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Addiction: Heroin

How is heroin smoked?

Chasing the dragon
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Heroin has to be absorbed into the bloodstream, and the most effective way to do that is to sniff, smoke or inject it. Heroin is smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon'. This inolves heating up the powder on some foil, and then inhaling the fumes through a small tube. The effect from this is felt very quickly – between two and five minutes after smoking.

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