black heroin

American  

noun

1. a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.

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Example Sentences

Many of the victims were those known on the street as “old heads”: black heroin users in their 50s and 60s.

From Washington Post

Kathie Kane-Willis of the Chicago Urban League said black heroin users have also been excluded from changing national attitudes toward drug abuse.

From Washington Post

Soon after the trio came together, he recalled, they visited a “shooting gallery, a place where junkies would come in to shoot their drugs. It was a research project in a sense. We were there all night watching black heroin addicts looking for a healthy vein to get high.”

From Washington Post

“We must do everything we can as a society to preserve our most precious American art form: jazz. I hold this golden statue aloft to honor the thousands of nameless black heroin addicts who played the music and then died so I could have two white actors tap dance clumsily on the ceiling of the Griffith Park Observatory. Salt peanuts! Salt peanuts!”

From Salon

A South King County man is in the slammer, accused of painstakingly unwrapping the signature gold foil on Ferrero Rocher chocolate candies, replacing the chocolate and hazelnut bites with globs of black heroin, wrapping them back up and shipping the drugs to Alaska.

From Seattle Times