Illegal Drugs: Heroin

This trusted health website is an introduction to the drug heroin, it also links to many additional resources.

This publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) provides basic facts about heroin, including how it is abused, its affect on the brain, other health effects, treatment options, and reported use by youth.

This website outlines what heroin is, how it is abused, withdrawal symptoms and options for treatment.

Here is a list of resources compiled by the NYS initiative to fight heroin and prescription drug abuse.

This article looks at the risks of heroin overdose associated with intervenes injection.

This article looks at the treatment of heroin addiction with the pharmaceutical drug gliatilin.

This article looks at many of the factors of heroin abuse and the challenges of testing.

This article looks at how nurses are working to prevent heroin related deaths.