Reliance on heroin may worsen woes
Drug may mask anxiety and depression by blocking pain, leaving the disorders untreated and users in worse state
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File photo showing heroin seized by the Central Narcotics Bureau in an operation on March 19, 2018.
PHOTO: CENTRAL NARCOTICS BUREAU
People who rely on heroin to escape their problems may end up being more depressed as the drug floods the body's receptors responsible for regulating both pleasure and pain.
Prolonged use of heroin gradually numbs addicts to its effects and so they crave more each time they take the drug, hoping to re-create the first high they experienced.
