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heroin

/her-oh-in/US // ˈhɛr oʊ ɪn //UK // (ˈhɛrəʊɪn) //

海洛因,海洛英,白粉,玉米粉

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  1. 1

    Pharmacology.

    • : a white, crystalline, narcotic powder, C21H23NO5, derived from morphine, formerly used as an analgesic and sedative: manufacture and importation of heroin are now controlled by federal law in the U.S. because of the danger of addiction.

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  • Police said he was under the influence of heroin and found heroin and more than 200 pills in his vehicle.

  • Historically, Houry says, the greatest concern surrounding synthetic opioids was that they might be contaminating other opioids, such as heroin.

  • So-called “drug tourism” hasn’t really been a problem for Portugal, but it happened in Switzerland after officials in the 1980s and 1990s began officially “ignoring” heroin in Zurich’s Platzspitz Park.

  • She’s cleaning the same streets on which she once used PCP and heroin.

  • Looking ahead, Maze wonders if such epigenetic changes might also occur in response to other addictive drugs, including heroin, alcohol and nicotine.

  • The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.

  • Like many rock stars of the time, Ramone lived there on-and-off for a time; he even detoxed from heroin there once.

  • Keith Green finds Ramone at the Chelsea, trying to kick heroin for good.

  • Back in 2001, that “definition” of female beauty basically fell into two categories: Playboy chic, or heroin chic.

  • It remains a Schedule I narcotic to this day, considered as dangerous and addictive by the federal government as heroin and MDMA.

  • For those who have opium, cocaine, veronal, or heroin to sell can always find a ready market in London and elsewhere.

  • At one time Parke, Davis & Co. admitted that the preparation owed its chief value to heroin.

  • Because of its activity the most prominent action would be that characteristic of heroin hydrochlorid.

  • Morphine is the chief active principle, and codeine and heroin are the chief derivatives of morphine.

  • Codeine is one eighth the strength of morphine; heroin is three times as strong as morphine.