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Heroin in sentence

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His mother had died from a heroin overdose.
You'd think you'd be singing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" out in the majesty of the ocean, not songs about heroin addiction in New York City.
Eighty to 90 percent of the world's poppy, opium and heroin, comes out of Afghanistan.
You don't probably expect the librarian to come running out from behind the reference desk with Narcan, ready to revive someone overdosing on heroin or fentanyl.
And so inside the neighborhood, our library is nestled inside of a park, which has unfortunately garnered a reputation for being a place to find and use drugs, especially heroin, out in the open, putting us and the community in direct contact with the drug trade and use on a daily basis.
People from Arkansas, Ohio, South Carolina, Alabama coming to Philadelphia for cheap heroin.
Before I was born, both of my parents began using heroin.
When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and the most talented artist I knew was my mother, but my mother was addicted to heroin.
It was easier to get cannabis, heroin and cocaine, faster even, in the prison than outside the prison.
I mean, look, the markets in marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine are global commodities markets just like the global markets in alcohol, tobacco, coffee, sugar, and so many other things.
Look at Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, where people who have been addicted to heroin for many years and repeatedly tried to quit and failed can get pharmaceutical heroin and helping services in medical clinics, and the results are in: Illegal drug abuse and disease and overdoses and crime and arrests all go down, health and well-being improve, taxpayers benefit, and many drug users even put their addictions behind them.
When researchers ask heroin addicts what's the toughest drug to quit, most say cigarettes.
There's other people who have kids, one's addicted to alcohol, the other one's addicted to cocaine or heroin, and they ask themselves the question: Why does this kid get to take one step at a time and try to get better and that one's got to deal with jail and police and criminals all the time?
This is the heroin strategy.
Imagine developing a plan, you have one minister at one table and a heroin dealer at the other table, coming up with a way in which the church can help the entire community.
We think, because there are chemical hooks in heroin, as you took it for a while, your body would become dependent on those hooks, you'd start to physically need them, and at the end of those 20 days, you'd all be heroin addicts.
Diamorphine is heroin.
It's actually much better heroin than you're going to buy on the streets, because the stuff you buy from a drug dealer is contaminated.
Actually, very little of it is heroin, whereas the stuff you get from the doctor is medically pure.
There are loads of people in this room, you may not realize it, you've taken quite a lot of heroin.
You get a rat and you put it in a cage, and you give it two water bottles: One is just water, and the other is water laced with either heroin or cocaine.
In Vietnam, 20 percent of all American troops were using loads of heroin, and if you look at the news reports from the time, they were really worried, because they thought, my God, we're going to have hundreds of thousands of junkies on the streets of the United States when the war ends; it made total sense.
One percent of the population was addicted to heroin, which is kind of mind-blowing, and every year, they tried the American way more and more.
And one day, the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition got together, and basically said, look, we can't go on with a country where we're having ever more people becoming heroin addicts.
During 2014 alone, 28,000 people died of drug overdoses associated with prescription drugs and heroin.
She was raised primarily by her extended family, because her own mother had a heroin addiction.
"I feel skinny, but I'm not." "I'm 23, and a recovering meth and heroin addict, and feel absolutely blessed to still be alive."
No, it's a little robot on heroin or something, I think.
I had to clean the park, and it was full of empty heroin envelopes, and the kids had to play there."
And when I look up, he's pointing at his new teeth that he was able to get after getting a referral from the program, but he was able to get them to replace the old teeth that he lost as a result of years of heroin addiction.
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