What Is It / And Is It Known By Any Other Names?
Heroin (Diacetylmorphineis also known as smack, hammer, slow, gear, harry, horse, tar, mud, blow, H, skag, junk, brown sugar, and when smoked chasing the dragon. It is on of a group of drugs commonly known as opiates (derived naturally from a plant in the poppy family), or narcotic analgesics. Some other opiates include opium, morphine, codeine, pethidine, and methadone.