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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121. He'd overdosed on heroin.
122. He accepted that legalisation would not necessarily greatly increase addiction to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
123. Its high rise flats are steeped in monotonous poverty: families survive on next to nothing, heroin is a hard currency.
124. Mr Mackie claimed he had later progressed to heroin and that Murray had again injected the drug to him.
125. People need help to come off hard drugs like heroin and cocaine.
126. But hardly any kids had taken hard drugs like heroin and cocaine.
127. We were dismayed to discover that our daughter Louise had started experimenting with heroin.
128. If heroin use proves relatively harmless to all concerned then we should advocate legal reform and controlled availability.
129. Most experts agree that drugs like heroin can cause permanent brain damage.
130. Two further quantities of heroin were found at his home, amounting to 26 grammes.
131. At 15, he started to dabble with heroin and within 12 months he was using it daily.
132. After his wife left him, Calvin says, he consoled himself with heroin.
133. Melendez's gang made up to $10 million a month peddling heroin.
134. The appellant was found in possession of 1.03 grammes of heroin.
135. The gang earned as much as $10 million a month peddling heroin and cocaine.
136. There was this other guy who was either an aging rocker or a heroin addict, or both.
137. Brian Mounsey, from Liverpool, admitted possessing two kilos of heroin when he appeared before a court in Bangkok.
138. Casual use among cocaine and heroin users has also fallen.
139. The man they wanted was a New Zealand-born heroin tsar, sought in a dozen countries but slippery as an eel.
140. The early 1980s witnessed a radical change in patterns of heroin taking, alongside the global increase.
141. Prices of cocaine, crack and heroin were fairly stable in 1989 and 1990.
142. He was busted for possession of heroin in 1952, landing two years in a California state prison.
143. He said in a 1994 interview that as prime minister he rejected a military plan to sell heroin to finance covert operations.
144. If you can avoid heroin addiction and motorcycle accidents, you might have a swell time.
145. Four years ago, his sister Margaret died after taking a heroin overdose.
146. Obviously, because the possession of heroin is illegal, users must maintain a low profile for fear of legal sanctions.
147. Police found the heroin during a routine inspection of a ship.
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148. Similarly, the unemployed found the focus of their social circle also becoming centred on heroin.
149. We mentioned in the Introduction that earlier sociological studies of deviant behaviour provide notes of caution about investigating phenomena like heroin use.
150. He overdosed on heroin.