Synonyms for heroin
ˈhɛr oʊ ɪnher·o·in

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1. heroinnoun

   Synonyms:
   diacetylmorphine, diamorphine

2. heroinnoun

   Synonyms:
   junk, Big H, skag, smack, horse, boy, dope

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1. heroin, diacetylmorphinenoun

   a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush

   Synonyms:
   diacetylmorphine

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1. • Hard Drug
   • Opiate

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1. List of paraphrases for "heroin":

   heroine, hero, smack

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1. heroin

   Synonyms:
   Diacetyl morphine Street terms Alquitran, alquitranat, antifreeze, aries, beast, Belushi, big H, black tar, blanca, blanco, bombido, bonita, boy, bozo, brea, broja, brown-noun, brown sugar, caballo, caca, calbo, carga, chapopote, chatarra, chicle, China White-white heroin or fentanyl, chiva, cotics, crank, crap, cura, dirt, DOA, dope, Dr. Feelgood, dust, dynamite, dyno, el diablo, estuffa, ferry dust, furra, gallup, gato, george, girl, glass, gold, golpe, goma, good, good horse, H, H&C, HRN, hache, hard, harry, hazel, heaven, henry, hera, heroina, hombre, horsebite, jeeJee, joharito, joy, junco, junk, karachi, la buena, Mayo, Mexican-noun, adjective, mudmurotugora, nanoo, perica, perico, piedra, polvo, poppy, powder, quill, ready rock, red-noun, shit, shoot, shoot-up, skag, skid, smack, spoon, stuff, TNT tar, tecata, tigre, tigre de blanco, tigre de Norte, tongs, vidrio, white-noun, wings, witch, zoquete Related Terms Agua de chango-liquid heroin administered nasally, Bindle-small packet of drug powder; heroin, chasing the dragon or chasing the tiger--to smoke heroin, coffee-brown heroin, nose drops-liquified heroin, P-dope-20-30% pure heroin, punk rocker-with cocaine, with crack, with Ecstasy-MDMA, or with LSD and marijuana, shabanging-heroin dissolved in liquid and taken through the nose using a nasal spray bottle, using monkey water-Shabanging heroin/cocaine, diacetylmorphine/cocaine, highballing, murder, smoking gun, snowball, speedball, whizbang

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1. Rahul Gupta:

   We need to recognize, first of all, that there is a shift that is occurring from organic compounds and substances like heroin and cocaine to more synthetics, both the types of drugs have changed – from predominantly organic to predominantly synthetics – but the way drugs are bought and sold have also changed.

2. Dean Ornish:

   Sharing things like 'I may look like the perfect father, but my kids are on heroin,' or whatever. Even by Zoom, they're getting to the same level of intimacy within one or two sessions because there's such a hunger for that.

3. Shirley Chisholm:

   It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

4. Claire McCaskill:

   I hear it everywhere I go: 'Drug overdose deaths, the vast majority of them related to prescription opioids or heroin, are single-handedly destroying families and communities across Missouri and the country,' and I refuse to just stand by and watch, we have an obligation to everyone devastated by this epidemic to find answers.

5. Tom Wark:

   It's not like we're talking about cocaine or heroin here, we're talking about a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon from the 2012 vintage.