How to Use heroin in a Sentence

heroin

noun

• 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 law included fentanyl and heroin for those found to have 10 grams or less.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Fentanyl is more powerful than heroin, and a tiny amount of the synthetic opioid can be lethal.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
• Swinehart, who grew up in a wealthy Cincinnati suburb, overdosed 20 times and spent 13 months in prison when he was hooked on heroin and other drugs.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
• The Rojos ran a nice little business, moving drugs like heroin into the United States.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• That year, 282 people in Hamilton County died of heroin, fentanyl or both.
  — David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, drugs that used to make up the majority of overdose deaths -- heroin and oxycodone -- saw declines in their rates of death.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 May 2023
• Her heroin dealer, her panhandling spots, her friends—all of that was still in Manhattan.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Aviles was convicted of heroin possession in 2017 in Park County, Wyoming, the complaint said.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• The difference now is that fentanyl is roughly 50 times more potent than heroin.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin, and small amounts of it can kill, authorities say.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
• His research found that heroin in L.A. has been largely replaced by fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Perry did not have alcohol or drugs such as meth, cocaine, heroin, or fentanyl in his system at his time of death.
  — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2023
• Mickey Hart, the band’s percussionist, had taken a break amid a struggle with heroin.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The pop singer has also openly addressed her family’s struggle with drug abuse, which dates back to her own father’s use of heroin.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024