroin , opiate drug synthesized from morphine...prohibited and it is not used medically, heroin predominates in illicit narcotics traffic...addiction and drug abuse . Effects and Addiction Heroin is a central nervous system depressant that...
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Slang and Jargon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...a remarkable durability such as some of those for heroin (trademarked Heroin in Germany, 1898) — a narcotic that has...principle of marijuana; procaine as cocaine) big H heroin big C cocaine blank nonpsychoactive powder sold as...
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Drugs and Narcotics
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...which provide the raw material for the heroin and hashish that form the staple of the...political ambitions. With a metric ton of heroin worth between $100 million and $600...such as opiates (e.g., morphine, heroin, and other opium derivatives) and hashish...
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Narcotic
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
...disposition. Morphine, codeine, and heroin are the main drugs of abuse in the narcotic...emotional instability, and irritability. Heroin is an illegal and highly addictive narcotic...the fastest action on brain receptors. Heroin is a semi-synthetic derivate of morphine...
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Methadone
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...powerful narcotic drug in the same class as heroin. This class is known as the opioids...of the brain that bind opiates such as heroin. The blocking of these receptors leads...24 hours, even if a person addicted to heroin takes heroin after the administration...
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