Black tar heroin
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Black tar heroin is highly addictive but cheap, recreational drug, and it has rapidly spread among both casual and habitual drug users.
"Black tar heroin" is the typical medical term for the drug[1], but it has many other colloquial names:
It is the latest drug to hit the streets (as of June 2005).
Black tar heroin is used by ravers, college students and hard core addicts to ride the "midnight train". While most users treat pigment as a street variant of heroin - indeed, the effects are roughly similar - pigment is also a mild hallucinogen and is taken in a variety of forms. The casual drugs crowd pops pigment pills or snorts it diluted in water, while hardcore addicts shoot or smoke it.
Notes
1. ⇧ See the CDC's Wound Botulism Among Black Tar Heroin Users (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5237a3.htm) from 2003, for example.
