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With any drug, especially a narcotic, you are going to be dealing with danger and high risk of addiction. With regard to Heroin alone, whether snorted or injected, you are subjecting your body to becoming physically dependent upon a single use. The withdrawal effects from only one use isn't as noticeable as possibly 3 uses, however, with each use, you are increasing the level of dependence. Heroin withdrawal is the most uncomfortable experience for someone kicking without any assistance. Methadone is a synthetic type of opiate that is used to withdrawal off of Heroin and considered the easier and softer way, but is considered to be another drug that the body becomes dependent on. The effects of heroin on the mind are just as addictive, but with regard to the feeling of the physical withdrawal, of course the mind doesn't go through the sweats and chills and expelling of bodily fluids the same way as the physical body does. It's addictive nature attacks the feelings and the slow down of the brain's mental aspect and memory is lost in a lot of cases. Heroin is known to be one of the hardest drugs to stay away from. A lot of the reason is the physical dependency heroin has on the body, lasting approximately on an average of 4-6 hours if injected. Once the drug starts to rid the body, symptoms of yawning, craving, runny nose, chills alternating with sweats accompany a rapid heart rate. It can be compared by some as an extreme case of the flu. Unless another issue is injected into the body to rid the symptoms for a feeling of normalcy, the withdrawal symptoms can be mild to severe and lasting 3-10 days. Oh, I forgot to add the loss of sleep for up to 21 consecutive days in a lot of cases. Advice to the curious... the high is not even as long in duration as the drain and exhaustion that is ever present in your body which feels like it lasts for a year, but in reality a month or more. I wish I would have read this before I thought I would just "try it". THE worst physical experience when detoxing from this narcotic and I haven't even explained what it's like to try to stay "well" so you don't start to get sick and you have no money and you've sold everything. I don't even want to get started on painting the ugly picture of this addiction and having to add raising a baby into the equation. Be smart and really think twice before using.

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