How is heroin used?

How is heroin used?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: What is 'heroin'?; How is heroin made?; Where are heroin opium poppies grown? and more...

Heroin can in principle be administered like all other drugs in a variety of ways, you can have it in a pill form, you can drink it, you can eat, you can have skin patches, you can inhale it, you can snort it up, and you can inject it. That's the same with most other drugs. The image that most people have regarding heroin nowadays is the injection because its repulsive to so many people, but injecting heroin is not the only way of having that drug into your body. It's also quite common in some countries to smoke it, for instance its called “chasing the dragon” you can put it on a piece of silver foil and heat the foil up and inhale the vapors. So I mean, there is no single way to put it into your body