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	in the know zone - heroin
		Pure heroin is a white powder with a bitter taste, but on the street it may vary in color from white to dark brown because of impurities left from the manufacturing process or the presence of additives.
		Black tar heroin, which is produced only in Mexico, may be sticky like roofing tar or hard like coal, and its color may vary from dark brown to fl.
		Black tar heroin is often sold on the street in its tar-like state at purities ranging from 20 to 80 percent.
	www.intheknowzone.com /heroin/what.htm (621 words)

	Black tar heroin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black tar heroin is a variety of heroin produced in Mexico.
		The effects of fl tar heroin are identical to those of powder heroin.
		Mexican brown powder heroin is typically produced from fl tar heroin by pulverizing it with lactose or another suitable cutting agent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_tar_heroin (630 words)

	Heroin
		Black tar heroin may be sticky, like roofing tar or hard like coal, and its color may vary from dark brown to fl.
		The typical heroin user today consumes more heroin than a typical user did just a decade ago, which is not surprising given the higher purity currently available at the street level.
		Evidence suggests that heroin snorting is widespread or increasing in those areas of the country where high-purity heroin is available, generally in the northeastern United States.
	www.streetdrugs.org /heroin2.htm (264 words)

	Black Tar Heroin Use Explains Lower HIV Levels in Injection Drug Users in the Western US (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The solution to this discrepancy is found in the distribution and use of fl tar heroin and is due to its unique chemical properties," said the study's lead author, Daniel H. Ciccarone, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the UCSF departments of family and community medicine and of anthropology, history and social medicine.
		In cities west of the Mississippi, fl tar heroin - a dark, gummy, resinous substance from Mexico - is the type of heroin predominately available.
		Study findings showed the percentage of IDUs infected with HIV was sharply lower in cities where fl tar heroin use predominated compared to cities where powder heroin use predominated, a pattern that was not mirrored in the percentages of HIV-infected gay men.
	www.hivandhepatitis.com /recent/idu/013004i.html (736 words)

	Drug Information Heroin
		Heroin is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the fl sticky substance known on the streets as "fl tar heroin." Although purer heroin is becoming more common, most street heroin is "cut" with other drugs or with substances such as sugar, starch, powdered milk or quinine.
		With heroin, the rush is usually accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, dry mouth, and a heavy feeling in the extremities, which may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and severe itching.
		Heroin overdose is a particular risk on the street, where the amount and purity of the drug cannot be accurately known.
	www.narconon.ca /Heroin.htm (1000 words)

	DEA, Drug Information, Heroin
		Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants.
		Heroin powder may vary in color from white to dark brown because of impurities left from the manufacturing process or the presence of additives.
		In 2005, the DEA seized 639 kgs of heroin.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea/concern/heroin.html (1223 words)

	HEROIN
		Most illicit heroin is distributed in powder form and may vary in color from white to dark brown because of impurities left from the manufacturing process or the presence of additives.
		Black tar heroin is often sold on the street in its tarlike state at purities ranging from 20 to 80 percent.
		Heroin is readily available in all major U.S. metropolitan areas but the sources and types of heroin available in parts of the United States vary from region to region.
	www.lansingpolice.com /site/sforces/sos/heroin.htm (1564 words)

	Heroin
		Heroin is a very powerful narcotic that comes from the dried "milk" of the opium poppy which also contains morphine and codeine.
		Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs known to man. Heroin is a central nervous system depressant.
		Black tar heroin physically appears to be a fl ball of tar.
	www.teennewhorizons.com /heroin.htm (978 words)

	Heroin - California Central District Drug Threat Assessment
		Heroin activity is high because the Central District is a major transshipment point for the distribution of fl tar heroin destined for cities primarily throughout the western United States.
		The average purity level for a gram of fl tar heroin in the Los Angeles area increased approximately 7 percent--to 40 percent--during the first quarter of FY2000 and remained at that level during the second quarter.
		Mexican fl tar and brown powdered heroin are processed from opium poppies grown along the spine of the Sierra Madre in western Mexico, from the tristate area of Sinaloa, Chihuahua, and Durango to the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
	www.usdoj.gov /ndic/pubs0/668/heroin.htm (2505 words)

	Narconon International presents heroin information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Injection continues to be the predominant method of heroin use among addicted users seeking treatment; however, researchers have observed a shift in heroin use patterns, from injection to sniffing and smoking.
		Heroin also produces profound degrees of tolerance and physical dependence, which are also powerful motivating factors for compulsive use and abuse.
		Heroin withdrawal is never fatal to otherwise healthy adults, but it can cause death to the fetus of a pregnant addict.
	www.narconon.org /druginfo/heroin_heroin.html (1911 words)

