The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins is the ninth novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, published in May 2014. Similarities have been drawn between this book and Welsh's first novel, "Trainspotting". Elena Seymenliyska of "The Daily Telegraph" wrote, "It's a bit like his debut, "Trainspotting" (1993), only instead of the tenements of Leith, we're in the condos of Miami Beach. And in place of heroin addicts, alcoholics and violent psychos, here we have fitness instructors, poseurs – and violent psychos." "The Guardian" published a review of the book on 8 May 2014. In the
Heroin used and faster the route of administration used, the higher potential risk for psychological addiction. Large doses of heroin can cause fatal respiratory depression, and the drug has been used for suicide or as a murder weapon. The serial killer Harold Shipman used diamorphine on his victims, and the subsequent Shipman Inquiry led to a tightening of the regulations surrounding the storage, prescribing and destruction of controlled drugs in the UK. John Bodkin Adams is also known to have used heroin as a murder weapon. Because significant tolerance to respiratory depression develops quickly with continued use and is lost just