Heroin=Bad Idea Kids

On July 13, 2013, at the age of 31, Cory Monteith was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver. He had been scheduled to check out that day following a seven-night stay, but when he failed to do so, hotel staff entered his room and discovered his body around noon. The Vancouver Police Department stated that the cause of death was not immediately apparent, but foul play was ruled out. An autopsy released by the BC Coroners Service was completed on July 15, and stated that Cory died from "a mixed drug toxicity" consisting of heroin and alcohol, and that his death appeared to have been accidental.
Monteith's body was cremated in Vancouver on July 17, following a private viewing by his immediate family and girlfriend, Lea Michele. His father said he did not find out about the viewing or cremation actions until after the fact.

Diacetylmorphine, almost always still called by its original trade name of heroin in non-medical settings, is used as a recreational drug for the transcendent relaxation and intense euphoria it induces. Anthropologist Michael Agar once described heroin as "the perfect whatever drug." Tolerance develops quickly, and users need more of the drug to achieve the same effects. Its popularity with recreational drug users, compared to morphine, reportedly stems from its perceived different effects. In particular, users report an intense rush, an acute transcendent state of euphoria, which occurs while diacetylmorphine is being metabolized into 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM) and morphine in the brain. Some believe that heroin produces more euphoria than other opioids upon injection; one possible explanation is the presence of 6-monoacetylmorphine, a metabolite unique to heroin - although a more likely explanation is the rapidity of onset. While other opioids of recreational use produce only morphine, heroin also leaves 6-MAM, also a psycho-active metabolite. However, this perception is not supported by the results of clinical studies comparing the physiological and subjective effects of injected heroin and morphine in individuals formerly addicted to opioids; these subjects showed no preference for one drug over the other. Equipotent injected doses had comparable action courses, with no difference in subjects' self-rated feelings of euphoria, ambition, nervousness, relaxation, drowsiness, or sleepiness.  Like most opioids, unadulterated heroin does not cause many long-term complications other than dependence and constipation. Due to increased vulnerability to infectious agents, particularly viruses and intracellular bacteria resulting from the suppression of various cell-mediated immune pathways, the use of heroin and other opioids, even at normal therapeutic levels, may lead to opportunistic infections, which carry their own lasting effects.The average purity of street heroin in the UK varies between 30% and 50% and heroin that has been seized at the border has purity levels between 40% and 60%; this variation has led to people suffering from overdoses as a result of the heroin missing a stage on its journey from port to end user, as each set of hands that the drug passes through adds further adulterants, the strength of the drug reduces, with the effect that if steps are missed, the purity of the drug reaching the end user is higher than they are used to and because they are unable to tolerate the increase, an overdose ensues.

That being said, Montieth had just recently completed rehab for substance abuse,  he used the same amount of heroin that he used before he went to rehab to get high, his body couldn't tolerate the mix of alcohol and heroin, and he died. (my own conclusion)

Now Cory was an idol of mine, and his death really really sucks. But I think that there is a positive to his death, and that would be a Cory Montieth's story is a cautionary tale, maybe kids will be less likely to do smack.