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heroin

a white odourless bitter-tasting crystalline powder related to morphine: a highly addictive narcotic. Formula: C21H23NO5
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heroin

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(pharmacology)
C21H23O5N A white, crystalline powder made from morphine; the hydrochloride compound is used as a sedative and narcotic.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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"I was terrified enough to have my brother stay with me." She told officers she had ended her relationship with Marr but believed he became angry after a relative called him a "smackhead."
For its here in Smackhead Close that many of Renton's young folk spend their evenings chasing the dragon...
Thorpe told police: "They called me a smackhead and a scruffy cow."
He told them their dad was a smackhead and a weirdo and it was their fault that he died.
Curwood and his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, went to a friend's flat where he was heard to say: "Nobody turns my sister into a smackhead."
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"You'll need the key, then," said the barmaid, explaining that emergency procedures were needed after a kindly passing smackhead had decided to use the WC as a cosy place to jack up, only to miscalculate and jettison a glut of arterial blood over the walls.
With songs like Barbie is a Smackhead and Slugs and Spice you gotta love 'em.
And the 62-year-old said it was the recent tragic death of a young 'smackhead' that helped him make his decision.
AN addict who attacked a man in the street with a knife after she was taunted with cries of "smackhead" has been spared jail.
"Gromit was like a smackhead!" laughs the presenter.
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