Heroin: Methadone & Heroin Facts

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

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?

Any heroin cold turkey stories?
What happens during withdrawal to heroin? I know the symptoms. What I don't know is how they feel. Can you give me something like this? thegooddrugsguide.com articles h big hurt.htmI'm not on drugs, never have been on drugs, and never will be on drugs, but I write a lot, and one of my main characters has a drug addiction to heroin for over twenty years. Any personal or impersonal stories will be great. Links to fiction stories are good too. Thanks in advance.

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

What are the effects of heroin?
If a thirteen year old boy took a shot of heroin, what would the effects be, especially for being so young? How bad would it be for him if it is the only time he ever did it? Could it raise his heartbeat, send him into shock, or kill him? this is not about me, i am a 16 year old boy asking this. please answer, thank you

What is the best way to handle a heroin addict looking to get clean?
The person I love relapsed a few weeks back after a year and some of being clean. The reason he got clean the 1st time was because one of his best friends overdosed a day after xmas... Him and his 3 neighbors who are all the same age and were all best friends...are addicts. Not only them but heroin is everywhere in this town. I really need some advice to figure out what would be the best situation for him. He wants to get the help, so that's the important thing. He has no health insurance btw. And what are the best ways I can stay positive taking care of him for the next 7 days. I had to quit my job because it was either one or the other....saving a life is far more important especially because it's my other half. Please help

How can you tell the difference between a heroin junkie and a crackhead?
I see a lot of homeless people who appear to be either on drugs or mentally insane in Newark Penn Station, New York Penn Station, on the subway, in Port Authority and on the streets, but I can't always tell who is who. What distinguishing features would allow me to see who suffers from what addiction or impairment?

Is it possible to detox from heroin using methadone?


Found a type of drug - meth/heroin/crack? Can someone please help me identify what this is?
i found drugs in my brothers bedroom and do not know what this is, it is in a regular dime baggy and it looks like cocaine, but has a very potent smell. It somewhat smells like boogers and i KNOW that sounds disgusting but if you ever had a cold with a nasty taste smell, that is the only way I can describe this. But i do not know that coke has a smell. Could this be meth or heroin, or something else, maybe a pill cut up?....

What's worse, meth or heroin?
heroin i know just fucks up your health really bad and is nearly impossible to quit. meth ive heard worse things though cause it turns you into one ugly motherfucker and just dystroys your body. what do you think? and besides, whats the difference between the two?

What to do with heroin addicted loved one?
My boyfriend has been doing heroin off and on for a year. He's been lying to everyone and continuing to use. I gave him the ultimatum today, rehab or never speak to me again... He didn't choose rehab. His brother, who he lives with has cut him off, I have cut him off, all of his friends that aren't using have cut him off, but his parents continue to support him by paying for his cell phone, car, insurance, rent, school tuition and paycheck. We have all gone to them, pleading that they cut him off, as they are the last support system he has that is letting him continue to use. They refuse and say that it is their responsibility to pay for all of his things and are admitting that he is using heroin but that he needs to figure out how to quit himself. What do you suggest the people who care about him do? I have already cut him off and refuse to speak with him, I have pleaded with his parents to quit enabling and they continue to do so? Is there any other choice or just move on with my life?

What does heroin look like after taking out of the balloon?
i found a and when i emptied it it looked like dark brown water. is this what heroin looks like after being in a balloon or what should it look like?

Approximately how many heroin addicts in the world today?


Two days ago, me and a friend decided to try heroin for the first time.?
i know it was a horrible decision, but now my vein is red running from the needle point up my arm, it hurts quite a bit. should i see a doctor? what could this be?

What should you excpect after you stop using heroin?
I have a close friend who is staying with me and who has decided to stop shooting up... Wat should she excpect the process to be like? She has been using for at least the past ten months.... She wants to stop baddly but would like to know what she might have coming...

Heroin addicts are sometimes prescribed heroin....?
on the NHS in England. do you think this is right moral the right course of action to take?to me it seems as though the NHS have just resigned themselves to the fact that some people are hooked and aint coming off and have started to put more emphasis on giving them safe needles and scores etc.