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Smoking Heroin: The Gateway to Heroin Addiction
Is smoking heroin a gateway to full blown addiction? There’s a lot of debate about gateway drugs, but in this case, it seems to be true.
Very few drug users start out with heroin, but heroin has its own gateway intake method, smoking. More and more, today’s needle injecting heroin users first taste of heroin was in a cigarette.
Heroin has a mystique that other street drugs don’t seem to have. Somehow heroin is more forbidden than other drugs. That may have something to do with the fact that for a very long time barrier of entry for heroin was very high, you had to inject it and now days smoking heroin is the thing.
For decades, street heroin just was cut with everything imaginable and its purity was questionable. The only way to get that heroin high was to inject it directly into the blood stream. But that’s not the case any more.