Smack, Junk, Horse, China White, Chiva, H, Tar, Fix, Speed-balling, Dope, Brown, Dog, Food, Negra, Nod, White Horse, Stuff...What a sad loss of life...some guy was apparently mainlining heroin and overdosed.
As you know, heroin is synthetic opiate and an extremely powerful narcotic that comes from the dried milk of the opium poppy. The dried milk also contains morphine and codeine. Opiates are effective painkillers. However, heroin is one of the most physically and psychologically addictive drugs known to humankind and acts as a central nervous system depressant (affects reflexes such as coughing, breathing, and heart rate).
I was the first medical responder on scene of a guy who apparently coded on heroin. The county sheriff already had the scene secured. I, and the other medical responders that soon after arrived, spent close to 45 minutes attempting to revive the individual without success. Personally, it was a sobering moment actively helping someone roughly my same age … someone with a similar number of years of life experience ... someone who sadly gave up their life while they had yet an entire potential lifetime still ahead of them.
