Heroin Addict: Methadone & Heroin Facts

heroin addict - Important information about methadone and heroin. Methadone is used to treat addiction to heroin and other drugs.

What happens to a heroin addicted baby in the long run?
What happens to a heroin addicted baby when it reaches it's teen years and adult years?

Are my friends heroin addicts? (I'm serious)?
So my night started out with two friends that I see a lot. We then had some people over that we hadn't seen in a year. Once we invited them over one of them asked to use the bathroom. Her boy friend then said he needed to use it after. So both of them went down stairs and used the bathroom. Then the last one went down stairs to use the bathroom too. They stayed for a bit, smoked a bowl, and then one of them went down to use the bathroom again. The three of them left and we thought they had to be doing heroin and not cocaine because they would be sniffing a lot. If they are heroin addicts do they usually have herpes because we are now in fear that when we smoked with them we may have contracted the herps.

	Methadone is a synthetic opioid used medically as a painkiller, but also to treat patients on opioids such as heroin.

I need help, I just found out my boyfriend is a heroin addict. What do I do?
Well, I've fallen in love with this guy who's amazing and perfect in all ways that meets the eyes. He makes me feel amazing and I've never loved anyone the way I love him. I knew he had a past, I knew he'd done drugs in the past. I thought that he was over that. Well, last Wednesday I got a call from his mom telling me he had been picked up. A parole violation. He was put on parole after released from prison. Okay, the things I've said so far are bad, but he is a good person. I believe underneath everything. I didn't know he wasn't allowed to be in Ohio, the whole time he was supposed to be in Michigan. Also, his mom had found heroin in his coat pocket after the police took him. He'd started using again for the past couple of weeks before he got picked up. So many things he'd been lying about. He was stealing from his family, and he may have even stole from me. He lied to me about a lot of things that I just can't believe. I don't know what to do, right now I feel so alone because I made plans with him. I feel so alone because there is absolutely no one I can go to that will understand this. I can't tell my mom, she only knows half of the story. I have been thinking about going to church or something, I'm so desperate to feel some sort of 'okay.' I don't want to leave him because I feel like his problem will only get worse, but people have told me that once a heroin addict always a heroin addict. I just don't want to believe that's true. I need hope. And fyi, I am nineteen and he is twenty two.

For any dual diagnosis bipolar plus heroin addicts out there?
We have a family member that is struggling with a " dual diagnosis" bipolar disorder and substance addiction. Drug of choice is Heroin, but will take whatever is available.As members of this person's concerned family we'd like to know from somebody who had the same problem what helped you? This person is a late aged teenager, has been through multiple residential rehabs months in duration , only to return to home to intensive outpatient, psychiatrist and personal counselor support, along with NA meetings and do it all again. All of us in the family are ready to get off this roller coaster of horror and the parents are ready to withdraw all support and let this young adult sink or swim on her own, as they've exhausted the family finances and fear for the rest of the families' safety. This is a nice middle class educated family, not abusive nor others in the immediate family with addiction issues.If you have been this teenager and are currently doing well, we'd love to hear from you while we know every situation is different, we're out of ideas. Honest and sincere suggestions would be deeply appreciated.18 years and we'd love to have court initiated treatment although currently in residential yet again by their own choice but this person, when clean and even when using, is very intelligent and can speak quite logically to the court. No way to gain control because if incompetence...and we've tried the police and they can't help either. They said " it's illegal to possess drugs but not to take them" so if they " only" find her high, there's nothing they can do. Jail would be a relief to all of us, but this person has never been caught.We've been in the group support for the past year, but not currently. We're kind of burned on on teaching tough love to the new folks and regardless of how tough we all are, she's not better. I fear this person has lost the ability to live at the parents' home and none of the rest of us will volunteer our home. We know what would happen. Robbed blind and drug dealers coming to the house.

My heroin addict man?
My man is on gear and always in and out of jail we have a 3 yr old son 2gether and have been 2gether 8yrs although our son thinks daddy is at work as he gets older will realise hes had many chances 2 sort himself out and does until bumps into old contacts should i give him yet another last chance for our boys sake or jst break up with him and try 2 move on? 8yrs is a lot of years 2 let go and all of whitch were happy until he aqierd this habbit help any advice?

I took a sip of a heroin addicts cough syrup, will I get hepatits C?
I know this guy who shoots up, and he had some cough syrup that looked uncrupulous, and I took a sip of it stupidly, and also drank out of his soda. Will I get hepatitis C? He doesnt currently shoot up, and is very young, like 23, but who knows, he probably has hep C is my guess.I dont want to have ruined the rest of my life, but I think I might have. Anyone know if I can get hep C from taking a tiny sip or two from an unscrupulous persons beverage? im not as worried about aids because of the need for blood to blood contact etc. Also, I have had hep B vaccinations....Also, this cough syrup was the stuff with vicodin in it, and it was bought from another person who was a drug user.Ok, thanks for the answers guys, but lets say he %100 HAS hep C. Does that change anything? my guess is he probably does. Its that bad. Also, I was hanging out with him because Ive known him since elementary school, and he needed a ride to a job....I used to do oxycontin and vicodin with him, and he had some cough syrup that had vicodin in it, and I stupidly took a small sip of it. I know, its dumb. What worries me most is that he bought it from another druggie, and who knows WHAT that guy has.HOW LONG SHOULD I WAIT TO GET TESTED?I heard with aids you have to wait up to a year....

