heroin

IPA: hˈɛroʊʌn

A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria. Classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.

Examples of "heroin" in Sentences

Taliban resurgent, heroin is big business, and spreading to Pakistan.
Alcohol is a CNS depressant that reacts with quinine (a common filler in heroin).
The core of the KLA were radical Muslim Marxists who trafficked in heroin, and were linked to bin Laden.
It has ample revenues from international contributions and illicit trafficking, primarily in heroin, and very few non-military expenses.
His extraordinary feet in rescuing the heroin from the Shaw of Iran, by using his Bowel of N'Irthrymia, will surely peek your interest in my Chiclet novel.
During a summer internship with the East Harlem Tenants Council, he discovered the drug culture and immediately immersed himself in what he calls his "heroin career."
Afghanistan prior to the Taliban was a godforsaken hellhole that lead the world in heroin production, so it effectively was a series of criminal enterprises and not a state.
He told Cardiff Crown Court that at the time of Tony Singh's death in Newport in November 2010, he regularly smoked heroin but there was what he called a "heroin drought" in Cardiff and he couldn't use his usual supplier.
I think it would be better if informed adults — ideally with a prescription or license of some sort — could obtain heroin and other opioids from a regulated, legal source than from a drug dealer selling artificially expensive (and so crime inducing) dope of unknown purity.