Heroin

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Heroin is a highly addictive alkaloid-based narcotic. Its manufacture and use is illegal in most countries, including Australia, the UK and the United States. It is made from morphine.

In Lost

• Charlie becomes addicted to heroin after he is introduced to it by his brother Liam. ("The Moth")

• Liam is able to eventually kick the habit (after almost losing his family) but Charlie continues to use even after the Crash. ("The Moth")
• Locke eventually convinces him to kick the habit, first giving Charlie three chances to ask him for his stash. He claims that on the third time of asking, the heroin stash will be his. ("The Moth")
• Shortly after this, Locke and Boone discover a crashed Beechcraft containing lots of Virgin Mary statuettes with heroin hidden inside. ("Deus Ex Machina")
• Charlie finds one while accompanying Sayid in pursuit of Rousseau after she kidnaps Aaron and begins carrying it around as a kind of talisman. ("Exodus, Part 2")
• Mr. Eko was a notorius drug lord in Nigeria before crashing on the island. He kills two Moroccan drug dealers while trying to smuggle large amounts of heroin out of Nigeria. ("The 23rd Psalm")
• The Beechcraft was originally used by Mr. Eko to smuggle heroin out of Nigeria but the plane somehow ended up crashing on the Island. ("The 23rd Psalm")
• Mr. Eko shows Claire that the statuettes contain Heroin and demands that Charlie take him to the plane. ("The 23rd Psalm")
• After Charlie shows Mr. Eko the plane they set it on fire but Charlie had previously taken 6 of the statuettes and hidden them. ("The 23rd Psalm")
• Later, Locke reveals to Charlie that he knows about his stash and he takes them and puts them in the gun vault. ("Fire + Water")
• Locke later moves the contents of the gun vault as a part of Sawyer's con, so the heroin was then in the possession of Sawyer. ("The Long Con")
• Used by Jack to ease Libby's suffering, after she was shot by Michael. ("?")
• Charlie apparently seals the kicking of his heroin addiction by throwing the last of the Virgin Mary statues into the sea. ("Three Minutes")

Trivia

• Most commonly, heroin is injected with a needle, but on Lost it is snorted or rubbed into the gums. The taking of the drug itself is never seen, just implied, because of strict American TV censorship laws.
• During the heroin scenes, brown sugar is used.

Drugs v • t • e
Alcohol • Cigarettes • Heroin • Juliet's test drug • Locke's drug • Oxycodone • Vaccine