Do heroin addicts eat alot of candy?
i believe my daughter is using heroin again. I was wondering, do heroin addicts crave candy. She always has a bag of candy.

When a family member is a heroin addict who does not want help what is there to do?


Can an ex heroin addict use heroin once a fortnight and not be addicted?
My partner used to inject heroin for about 6 months'ish, ended up in prison and successfully completed an intense rehabilitation program. He was clean for about a year and a half and now wants to smoke it once a fortnight. He doesn't think that he has a problem or will ever have a problem again. I though don't agree. We have 18 years behind us, 3 kids and the 4th on the way. I'm so so close to throwing in the towel. This is unacceptable in my eyes for myself and my children, what would you do in my position? Anyone???

A Question for heroin addicts or former addicts?
Layne Staley says in an interview " You know what? You cannot understand a user's mind, especiallyjunk. We use to have these powerful visions about life and death. Manyof us have seen our own death happening unconsciously and we stillwait for death to come every day." What did he mean by that? Can you relate? Can you describe what he means in your own words? taken from p. 138 from the book " Layne Staley Get Born Again" by Adriana Rubio

What options do I have, heroin addict brother and alcoholic parents.?
Okay so I'm sorry if this is long, but please read it For starters Im 16 and I live in Wisconsin. I have OCD and depression, Feb. 2008 I was admitted into a mental hospital for suicide thoughts and cutting my own personal choice to go to the hospital and I didn't cut since until recently. Okay, so ever since Ive been about 6 my brother started using drugs, when I was 8 we had a meth lab in our house, unknowingly, since we were out on vacation but left my brother...no idea why. Ever since then he's still done drugs. In July of last year he almost overdosed and was rushed to the hospital and then went into rehab for three months. But on December 19th my just turned 22 year old brother passed away in a car accident causing my brother to get out of rehab 3 days early. He didn't even go to my brothers funeral or anything. Then on Christmas morning he overdosed again on heroin, having to go to the hospital. And then the past few weeks Ive been walking into his room to see him ODing on heroin, passed out on the floor..ect. ect. Ever since my brother died I just cant seem to function, I used to be a smart girl getting great grades and now I actually failed classes. I have no ambition for anything like that anymore. I started cutting again to deal with all the pain. My parents drink every night until they're drunk and I cant take it anymore. I havent been coming home lately and staying with my boyfriend's aunts and uncles they're really sweet people and they're strict so no worries and tonight my parents made me come home and to whatever my dad said I just replied with " okay" and he said if I said okay one more time that he'd come into the bathroom and kick my a . I told him that it was child abuse to do that and he said he didn't give a sh t. My mom called me a psycho b tch too. I see a therapist regularly and a few years ago a social worker had to come to my house because my brothers hit me, but of course my parents stood up for them. My parents are emotionally abusing me and I just cant take it. I have no relatives that I can live with, but my boyfriend's aunt and uncle said I could stay with them for as long as I needed to. I feel as if I stay here that I will kill myself, because I cant stand to see my brother shoot up and its just so draining. My dad works for the state if that helps.So what are my options? Can I call my social worker on Monday and see that I get out of here? My boyfriend's aunt said she'd sign for my rights. I NEED TO LEAVE I know this was long, but thank you sooo much for helping me God bless you all. P.S. My parents said if I leave the house that they'd call the cops and put me in juvie..I dont want that But I can't stay here either. My boyfriend's uncle is picking me up tomorrow morning at 9, but I dont want the cops taking me away

Approximately how many heroin addicts in the world today?


What does this mean? my brother is a heroin addict. if your going to be mean dont answer please.?
i have a brother that is a heroin addict for years now. recently hes complaining of itching all over and his room is filled with bed mites. my mother and i dont know if its true. my father thinks its that he got a hold of something that he injected and is giving him an allergic reaction. i dont know anything about this drug and neither does my mother so i am lost. please dont judge i am just trying to help my brother.thank you so much to everyone who answered. i also forgot to include he already has the worst HEP there is, and he already has a bad liver. thank you so much for not judging.

17 year old Daughter denies being a heroin addict ( i have proven otherwise)?
My 17 year old daughter was taken into hospital for injection heroin for the first time and overdosing accidental the hospital rang me to tell me what had happened...She admitted to me that she had been smoking it for the last month, also smoking crack cocaine.When she came home i wouldn't let her out of my side i actually forbidden her to leave the house.Anyway i decided i needed a break and i asked her to move in with her dad, he is at work most of the time so he isn't around, so she is going out here there and everywhere he is also giving her money which i told him not too as she was buying heroin for just 5.00 a hit she told me .. Anyway i went round to check in her room and i found foil that was burnt and there was wraps of clingfilm on the floor. i even found a wrap with heroin still in that she had left. I know before she moved into her dads her uncle lived there he was also on heroin so she is telling me its what he had left and it is not hers.But her apperance is awful she is full of spots and rashes kind of thing on her face. she seems to be abit " dozy" and her eyes are very glazed and her pupils are either really large or really small, never normal.Don't know where to turn anymore, i love her to bits, she is attending a programme to get clean but her appointment is not untill next wednesday so in the mean time she will obviously be doing drugs as they havent given her a methadone script yet.She is doing nothing but lie but is denying being an addict. whats your advice?