Synonym: diacetylmorphine. Similar words: heroine, groin, heroic, heroism, asteroid, roil, roiled, adroit. Meaning: ['herəʊɪn] n. a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush.
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91. It would be like switching from heroin to methadone.
92. The local clinic has treated several cases of heroin withdrawal, a problem not seen here before 1997.
93. Over 90 percent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years.
94. Heroin acts as an ill-fitting key which can open the lock but can not then be withdrawn.
95. Alcohol thus resembles opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin, all of which target the endorphin system.
96. Dewey said that legalizing marijuana would encourage people to experiment with hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin.
97. Our use of this metaphor is not intended to imply that heroin use is a physical disease with viral or organic origins.
98. He was first indicted in 1989 on charges of importing and distributing heroin.
99. It would help, he says, if the United States cut military supplies to those commanders making money out of heroin.
100. The movie is daring in its unsentimental view of the heroin lifestyle.
101. Consequently, it was forecast that the prevalence of heroin use might also begin to fall from 1988-9.
102. Nineteen had used only one drug prior to heroin use, principally cannabis, the rest using a variety of drug combinations.
103. The crimes were petty stuff, small-time marijuana, heroin started coming in.
104. Evidence of widespread heroin use in the community built up rapidly during 1983-4.
105. What is heroin anyway, but a dark shadow, a temporary respite, smoked between one and a few hundred times?
106. Drug warriors frequently remind us that there are few cocaine or heroin addicts who did not smoke marijuana first.
107. This problem is exacerbated when dealing with an illegal activity such as heroin use, especially when some form of sampling is necessary.
108. Heroin use for these individuals meant a broadening of social contact.
109. Naltrexone keeps heroin from activating endorphin receptors, without activating them itself.
110. One of them, 26 year old Anthony Clarke, gave him an injection of heroin which proved fatal.
111. Furthermore(sentencedict.com), a temporary local heroin drought was created in the borough.
112. He was just seventeen when he began experimenting with drugs, shooting heroin into his arm.
113. He is alleged to have assaulted five named men at Kenway Tyres, Bridge of Don, by injecting them with heroin.
114. We are quick to warn our children about the dangers of alcohol, marijuana, heroin and cocaine.
115. Will the prevalence of heroin use increase, decline or become stable?
116. For example: - Confusion and frightening hallucinations - Unbalanced emotions or more serious mental disorders - First-time heroin users may be sick.
117. A painful bout with heroin addiction eventually led him to a spiritual rebirth. Sentencedict.com
118. Her suitcase had a false bottom, containing 2 kilos of heroin.
119. I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.
120. And morphine from opium is illegally converted to the highly addictive drug. heroin, widely abused in Western societies.