	IPRC Home -> Resources -> Drug Information -> Heroin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Heroin (diacetylmorphine) is a derivative of opium poppy and has been termed as a narcotic opiate.
		Heroin users sometimes use the drug in combination with other substances such as alcohol and cocaine; they claim this practice reduces the nervousness and depressant effect of heroin.
		Black coal or tar colored heroin is also found in some parts of the country.
	www.drugs.indiana.edu /resources/druginfo/drugs/HEROIN.html (1061 words)

	Heroin Addiction & Heroin Treatment Information from Narconon Arrowhead
		Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of the Asian poppy plant.
		One concern is that young heroin snorters may shift to needle injecting, because of increased tolerance, nasal soreness, or declining or unreliable purity.
		Among individuals who had ever used heroin in their lives, the proportion who had ever smoked, sniffed, or snorted heroin increased from 55 percent in 1994 to 82 percent in 1996.
	www.stopaddiction.com /narconon_drugs_heroin.html (1627 words)

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		fl tar heroin is notoriously dirty and this is another complication that could kill you if you don't seek treatment a.s.a.p.
		The Chronicle quoted an epidemiologist at the University of California at San Francisco as saying the most likely cause of the contamination of the fl tar heroin was dirt either from the opium farm where the raw drug originates or in material used to ``cut'', or dilute, the drug for street sale.
		Bivariate analyses indicated that subcutaneous or intramuscular injection of fl tar heroin was the only behavior consistent in drug users who developed wound botulism.
	balder.prohosting.com /~adhpage/arc_hi/heroin_contaminated_tar.txt (886 words)

	Public Health & Education \| HIV Prevalence Lower Among Black Tar Heroin Users Compared With White Powder Users, Study ...
		In addition, injecting fl tar heroin can cause venous sclerosis, which is a hardening of the veins and can lead to the loss of veins for injection sites.
		Therefore, fl tar heroin users are likely to move quickly from intravenous injection to either subcutaneous or intramuscular injections, which previous studies have demonstrated are less efficient for HIV transmission.
		The solution to this discrepancy is found in the distribution and use of fl tar heroin and is due to its unique chemical properties." Ciccarone added, "This data is valuable to public health authorities.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=21921 (441 words)

	Stop Drugs.org - Heroin
		Not only is heroin extremely addictive and dangerous, but as with cocaine and methamphetamines, addicts often resort to crimes such as burglary, grand theft, robbery, or prostitution to support their habits.
		The most popular form of heroin is a dark tar-like substance called fl tar, which is sold in small foil or cellophane packets or in small toy balloons.
		Paraphernalia for injecting heroin include hypodermic needles, small cotton balls used to strain the drug, and water and spoons or bottle caps used for "cooking" or liquefying the heroin.
	www.stopdrugs.org /heroin.html (377 words)

	Heroin - Facts&Figures - Drug Facts - ONDCP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Heroin is a highly addictive drug and is the most widely abused and most rapidly acting of the opiates.
		Another form of heroin, "fl tar" heroin, is primarily available in the western and southwestern U.S. This heroin, which is produced in Mexico, may be sticky like roofing tar or hard like coal, with its color varying from dark brown to fl.
		Heroin admissions represented 13.0% of the total drug/alcohol admissions to treatment during 1994 and 14.2% of the treatment admissions in 2004.
	www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov /drugfact/heroin (2078 words)

	What You Need to Know About Drugs: Heroin
		Some heroin is dark brown, and fl tar heroin is either sticky or hard and looks like roofing tar.
		Heroin is a very addictive drug and many people find it extremely difficult to stop using it - even after using heroin for just the first or second time.
		If heroin addicts suddenly try to stop using the drug or are unable to get another dose, they often develop withdrawal symptoms, like feelings of panic, sleeplessness, bad chills and sweats, seizures, or convulsions (severe shaking).
	kidshealth.org /kid/grow/drugs_alcohol/know_drugs_heroin.html (352 words)

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		Heroin is most effective when administered in a way that delivers it to the blood stream quickly: intravenous injection, subcutaneous injection, and smoking.
		Commonly, fl tar heroin is sold in small foil or cellophane packets or in small toy balloons.
		Nearly all of the heroin produced in Mexico is destined for U.S. distribution, and Mexico-based heroin continues to dominate the market in the western half of the United States.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~graziani (1148 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: Heroin
		Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring opiate extracted from the seedpod of certain varieties of poppies.
		Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
		Mexican fl tar heroin, however, is usually injected (once dissolved) or smoked because of its consistency.
	www.drugpolicy.org /drugbydrug/heroin (396 words)

