Heroin Addicts: Methadone & Heroin Facts

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

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

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.

Why do heroin addicts crave orange juice?
I work at an A& D facility and have wondered what it is about orange juice that makes heroin and other opioid dependants crave it.

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....

How effective is methadone treatment in improving the lives of heroin addicts?


What do heroin addicts live for?
I am doing a project in school about teens and heroin can someone halp me by giving me links?

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'm in love with a heroin addict and i don't want to?
heyi reeally reallly love this boy, we're both 16, and he's a heroin user, i really dunno if hes addicted but its only a matter of time i guess. anyway i've known him since i was like 14 when he had never even tried a cigarette, and he's lovely and i'm not going to break up with him just because of his problem.i haven't ever tried heroin and don't intend to, but he sometimes offers me it. although i intend to refuse, i'm finding it really hard, just need some tips on how to deal with refusing him all the time?

What is the heroin addict's sex life like? Increases or decreases? Anyone out there out of experience?
Any recovering addicts out there? My boyfriend was an addict before rehab , and he has changed into a violent human being.. heroin shuts down emotions, and I've heard makes erotic sexual experiences more intense.. or is it the other way around?

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.

What are some good books about the experiences of a heroin addict?
because i want to write a book that involves drug addiction and i kinda want to know what I'm talking about and i figured i can use these books as inspiration.

How do you tell if someone's a heroin addict?
Is there even a way to tell?Besides witnessing? Won't they let off like, some kind of symptom or change in there personalities? Doing this to prove a point... if you're wondering lol

Should I aid my sisters heroin addicted daughter?
My sisters daughter from the age of 18 has been addicted to street heroin and has been homeless now for the last two years she's now 22 .We are worried that she is prostituting herself and stealing to fund her habit. Physically she is unwell and underweight.Having failed methadone and rehabilitation programs I found myself wondering if I should offer some of my medication to stop her illegally obtaining her drugs.I am prescribed by a doctor a drug called Diamorphine for severe back pain and have been on it now for the last 14 years. Having been prescribed it professionally it has never done me any harm and I'm mentally as well as physically fine.The problem is that the medication that I'm prescribed is a cleaner version of what she takes on the street and I cant help but feel that I should offer part of my medication so she can go home and get straight. I'm not certain how much I could offer her as I have been stable at 400mg daily for over ten years now and am uncertain how much I could reduce within a week or so? I work as a Solicitor in London and am currently extremely over worked as it is but that is one sacrifice I would have to make.I've never broken the law and don't like the idea of doing so however this situation is extremely stress full for my sister and for all involved and I cant help but think that it would be best to relieve her of having to raise the money through illegal and dirty activities.It is not an option for my doctor to prescribe the heroin straight to her as Diamorphine is only prescribed for pain not addiction. The doctor agrees that for all the lack of side effects I've witnessed personally, it would be impossible for him to treat her due to a license being required.Any people who have been through similar experiences or have any suggestions would be gratefully heard from,Thankyou

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?

Reasoning with a Heroin addict and few more questions?
I'd prefer users ex users and people that were living with or around users to answer please.Can you reason with a heroin addict that's high? i met a girl few days back i saw her first and last time up to now then , and by the looks of her i could tell that she's either using or she was using in the past i've grown up around heroin addicts as a child so i pretty much recognize one when i see one especially if i spent few minutes talking to them H leaves a mark on a person that a keen eye can easily see . We talked a while well... she did most of the talking , asked me few questions like what's my name and where do i live and stuff since i'm kinda new in that hood . I thought nothing of it. Like i said, i grew up around junkies, and most of them were good people with a bad Habit and i never felt threatened around them. But last night, i got a disturbing call from my first neighbour & my mother shortly after, that some girl is screaming my name in front of the building around 23 00 and trowing little stones marbles at my windows i was working night shift, still am as a matter of fact . They freaked out. First, cause someone was screaming my name and throwing rocks at windows late at night, and second, they really didn't like when they found out who that was. for various reasons Anyway, i'd like her to stop doing that cause she upset my neighbours and my mother, but i don't want to be rude cause i think she's getting more then enough of that in her life. For example, after our conversation half of the neighbours asked me am i insane, and why did i talk with her, do i know she's a junkie etc. I'm afraid that if i can't get to her, and she does that again, they'll call the cops and then she'll be in more trouble then she already is. So, can i reason with her, like please don't do that again, neighbours freaked out?How aware they are when nodding out? this question is not related with the first one. I've seen lots of them walking, then stopping nodding 15 mins later, they are crouching & nodding, 15 mins after that they are sitting and nodding, then after some time they get up look confused to me look left, right go in the direction they chose only to see them 100 200 meters further doing the same standing crouching sitting nodding session. do they know where they want to go at all? or they just don't know how to get there? Can they hear me talking while nodding out? Will they remember the conversation? Thanks < 3