If you use Heroin you can:

• Feel as though you have been wrapped in cotton wool and that your problems aren’t there or are that important when you are under the influence of the drug
• Feel itchy
• Be constipated (can’t pooh)
• Feel sick and throw up
• Fall asleep and pass out
• Not care about anything but heroin
• Become a criminal because you have to get money to buy heroin
• Lonely as no one wants to be around you because of the person heroin has made you
• Need to take it all the time (be dependant)

Not fun - Heroin is a physically addictive drug. If a user doesn’t take the drug the following things happen: they get the shakes, their bones and muscles ache and are painful, they can’t sleep, they can’t get warm, they sweat and their noses run.This is called withdrawal. Some users have been dependant on heroin after smoking it for less than a month

Not easy - Users can find it very difficult to stop and most say they wish they had never started. Put this together with the withdrawal when they do stop and you have got a drug that should be avoided at all costs.