	Heroin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heroin is also widely (and usually illegally) used as a powerful and addictive drug that produces intense euphoria, which often disappears with increasing tolerance.
		Most fl market heroin is highly impure due to contaminants left after refinement of opium into morphine which then remain in the final product; even if the final product is in the upper range of purity (80–99% pure), once it reaches the consumer, it typically has been cut multiple times.
		Heroin trafficking was virtually eliminated in the U.S. during World War II due to temporary trade disruptions caused by the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heroin (5144 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Black Tar Heroin
		White powder heroin (China White) has been replaced by the dreaded chiva, cheap fl tar heroin from Mexico, making the habit and all that it brings accessible to a much wider crowd.
		This is the grim backdrop for Steven Okazaki’s documentary Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street, a caustic look at five young addicts coping with lives that are a relentless pattern of fixing, whoring, stealing, rehabbing, and almost inevitably, fixing.
		The kids are innocent in a real sense, consigned to a private hell by a collusion of circumstances, from their own temperaments, to horrendous abuse, to the chance encounters with users whose personal charisma seduces them into the life.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /28/blacktarheroin.html (797 words)

	Heroin Addiction Treatment and Long Term Heroin Effects
		In fact, sniffing/snorting heroin is now the most widely reported means of taking heroin among users admitted for drug treatment in Newark, Chicago, and New York.
		Of course, sharing of injection equipment or fluids can lead to some of the most severe consequences of heroin abuse-infections with hepatitis B and C, HIV, and a host of other blood-borne viruses, which drug abusers can then pass on to their sexual partners and children.
		Why are heroin users at special risk for contracting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C? Heroin addicts are at risk for contracting HIV, hepatitis C, and other infectious diseases.
	www.starliterecovery.com /heroin.asp (3006 words)

	Heroin, D.A.R.E. Online, Millis, Mass. Free Screen Savers and Quizzes! Exciting Games, Getting Your Kids Involved!
		Heroin is produced from opium, which is obtained from seedpods of the oriental poppy.
		Heroin is one of the most widely feared drugs.
		Because people, who are high on heroin, or craving the next fix, don't use good judgment, they often share needles with other users.
	www.ddat.com /dare/heroin-info.htm (173 words)

	Wound botulism among black tar heroin users—Washington, 2003 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All four were regular, nonintravenous injectors of fl tar heroin (BTH), and one also snorted BTH.
		Anaerobic culture of a wound specimen from the third patient is pending, and a nasal aspirate from the fourth patient was negative.
		BTH might be contaminated during the "cutting" process through incorporation of sporeladen adulterants such as dirt or boot polish (3,4).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0906/is_37_52/ai_109023549 (765 words)

	Black tar heroin use explains lower HIV levels among injection drug users in the Western US
		Black tar heroin use explains lower HIV levels among injection drug users in the Western US Public release date: 26-Jan-2004
		Black tar heroin use explains lower HIV levels among injection drug users in the Western US UCSF researchers have found that use of fl tar heroin by injection drug users in West Coast cities accounts for a dramatically lower percentage of IDUs in these locations who are infected with HIV.
		"Black tar injectors rarely report using a single syringe more than five times, while powder heroin users claim many more uses out of their syringes," said Ciccarone.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-01/uoc--bth012604.php (807 words)

	El Paso Times - Agents, officers seize 1 pound of black tar heroin
		More than a pound of Mexican fl tar heroin was seized and four people were arrested Tuesday at a Columbus, N.M., house in what officials called the breakup of a large-scale drug-trafficking organization.
		Black tar heroin used to be of low purity, but purity has increased as the producers have gained experience, ICE experts said.
		Heroin is produced when morphine extracted from raw opium reacts with certain chemicals.
	www.elpasotimes.com /news/ci_4759176 (267 words)

	Heroin
		The first and most obvious danger of heroin use is addiction.
		The average heroin addict spends between $120 and $200 per day to maintain a heroin addiction.
		Even if the physical damage of heroin abuse were not devastating, the lifestyle changes that an addict has to undertake to keep up his or her habit are ruinous as well.
	www.ihs.org /body.cfm?id=584 (334 words)

	CNN.com - US - More than 200 arrested as Mexican heroin ring is busted, U.S. officials say - June 15, 2000
		Officials say the highly potent heroin, known as fl tar, was smuggled from Mexico across the California and Arizona borders to Los Angeles, where an ever-expanding distribution center shipped millions of dollars worth of the drug throughout the West, and more recently into several cities in the Midwest and East.
		The heroin was usually smuggled across the U.S. border in the dashboards or gas tanks of vehicles.
		Officials said the Nayarit heroin ring was named after the state in Mexico where the opium was cultivated and processed in labs into heroin for shipment to the U.S. market.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/US/06/15/heroin.bust (676 words)

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