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 Translation for 'heroin' from English to Spanish
NOUN   heroin | -
SYNO diacetylmorphine | heroin
drogas
heroína {f}
heroin
drogas
heroinómano {adj}
heroin-addicted
drogas
heroinómano {adj}
addicted to heroin [postpos.]
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Usage Examples English
  • Polish heroin contains diacetylmorphine (heroin), 6-monoacetylmorphine (active metabolite of heroin), 3-monoacetylmorphine (less-active metabolite of heroin), morphine and small amounts of codeine.
  • Presently with the resurgence of high output production of opium and heroin in post-Taliban Afghanistan, there is an ongoing heroin addiction epidemic in Russia which is claiming 30,000 lives each year, mostly among young people.
  • "Politics of Heroin" documents CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade.
  • According to a 2009 Cochrane review, methadone maintenance treatments decreased the likelihood that heroin dependent patients would use heroin, but did not change crime or mortality rates.
  • Papaverine is found as a contaminant in some heroin and can be used by forensic laboratories in heroin profiling to identify its source.

  • This is also the perpetual cycle of a heroin addict: Cop (acquire heroin), Shoot (consume heroin), Cop (acquire more heroin), etc.
  • File:US timeline. Heroin deaths.jpg|US yearly overdose deaths involving heroin.
  • However, injecting heroin maintains the most popular route of administration in Australia, with the National Drug and Alcohol Centre reporting 100% of reported heroin users injecting in 2018, compared to the 6% who smoke.
  • Hughes developed a heroin habit in the 2000s and is thought to have met her partner, fellow artist Bryan VanAssche, through an online heroin user community.
  • The idea of giving heroin to heroin addicts is controversial. Nonetheless many otherwise "conservative" sectors have endorsed the plan.

  • Underground Heroin Clinic: Treating heroin addiction with hallucinogens in Mexico.
  • In February 1990, the Pepperhill Mob lost one and a half kilos of heroin from a contact the gang had in London.
  • As of 1983, he was controlling the heroin market in Diyarbakır and sale of heroin abroad.
  • Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) is the medical procedure of using a harm-reducing opioid that produces significantly less euphoria, such as methadone or buprenorphine to reduce opioid cravings in people who use illegal opioid, such as heroin; buprenorphine and methadone are taken under medical supervision.
  • In the 1990s, potent and inexpensive heroin became widely available in Portland; heroin use in Multnomah County rose 600% during that decade.

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