Heroin Addiction: Methadone Facts

heroin addiction - Important information about methadone uses in drug rehabs and drug addiction detox.

Can heroin addiction interfere with a woman's period?
my girlfriend has been using heroin intravenously for about 7 months and has stopped having her period for about the last 3 to 4 months almost. She has even taken a pregnancy test that came up negative which makes me wonder if it has anything to do with the heroin. Any info helps, thank you.thanks for the answers everybody it helped alot and we are getting help and getting clean. I know its no way to live...its a way to die. thanks again though

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?

Can you die from heroin addiction withdrawl?
Not for me. But someone I know who recently went to jail. So kinda just wondering.

What are the pros and cons of methadone to treat heroin addiction?


Have you heard the ad on yahoo free radio 'turn to help.com" where heroin addiction is called a disease?
This is just too PC for me. I'm a child of the 60's and a junkie is a junkie, it is not a disease, it is a bad life choice, it's just a case of stupidity, Ignorance has a cure, stupidity is often fatal just not often enough In answer to Normannen, no it is not. See Darwin.

Are there any communities that can help a child with heroin addiction?
A mother was addicted to heroin while pregnant and the baby might have a chance of being addicted.Are there any centers that can help treat the baby?Oh sorry,United states Philadelphia,PA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .....

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Please read my short poem i wrote about heroin addiction, give feedback?
As the black tar surpasses my veinThese feelings decline, the anger and painI enter a world, so sane and so pureNo longer feel alone, but loved and secureI lie in my bed, I can't stay awakeBut I feel so alive, how much more can I take?Another dose will make me alrightIt'll make me forget, and have peace through the nightBut I wake up before dawn, shivering coldI look for the needle, but that answer is oldBesides, I used it all up the night before lastSo what kind of smack brings me back to the past?Is there such thing? Where can I buy it?You tell me there's help, I no longer deny itThe next morning I arive, dropped off in a carSad that the methadone don't taste as good as the tarAnd I sit in the clinic, so scared and unsure Free me from this I just want to be purei should have put this in the poetry section.

My friend/boyfriend is a heroin addiction?
I've know this guy for about 2 3 years now. As soon as i met him i had a little thing i liked who he was and how relaxed he was. Soon after he started acting weird and i cut off most contact with him because i found out he was using heroin. I heard horrible things about him for about 6 months about how bad of a junkie he was. Then he went to Florida for about a year and recently just came back he got a hold of me and we started talking again,and i started really liking him again.We've been spending a lot of time together lately and we're dating but I've been noticing he's been acting really strange lately. i know hes messed up,he'll go away for about 15 Min's at the time and come back speech slurred,he'll sit down and start nodding and falling asleep. I've noticed some track marks. I want to confront him,because i cant stand the stupid BS. But i also really care about him and just don't want to leave him. I want to help even though i know he has to want it first.So my question is should i confront him? Will he overreact? How should i do it?Sorry about the novel lolEven if i do leave him i still want to confront him i don't know how do go about doing it. that's what i need help with.He also told me he had quit while he was in Florida