Narcotics

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the dealer can make a larger profit. Since addicts don't know about the purity of a substance, many die because of overdoses. In an overdose of heroin, the lungs stop functioning, and the person dies from lack of air.
There can be other effects of heroin addiction, one is that people who have illnesses may have them go untreated because the heroin has masked the pain. Another is that peoples veins
collapse, from having been injected into to often. Their skin may also be covered with sores from needles. Dirty needles can often cause serious infections.
Another common narcotic is opium. It is made by drying out the gummy, dark brown sap of the opium poppy. When it is completely dried out, it looks similar to chunks of dirt. You can use the chunks in many different ways. You can crush it and smoke and smoke it, or you can sniff the crushed chunks.
Morphine is ten-times the strength of opium. It can actually be removed from crude opium. You can remove small, white crystals ...

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