Translation of "dépendance à l'héroïne " (French → English) :

severe heroin addiction

cyberaddiction | Internet addiction | net addiction | internet addiction disorder | IAD | pathological Internet use | PIU | compulsive Internet use | CIU | problematic Internet use | PIU

dependence (1) | dependency (2) | addiction (3) | dependence syndrome (4)

alcohol dependence [ dependence on alcohol ]

phencyclidine dependence [ PCP dependence ]

alcoholism (1) | alcohol dependence (2) | alcohol dependency (3) | alcohol addiction (4)

Heroin dependence

Now, most users who are seriously addicted to heroin also inject cocaine. But that use is secondary.

Senator Banks: Without getting into the distinctions that exist between the addictive narcotics, heroin and cocaine, on the one hand and marijuana, which is not physiologically addictive, on the other hand, do you ever wonder whether those drugs belong in the same box?

Questions that we could have debated in this discussion about the EMCDDA are, for instance: what about the option to provide heroin under medical supervision to the group that is most heavily addicted?

46. Stresses the need for research into gender-specific addictive diseases; notes in this connection that although women consume alcohol and illegal drugs, such as heroin, cocaine and ecstasy, more rarely than men, dependence on medicines (especially amphetamine derivatives and tranquillisers) is more common among women than men; deplores the fact that hitherto very few data have been gathered concerning gender-specific features of addiction and welcomes therefore the intention of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction to submit a gender-specific report on drug consumption and drug dependence among women and men du ...[+++]ring the next year;