The life of a heroin user

Heroin is perhaps the most widely recognised drug from the group known as opioids.
Others are opium, morphine, codeine, oxycodone, buprenorphine and methadone.
Of all these drugs, heroin is probably the one perceived to be the most dangerous. But what do we really know about who's likely to even try heroin or become addicted to it?
In his new book Professor Shane Darke, from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, takes a biographical approach to the lifecycle of the heroin user from birth until death.

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