How Heroin Kills You

Published March 3, 2014

How heroin kills you
Injecting it minimizes the lag time between when the drug is taken and effects are felt — with injection, the effects are almost immediate. It can also be smoked, snorted or eaten, but … Morphine, acting like your endorphins, binds to molecules in …
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The Party Monster Lives For the Applause: Michael Alig?s Second Act
The terrible thing he's referring to was a byproduct of Alig's descent into addiction. By the mid '90s, his reveries devolved from lively to lifeless as the club kids exchanged ecstasy for tranquilizers. Alig became hooked on heroin, ketamine, cocaine …
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The 'Gangsta' Rap Scapegoat
“They idolize these guys with the hats on backwards, and the terrible rap lyrics and the drug and all of that,” he continued, adding that high-profile figures need to hammer young people with that message to “reverse the peer pressure.” Last week, I …
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