Chasing the dragon
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"Chasing the dragon", or "foily" in Australian English, is the act of inhaling the vapor of a powdered psychoactive drug off a heated sheet of aluminium foil. The moving vapor is chased after with a t
Demonstration of "chasing the dragon"
Heroin
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Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the opium poppy; it is mainly used as a recreational drug
Chasing the dragon
…achievable. Used in this way, "chasing the dragon" can apply to any recreational drug administered by any means. The practice of smoking low-grade heroin via heating on tinfoil first originated in Hong Kong in the late 1950s, and thereafter spread to other parts of Southeast Asia during the 1960s, Western…
Sample of heroin powder
Ampoules of freeze-dried diamorphine (heroin) for medical use
Heroin solution injected after being filtered through cotton from a tampon
A modified hypodermic syringe used for rectal administration ("plugging") of heroin.