Heroin
Heroin is an opioid drug that is highly addictive. Traditionally injected in the vein, heroin can also be snorted or smoked.
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Leif Garrett Arrested on Heroin Charge
Former teen idol Leif Garrett posted a $10,000 bond Wednesday after spending two days in a jail on a drug charge, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman said.
Garrett, 48, was arrested Monday at a downtown Los Angeles train station after police found heroin in his shoe, spokesman Steve Whitmore said. Garrett was 16 when he scored his first pop chart hit, “Surfin’ USA,” in 1977.
When deputies approached Garrett Monday morning at the Metrolink station, he was “acting in a pronounced way, shaking and sweating,” Whitmore said. Garrett told them he was “nervous around law enforcement because of other meetings with them in the past,” he said.
The singer did jail time four years ago after he was arrested with heroin while he stood on a subway platform at another Los Angeles transit station.
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Rocker Pete Doherty Avoids Prison Sentence for “Accidental” Heroin Possession
Troubled rocker Pete Doherty (former lead singer of the Libertines) narrowly escaped a prison sentence when he was caught “accidentally” carrying 4g of heroin into the Gloucester Magistrates’ Court. He was caught with the drugs just moments after being fined for careless driving. After the 30-year-old pled guilty to possession, he was given a £750 fine and £85 costs.
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Jim Carroll, Former Heroin Addict and Author of “The Basketball Diaries,” Dies
Jim Carroll, a poet who chronicled his chaotic, drug-filled youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died after having a heart attack on Friday at his home in Manhattan at age 60. Carroll was a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at the elite Manhattan private school Trinity, and later became famous for his poetry and music.
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The Dangers of Cheese Heroin
If you’ve been warned against the dangers of cheese, chances are it’s not the dairy product that is being referred to, but instead a deadly form of heroin that is sold on the street for as little as $2. Cheese is created by combining black tar heroin with crushed tablets of over-the-counter cold medication such as Tylenol PM. The combination looks like grated cheese or rough sand, and users commonly snort the drug rather than inject it.
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Actor Russell Brand’s Struggle with Drugs and Sex Addiction
British actor and comedian Russell Brand, who hosted the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards and gained notoriety in the US for his role as a womanizing rock star in the film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” is best known for his often outlandish behavior, including pulling his pants down in public, dressing up as Osama bin Laden on September 12, 2001, and, most recently, a controversial on-air phone prank that got him booted from his position as host of a BBC radio show.
When speaking to Terry Gross of NPR, Brand admitted that his past antics were often a result of his drug use. Having been sober for seven years, much of that is behind him. But he still finds himself in inappropriate situations, such as a recent incident where he presented actress Helen Mirren with a pair of his dirty underwear. Continue Reading
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How to Come Back from Heroin Addiction
Getting free of heroin addiction isn’t easy. It takes time. And it takes phenomenal commitment. But it can be done. If you take the first steps – making a decision that you want to get better, that you want to get your life back, then investigating how to do it – then the next step is to make the commitment to recovery, which is an evolving process. Continue Reading
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