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How is it that people that inject heroin are still alive?
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Heroin: Interesting question. Answer: it might take a whole chapter in a text. Over years the medical establishment has experimented with intervenous and intra-arterial access. With needles or other instruments. Basically started putting substances in veins and arteries and found out what would work and what did not: heroin turns into morphine within seconds morphine is used in medicine.
Answered 11/24/2013
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