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heroin

noun as in addictive drug

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The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.

Like many rock stars of the time, Ramone lived there on-and-off for a time; he even detoxed from heroin there once.

Keith Green finds Ramone at the Chelsea, trying to kick heroin for good.

Back in 2001, that “definition” of female beauty basically fell into two categories: Playboy chic, or heroin chic.

It remains a Schedule I narcotic to this day, considered as dangerous and addictive by the federal government as heroin and MDMA.

For those who have opium, cocaine, veronal, or heroin to sell can always find a ready market in London and elsewhere.

At one time Parke, Davis & Co. admitted that the preparation owed its chief value to heroin.

Because of its activity the most prominent action would be that characteristic of heroin hydrochlorid.

Morphine is the chief active principle, and codeine and heroin are the chief derivatives of morphine.

Codeine is one eighth the strength of morphine; heroin is three times as strong as morphine.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heroin, such as: dope, drug, narcotic, candy, diacetylmorphine, and h.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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