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Addiction: Heroin
Giving Up

Heroin is highly addictive. Also, 'street' heroin is usually smoked or injected, and both these practices are harmful to health. Because you can soon develop a physical tolerance to heroin, it is hard to use it just recreationally or occasionally. Instead, users can become dependent on the drug to the extent that it becomes the focus of their lives.


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