Further research on Heroine.

In our film the main character has a drug addiction to heroin, we used black tea and brown sugar to look like heroine. We decided to find out the usual effects this drug has on the body and general information on it. This made sure we knew the proper effects of it and could properly show it in the film.

Effects: Heroin slows down body functioning and substantially reduces physical and psychological pain.
Most users get a rush or buzz a few minutes after taking it.
A small dose of heroin gives the user a feeling of warmth and well-being.
Bigger doses can make the user sleepy and very relaxed.
The first dose of heroin can bring about dizziness and vomiting.

Purity: A user has no way of knowing what their heroin is mixed with. Recent tests have shown it can contain nutmeg, brick dust, and ground-up gravel but it’s more commonly mixed with sugar, starch, powdered milk, or quinine.

Risks: Deaths from overdoses occur. But the risk increases after a period off the drug because the body's tolerance for the drug goes down.

If this drug is taken with alcohol or any other drugs it increases the chances of overdosing.

Injecting heroin can do nasty damage to your veins and has been known to lead to gangrene (death and decay of body tissue, usually a digit or a limb) and tissue infections.

We had a small bit of help from the Bristol drugs project,in reference to our film, the scene we have where it shows our main character Carly having a breakdown in the toilets with all the writing on the wall was a major hic-up we had at one point whilst filming our film.

A contact we had helping us throughout the film had a contact with a person working with the Bristol drugs project. The 'go crazy scene' set in the toilets was a major worry for us as usually the side effects of heroine is that the drug user feels spaced out, and our film showed the side effect being on a hype. However after getting in contact with the the contact from Bristol drugs project she told us that before taking their fix of heroine most users will take a different drug such as cocaine in order to balance out the hype from the cocaine which then gives them the energy and helps them to take the Heroine, making the comedown seem as less drastic but giving them more of a high.

However the 'crazy scene' also shows a good representation of the paranoia that come when you were taking drugs.