Heroin Addiction: Methadone & Heroin Facts

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

On average, how long does it take to build a strong heroin addiction.?
Would it be realistic, if a character in a movie was given large although not large enough to kill doses of heroin over a few days, or up to a week, would that cause a heroin addiction? Or does heroin addictions, like we see in movies, take longer to build?

Has anyone been successful from battling heroin addiction?
Somebody I know is trying to get clean from being addicted to heroin and I just want to know that it is possible, that you CAN live a normal, clean life......Can you guys please give me ur stories.....Even the negative ones......I just need hope

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

Does Your Skin & body recover after a heroin addiction?
Is it possible or has the damage already been done?

Why is methadone used for heroin addiction? Can a person die if they quit cold turkey?


How bad IS heroin addiction?
i mean, how strong or intense is the high?and how easy is it to get hooked? especially if you WERE hooked before, got clean & started using it again?AND, how difficult is it to stop? is it THAT hard for an addict to stop usin' heroin?? what does a heroin addict go thru when they try to quit?i ask, because yes, there is someone a close friend of mine who got clean a year ago, started using heroin again for maybe the last 9 months. i'm wondering if the body is going go to thru hell after 9 months of use, if so is the withdrawal hell for only a week, 4 days, a short timeframe, etc., and how painful are the withdrawals? is it enough to keep them from trying to stop? what are the mental effects? i dont quite understand this drug OR the addiction and i'm trying to know what i'm dealing with ....p.s. my friend has said she's gonna stop, went to detox, came out, used again, now she's out doing whatever she does .... i'm waiting for her to finally go to rehab but someone else close to me told me NOT TO HOLD MY BREATH & to just LET GO OF HER .....

How to intervene a heroin addiction. please help me?
I would really like it if someone who has actually suffered from this horrible addiction could offer their advice, but any is fine.My best friend, who has already a destructive personality he's gay, very intimidating, stubborn, extremely independent, headstrong, easily depressed,pessimistic, has a lot of time on his hands etc. just recently picked up heroin again he has in the past but got over it . Ive tried talking to him about it briefly and he says that he really has nothing to live for anyway and he's happier this way so let him be, and to not worry about him. But naturally I do. I want what makes him happy since it's few and far between, but I cant just stand around waiting for him to over dose or something awful. It's already hard enough being around his " shell" . He is socially withdrawn, sometimes really mean, keeps himself isolated, barely speaks etc. Can someone please help me by offering the right ways of approaching someone with his personality type? I feel like I'm loosing him. PLEASE HELP.

My daughter has had a heroin addiction for several years. What more can I do? Serious only this is life/death?
My daughter is in her mid 20's. She has had little clean time over the last 4 years. She has been through rehab centers and jail. She is now a convicted felon. But I received information from a trusted person she does not live with me that she " has one foot in the grave." She looks horrible, expensive daily for H, so she is prostituting daily. Therefore, I called her local crisis center to try and force green warrant her into treatment. But I was not getting much help. So, I called the police who promptly told me if she did not answer the motel door where she is living there was nothing he could do. But, they agreed to check her out, and if there were were drugs in sight, etc she would be arrested. I love my daughter so I would rather she be alive and in jail. A little later my daughter calls me screaming wanting to know why I called the police. I understand her addiction, which seems to have spurs, so I told her because I love her. She told me " now you will never know where I am again" and hung up on me. I am at a lost for help. She has no health insurance and because she is a felon she is limited to assistance.

Can heroin addiction be cured by breaking the addict's back at the base of the spine?
This is mentioned in Stephen King's The Dark Tower II The Drawing of the Three." ...where it was really coming from, he knew from what he had read in the medical journals, was from the bunch of living wires at the base of his spine, that place where heroin addiction takes place by causing an unnatural thickening of the nerve stem.Want to take a quick cure? ... Break your spine, Henry. Your legs stop working, and so does your cock, but you stop needing the needle right away." If you have an answer preferably with some proof it would be greatly appreciated, thank you

