Introduction to Interactive image:
Heroin is in the narcotic drug class meaning that it has psychoactive compounds with paralyzing or numbing abilities. It is an opioid and acts on the opioid receptors in the brain. It makes people feel surges of euphoria, less anxiety, and also pain relief, and hormone release (¨getting high¨) The effects that heroin has on out body is difficulty breathing , loss of consciousness, or overdose, miscarriages, heart infections, death, risk of infectious diseases like hepatitis.
This interactive images shows the effects heroin has on the body and the way it goes through the body.
Green=Smoking Heroin
Pink=Snorting Heroin
Black=Injecting Heroin