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Common side effects include respiratory depression (decreased breathing), dry mouth, drowsiness, impaired mental function, constipation, and addiction.^[12] Use by injection can also result in abscesses, infected heart valves, blood-borne infections, and pneumonia.^[12]

After a history of long-term use, opioid withdrawal symptoms can begin within hours of the last use.^[12] When given by injection into a vein, heroin has two to three times the effect of a similar dose of morphine.^[3] It typically appears in the form of a white or brown powder.^[12]

Treatment of heroin addiction often includes behavioral therapy and medications.^[12] Medications can include buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone.^[12] A heroin overdose may be treated with naloxone.

An estimated 17 million people as of 2015 use opiates, of which heroin is the most common,^[14][15] and opioid use resulted in 122,000 deaths.^[16] The total number of heroin users worldwide as of 2015 is believed to have increased in Africa, the Americas, and Asia since 2000.^[17]

In the United States, approximately 1.6 percent of people have used heroin at some point, with 950,000 using it in the last year.^[12][18] When people die from overdosing on a drug, the drug is usually an opioid and often heroin