How do I move on from a heroin addiction?
I am 53 days clean today after a 2 year heroin addiction. I have tried to get clean so many times in the past and have never made it past a week or so. I am now in an intensive outpatient 5 days a week, and attend NA regularly. I have also suffered from depression for the past 10 years. Now that I am off heroin, I can't explain the depressed, down, sad, lonely, and confused feelings I have. No matter what I do right now, I cannot get using off my mind. It haunts my dreams, I have extremely vivid using dreams, to the point where I wake up and feel like I'm in physical withdrawal again. I am wondering how long I have to feel so ashamed and sad, and wondering how long I have to live with this addiction haunting me and remaining so strongly in the forefront of my mind. I try and stay distracted I read, I play with my kids, I play video games, anything at all to distract myself but the second I stop whatever I'm doing I feel the addiction pulling and dragging me down so far that I can't help but wonder if I'll ever feel okay again. I never feel okay. I am lonely as my clean friends from before my addiction swore me off long ago, and my using friends I don't talk to or associate with anymore. I don't know how to get past this and I am asking for anyone's experience or advice. Serious answers only please.

How I can help to a person with heroin addiction ?
I would like to ask how I can help person I love to get out from heroin addiction. I know thats a bad situation but I would like to try to help him and I dont know how. I had no idea about drugs and the only idea with I got its to do intervention but the question is how. I try to call nr from webside but they was totaly no help they give me nr for the centers and thats about it the point is how to get him there and what if they are not good. He say that he want to get out of it but on the othere hand he is out for 2 days and than he is back on. I dont want to just look at him killing himself or being worried because he does not pick up his phone and I dont know if he is still alive. Please help me find the right way to help him. Thank you.

Is it common for someone who is using methadone to treat heroin addiction to act strangely?
Almost as if he was on speed?

IMPORTANT: What are the most effective ways of overcoming heroin addiction?
And if anyone happens to be an ex heroin addict, PLEASE contact me asap.I have a close friend of mine who's almost gone insane because of heroin addiction. His family is now considering sending him to Singapore, a supposedly drug free nation, to keep him off heroin. Is that a good idea?

Ugh. Heroin Addiction?
I've been dating this boy for around nearly 5 years now, he's 19 and I'm 23. He's wealthy and has his own house, and I live with him and we have a child together... He used to shoot heroin everyday for 2 years. He finally quit, when I gave him the ultimatum " Me or the heroin" ...He was sober for around 6months, but for the past week he's been getting high everyday...I gave him the ultimatum " Me or the heroin" again, and he told me to leave...I don't know if I should try to work things out and help him he says he's never gonna change until he dies , or just leave him...Thanks guys..

911!!! NEED SOME DRUG ADVICE? ANYONE KNOW ABOUT HEROIN ADDICTION?
I recently posted the following question and got alot of opinions but no knowledge pertaining to the drug...PLEASE HELP ME My husband just recently admited to having a several year secret addiction to heroin which would explain our maritial problems and separation. He claims he only smokes it and " hates needles" yet three weeks ago he claims he quit when he was sent to jail for a week on another charge. BUT since he has been out He first appeared sweaty and sick like withdrawls but now he is not sweating except alot in his sleep he is hallucinating BIGTIME in his sleep and his speech seems slurred and quieter than usual. And his voice seems higher pitched and strained. Marijuana seems to make him WAY more messed up than ever before. Hie pupils are non existant could that be caused from anything else? his eyes are rolling and scattered and his skin seems kinda ashy again. Last week, he pointed out three syringes and some tin foil in my yard mind you I live in Beverly HIlls and have never have never seen drugs in my yard after he left, they never appeared again.Could him showing me this be his cry for help? Even though he claims they werent his? How do I know if he is still on it? Is there a difference in behavior between shooting it and smoking it? I feel so uneducated and he is refusing to be honest and claims he has been sober for a month now but how long do the withdrawl effects last? And do your pupils shrink and eyes appear more blue during withdrawl or only while using? Do other drugs cause this small pupil effect too?, Also if he was taking a pill substitute would that still show up on a home drug test? so I thought maybe someone could shed some light on this for me? Thanks