• Feel as though you have been wrapped in cotton wool and that your problems aren’t there or important when you are under the influence of the drug
• Itchy
• Constipated (can’t pooh)
• Feel sick and throw up
• Fall asleep and pass out
• Not care about anything but heroin
• Become a criminal because you have to get money to buy heroin
• Lonely as no one wants to be around you because of the person heroin has made you
• Need to take it all the time
  

Heroin slows down the body. It slows down the breathing, heart and makes it difficult to cough the gunk up out of the body. This can cause illness and if the heart stops, death.

Heroin is a physically addictive drug. If a user doesn’t take the drug the following things happen: they get the shakes, their bones and muscles ache and are painful, they can’t sleep, they can’t get warm, they sweat and their noses run.This is called withdrawal.

Users can find it very difficult to stop and most say they wish they had never started. Put this together with the withdrawal when they do stop and you have got a drug that should be avoided at all costs.