• @dx1
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      15 hours ago

      Heroin is not especially dissimilar to other opioids and was used medically for a long time before falling out of favor for other opioids with marginally less addictive potential. Has to do with its ease of crossing the blood-brain barrier. Black-market heroin is markedly less safe due variability in purity and adulterants, as well as the absence of medical supervision compounding with those factors to increase overdose risk.

    • niftyOP
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      1017 hours ago

      Please try and report back