Heroin Video PSA
Public domain public service announcement video from the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant. Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. Street names for heroin include “smack,” “H,” “skag,” and “junk.” Other names may refer to types of heroin produced in a specific geographical area, such as “Mexican black tar.” Heroin can be used in a variety of ways, depending on user preference and the purity of the drug. Heroin can be injected into a vein (“mainlining”), injected into a muscle, smoked in a water pipe or standard pipe, mixed in a marijuana joint or regular cigarette, inhaled as smoke through a straw, known as “chasing the dragon,” snorted as powder via the nose. What are its short-term effects? The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours.After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria (“rush”) accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following this initial euphoria, the user goes “on the nod,” an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Other effects included slowed and slurred speech, slow gait, constricted pupils, droopy eyelids, impaired night vision, vomiting, constipation. What are its long-term effects? Long-term effects of heroin …
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Video Rating: 5 / 5
July 26th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
My best friend is a recovering drug addict (almost 3 years clean) he just recently found out his brother is addicted to heroin. It’s such a horrible drug, please keep all those suffering from addiction in your mind.
July 26th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Hey everyone, I too am an opiate addict. I was using IV heroin everyday for over 4 years. I got on suboxone at first without insurance and had to pay $7 per pill for 90 pills per month plus Dr. fees, which was more than $1000 a month just to stay clean. I’ve since gotten great insurance which allows me to get all my suboxone for free and I have a lot of extra suboxone scripts left over. I am willing to help anybody out who wants to get clean but doesn’t have the funds to do it. Message me!!
July 26th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
i hope not to be rodney …..
July 26th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
umm ok
July 26th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
rip man
July 26th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
yes drugs are bad and all but if it wasn’t for these people abusing them first hand than we non-users wouldn’t know the severity of them. drugs are a valuable experience. the addiction survivors are among the strongest souls on earth.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
after years of addiction,i now am free of heroin,not an easy thing to do.i saw many people die from it.i lost everything,i kept getting up.now 14 years off smack,i wonder if it was worth it.
July 26th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
@bldtraffic I hear you, man. Was hooked for about five years, been off it for 10 now.
Nothing like the feeling of lost time, lost life, being ten years behind your friends. That’s what I did. Pretty much decimated myself economically, and to a large extent spiritually.
People say I was strong to get off, but there’s still a part of me which hates myself in certain moments of silence, when there’s no-one else around but me and the silent memories that still haunt my mind…
Peace.
July 26th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
@ Zooey…
Drugs have NEVER been “cool”. (OK, maybe Pot and Acid in the 60″s). But I assure you there is nothing cool about opiate withdrawals (vomiting, cramps so bad they literally throw you out of bed, nausea, diarrhea, sweats, chills), nor is there anything cool about parents having to bury their kids…
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July 26th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
@suba1234…
My story as well, but crack and H. I would smoke until I couldn’t smoke anymore, and then do a few spoons, chill for awhile and start over again.
A few of those cycles and you find yourself in 4-point restraints in a psych ward.
I’m now clean the same amount of time I had been using… Too bad we don’t get “do-overs”, huh?
July 26th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
I think that makes you a level-minded man,a really intelligent somebody I guess. I am the same as you and never ever thought/wondered that I am square or an odd one out.I love myself this way. You should love yourself the way you are!!
July 26th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Zoey defiantly not, trust me. When ur young u might think that but in the long run its worth it. I know that saying is like a broken record, i didnt believe it either and as i got older i saw devastating effects it had on people, even death.! someone i knew OD’d on heroin and 2 of my friends OD’d but lived. and like an idiot that still didn’t stop me and i started doing it, for about 6 months i blew $3,000 + on that shit. now im clean and looking forward to a great life.
July 26th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
so sad, hope you make it. i had problems with several substance over the years but i’m done. I think it was my children that made me want to stay here.
July 26th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
I’m not quite sure what PFDFA has to do with the posters friend dying from heroin… I should have died twice; I was lucky. The first time I had good surgeons- the second time a wife who happened to be a nurse. I’m in my 30th year of either using, or helping others not use…
I live with a sad feeling that my number has already been called, and I’m just waiting….
July 26th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Partnership FADFA is full of shit.Years ago all of their non-porfit funding was from alcohol and cigarette companies.oooh, alcohol good, drugs bad?that’s fucking stupid.they also had commercials PSA stating that marijuana made people violent.hmmm, excuse me, what the fuck???God, I hope those stoned people don’t attack me!! LOL Fucked up completely.
July 26th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
I knew someone who died from that…. that ish is serious..
July 26th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Been down that river. This video is short, not preachy, and I think very hard hitting. I got off meth and H 9 years ago. I used to mix them together and shoot ‘em sometimes. Lost everything. But I quit, and it’s possible, even though it’s hard to live with the aftermath and look at yourself in the mirror afterwards. The hardest for me is remembering what I pissed away to drugs (my dignity, relationship, possessions all sold for nothing) and what an asshole I was to those who love me…
July 26th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
im 17 from Los Angeles and no one thinks your cool if u use drugs they think ur cool if u live on the edge and drugs are the easy way to do that.
but all u need 2 be cool is a brain, a razor sharp tounge, unique look and sun glasses.
it doesnt hurt to be good looking
July 26th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Good but sad video, hopefully this will help others relize they can get out of smack.
My fave Musician died of heroin
July 27th, 2010 at 12:20 am
I’m 17 and live on my dad’s farm in Nebraska. I’ve never even seen drugs and wouldn’t know what they look like if I saw them. About the most kids do around here is drink beer. Does that make me a square and un-cool person? I’ve often wondered about that.
July 27th, 2010 at 12:44 am
Everyone’s on drugs. Truthfully, honestly, everyone I know I know is on drugs.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:40 am
This Video goes deeper than his looks. Other things as stress/ depression can change our looks, but the subject here is Heroin. My point is what’s going on inside of us shows through our looks as well as our personality. I am sorry for Rodney as he could have had a great life wether he was goodlooking or not. You with the SMART REMARKS: You too will lose someone you loved, from drugs. It is the one thing that has no No Prejudice at all…You might have someone in your family now using.
July 27th, 2010 at 2:35 am
I knew that cat when I worked in Hollywood. He was a good guy with a bad problem. Like a lot of people I know.
July 27th, 2010 at 2:44 am
krazimuffin, thank you very much for your comments — they will help others. Regards…
July 27th, 2010 at 3:38 am
Thanks for this video. It’s hard to watch friends mess up their lives with drugs. It’s even harder to watch them die from them. I shot smack for 10 years. For the past six years I’ve been off of it and living a normal life. My purpose of saying this is to let ppl know that it is possible to get off of it. It’s very difficult but IS possible. You don’t have to die.
July 27th, 2010 at 3:42 am
Habit, A shackle for the free.