How to Use heroin in a Sentence

heroin

noun

• The suspect said the heroin and pipe were his but not the rest of the items.
  — cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• The sacks held more than 10 pounds of the fake pills and about five-and-a-half pounds of heroin, the affidavit said.
  — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
• Want to live in a state where heroin and meth are legal?
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
• Back at Danvers' house, Heiss points out the best point of access to the caves and Danvers hands over the heroin.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 10 Feb. 2024
• Nine were tied to heroin and the rest to prescription drugs or a mix of substances.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
• But as his future took shape, heroin worked its way in.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• With heroin, the line moves wildly between green and red.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
• The roommate, called The Banished Earl, has a heroin habit and is the semi-genius lead singer of their band.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• The law included fentanyl and heroin for those found to have 10 grams or less.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• In return, Bostic gave him eight grams of heroin — or about $600 worth — and promised to give him more heroin in the future.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024
• He was charged with OVI and felony possession of heroin.
  — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• Though fresh off a detox in Switzerland, Richards was in the midst of a crippling heroin addiction.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• The report lists the effects of fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine as the cause of the late artist’s death at age of 59 in September.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• The study found that cannabis use was very common among those who were dependent on heroin.
  — Dr. Khushali Jhaveri, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The original version of the death scene had Walt inject Jane once more to cause the lethal heroin overdose.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
• Most of the deaths have been linked to fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times as potent as heroin.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Scattered around the apartment were more than 50 envelopes of what appeared to be heroin — many marked with an ace of spades or ace of hearts.
  — Michelle Tauber, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• Fentanyl is about 50 times more potent that heroin, according to the DEA.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• In his early thirties, Ben switched to heroin, which was cheaper.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2022
• The nation's overdose deaths spiked last decade due to fatal episodes with opioids, then heroin.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• Marie Ross was a heroin addict, which may have spurred the couple’s involvement.
  — Carol Roark, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 July 2024
• By the early 1970s Johnson had developed a heroin habit to go along with his alcoholism, and stints on the street and in a psych ward followed.
  — Hazlitt, 26 Apr. 2023
• The agency also finds the opioid laced in other street drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and sold on its own in pill, powder and patch form.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
• His father, a Vietnam vet, was addicted to heroin and would beat his mother in front of Marchell.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2024
• Cipriano was paid $500 to smuggle the drugs, described in the court documents as an unknown weight of black tar heroin, into the prison.
  — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• That heroin addict once found unconscious in his car with a syringe in his arm, now sober and married, with twins.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• Monteith died of an accidental heroin overdose at the age of 21 while Glee was still on the air.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2022
• Excessive drinking is the third-leading cause of preventable death and disease and the state has among the highest rates of methamphetamine and heroin use in the country, the group says.
  — Ncrombie, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2023
• Instead of the oxycodone in Percocet, the pills contained filler and fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
• Having turned his back on crack and heroin, Pete is embracing a new chapter, immersing himself in a quieter life in a small French coastal town.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024