Reaction to certain medications. 1  Environmental irritants. 2  Poor oral hygiene. 3  Tobacco exposure or alcohol consumption. 4  Candida yeast infection (Oral Thrush) 5  Tongue inflammation, such as Glossitis. 6  Spicy foods such as habanero and jalapeÃ±o peppers contain compounds in the peppers that are correlated with white tongue.
Heroin (diacetylmorphine) is used for treatment of severe acute pain (such as severe acute pain due to myocardial infarction or heart attack, end stage cancer pain, post surgical pain, terminal illnesses etc.) in some countries (such as United Kingdom), as strong analgesic.
A second study showed that whereas 0.1% of pregnant women were estimated to have used heroin in the past 30 days, 1% of pregnant women reported nonmedical use of opioid-containing pain medication (2). In this study, the rates of use varied by setting and by mode of assessment.