Heroin Addiction: Methadone Facts

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How to help a friend overcome heroin addiction?
My friend sells her body to get money for drugs. I don't know how to confront her because she might get defensive and think I am being nosey.

How can i get clean from heroin addiction?
Im a 23 year old guy and i have been an addict for a few years. i cant stop doing heroin i smoke it and also shoot up a couple times a day its so hard for me i cant quit i used to have a good life and good friends i was a football player and baseball and basketball i had it all money car everything and ive lost it all i live with 3 other addicts which were my good friends before we got addicted and also i got my ex hooked on it too and she is having trouble trying to get clean i feel so bad she used to try to get me to stop and now she cant i need help what can i do rehab hasnt worked i want to be clean.

How can i get clean from heroin addiction?
my name is Jason im 23 yrs old and i have been an addict for a few years. i cant stop doing heroin i smoke it and also shoot up a couple times a day its so hard for me i cant quit i used to have a good life and good friends i was a football player and baseball and basketball i had it all money car everything and ive lost it all i started off with just weed then tried things here and there and drank and stuff then i tried oxys and got hooked then heroin and here i am today i live with 3 other addicts which were my good friends before we got addicted and also i got my ex hooked on it too and she is having trouble trying to get clean i feel so bad she used to try to get me to stop and now she cant this last weekend she overdosed shes fine but it was scary and a couple of my other friends have overdosed cuz they shoot up too much when they think they can handle it i need help what can i do rehab hasnt worked i want to be clean. and i want my friends to get clean. i wanna be who i was a few years ago everyone says drugs changed me and i want to change back to who i was and to have my life back.

Do you know anyone who overcame heroin addiction?
How did they do it? How long did it take? How long have they been clean?I am not the addict and Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendricks overcame drug addiction by dying of it so that answer was not helpful. I really want to know some of your experiences with drug addicts.

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.

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

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 .....

About heroin addiction..?
my dad died, because of a heroin addiction. he had an overdosei don't know much about the topic, and ive researched a little, but i cant really grasp the full picture,i was wondering if anyone could tell me what happens, in a heroin overdose, i saw a horrible picture of a drug overdose victim r.i.p , her body was red and blue and white. please, give me some idea, i want to know what happened, etc. i don't really know exactly. what would his body have done, are you in pain, what exactly happens? if anyone knows anything then please, give me some sort of idea.thank youx

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.

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

Can heroin addiction make you mentally ill?
I just have to know cause my friend stephen,his nickname is squash, he is a junkie. See he moved in with a day ago and all he do is snort inject heroin,smoke,and sleep.he barely eat. So is he about 2 loose his mind?

My daughter asked me about my heroin addiction and i told her the truth?
She's 14 and she asked me if I would ever use again and I told her the honest truth that my addiction to heroin is not dead, just sleeping. My wife got pissed off at me when I told her that. The truth is I'll always be an addict and I will always want to use, right now I'm not doing it, but that's not to say tomorrow will be the same..if I could snort some smack right now I would. My wife told the kids 6 years ago when I went to rehab that I was never ever going to use again. I've used 8 times since then. Am I wrong?

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.

Could my ex-heroin addiction be the reason why my jaw hurts after physical activity?
Just wondering if there's a connection there...I was playing an intense game of basketball the other day and afterward my jaw was killing me, and I was not hit or anything...