Because of its activity the most prominent action would be that characteristic of heroin hydrochlorid.
This is due to the fact that Pennsylvania, like many other states, does not include heroin in the prohibited list of habit-forming drugs that can be supplied only on physicians’ prescriptions.
The activity of the “cough syrup,” it is needless to say, depends in the main on the drug which is more or less buried in the published formula: heroin hydrochlorid.
That this assertion is not in keeping with facts is evidenced by the recent report of a study on the sale and use of heroin made by the U.
Phillips,[1] in the article mentioned above, quotes Petty, who reports that in the last 150 cases of drug habit coming under his care he saw eight cases of heroin addiction.
In the treatment of the cough of phthisis, Glyco-Heroin (Smith) is used with the most gratifying results.
What would we think if morphin, quinin or even heroin were advertised in the same way?
For those who have opium, cocaine, veronal, or heroin to sell can always find a ready market in London and elsewhere.
Crack is far more addictive than heroin or barbiturates.
She lives in the inner city, where she cares for infants born of mothers who are heroin addicts.
And the rate of new heroin addiction, the most vicious threat of all, is decreasing rather than increasing.
My investigations soon showed me that heroin is three times as strong as morphine in its action, and for that reason its use sets up definite tolerance more quickly than any other form of opiate.
Morphine is the chief active principle, and codeine and heroin are the chief derivatives of morphine.
Though the general impression is otherwise, the users of heroin acquire the habit as quickly and as easily as if they took morphine.
All this despite the fact that heroin is three times stronger than morphine, and despite the fact that physicians know that anything which will do the work of an opiate is an opiate.
Codeine is one eighth the strength of morphine; heroin is three times as strong as morphine.
It may be that this matter of cost explains why the under-world has suddenly taken up heroin instead of cocaine.
Morphine, opium, and heroin appear in many cough-mixtures in habit-forming quantities and are offered for sale everywhere save in New York State, where recent legislation somewhat restricts the traffic.
So they began to prescribeheroin instead of morphine, and many a morphine addict was advised to substitute heroin.
Now, thanks chiefly to the medical profession, it is estimated that we have in our land several hundred thousand heroin addicts.
Luke said that what was on his mind was this: the office had that morning received the report of investigators who pointed out that, since the success of the cocaine raids, heroin had taken the place of the proscribed drug.
An overdose of heroin this time," muttered Kennedy.
The person who uses heroin usually powders the tablets and snuffs the powder up the nose," he answered.
In her haste to get where she could snuff the heroin she had forgotten a light wrap lying on her chair.
Instead, I was soon using six, eight, ten tablets of heroin a day.
Anyone can see that that woman has something on her mind besides the heroin habit.
By the way, Armstrong, I want you to write me out a note that I can use to get a hundred heroin tablets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heroin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
