heroin
noun
Examples of heroin in a Sentence
Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
Crawford, who lived in Southlake, died after overdosing on heroin, according to a medical examiner’s report.
—Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
The difference now is that fentanyl is roughly 50 times more potent than heroin.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
That year, 282 people in Hamilton County died of heroin, fentanyl or both.
—David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
Rippe began tasting her parents’ heroin at age nine.
—Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
When the states cracked down on the pill mills, people turned to a new market fueled with heroin, brought in primarily by Mexican cartels.
—Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
Each illicit drug substance (cocaine, meth, heroin) is more and more likely to be laced with fentanyl, and fentanyl kills.
—Wilson M. Sims, Longreads, 7 Sep. 2023
For decades, intelligence agencies have been able to monitor acres of foreign coca farms and opium poppy fields from the air before crops were turned into cocaine and heroin.
—oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
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from Heroin, a trademark
1898, in the meaning defined above
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heroin
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Medical Definition
heroin
noun
called also acetomorphine, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine
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