tself to our natural opioid receptors. The user then begins to feel a surge of pleasure, known as a "rush". The intensity of the rush depends upon the amount of the drug that is taken and how quickly it enters the brain and connects. The rush is usually accompanied by a warming of the skin, dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, and severe itching. After the initial effects, the user will be tired for several hours. While all this is happening, the heartbeat will slow, as well as the users breathing sometimes to the point of death. One of the greatest risks of being a heroin addict is death from an overdose. Each year about one percent of all heroin addicts in the United States dies from an overdose of heroin, despite their high tolerance to the effects of the drug. What has become more common though, is people dying, of overdoses the first or second time they ever used heroin. This can probably be attributed to the higher potency of the drug and the fact that people simply don't know what exa

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