Heroin Addiction: Methadone Facts

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

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.

I am on methadone due to heroin addiction, when i wake up my legs KILL, is this because of methadone?
I am on 95ml of methadone, this is the dose i got at which all my withdrawls stopped at.. EXCEPT I have really bad leg pains, when i wake up from sleeping i can barely walk and bend my legs. Can methadone cause this pain? Or is it still withdrawls? I never got this pain from heroin withdrawls, only the restlessness wobbely leg thing, not pain. I don't know what it is. After a while it wares off but my legs are still always stiff. Anyone have any knowledge of this?

Why is heroin addiction so hard to overcome?
and what is it like? Can a person overcome it with their will? And why is it do difficult to do that?

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...

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?

What are the side-effects of heroin addiction...and if it's a relapse?
My best friend's boyfriend has just relapsed. He had been acting very snappy and temperamental recently I'm wondering what we should be looking for.

How do i stay sober will my heroin addiction?
I'm 17 turning 18 in a month. Well it all started when I was 15 I started shooting heroin. After that day I stuck that neddle in my arm everything went downhill drastically. I've picked up 4 felonys 21 misdameaners. I've been in and out of jail and prison. And house arrest. I've almost died 5 or more times. I've done every drug you can think of. I have probley 200 dollers puls habbit a day. Right now I'm in a intensive drug treament rehab. I've been there since september 9 2011. I recently just relasped on christmas. And now I have a suspened sentance of 1 year min in prison if I relaspe 1 more time I go away. I going crazy all day I have cravings. If you could help me out on some tips to stay sober that would be great I'm not tryin to go to prison but heroin haunts me day and night. Will it ever get easier?

Why? heroin addiction?
my husband had been clean still on 110ml of methadone everyday tho n some diazipans for 2years.he loved me, he loved kids, he wanted me to have his child one day.and quite quickly i got pregnant and carried his baby.our daughter is healthy and beautiful.BUT he had a massive slip. we were happy together and all but because i started getting money from social welfare and he didnt have to provide me food ect.. he got some extra few quid for himself.one day he came back home looking stoned. he just took our daughter to the doctor so i thought he couldnt have been drinking. he has problems with alcohol too .i had to accuse him wot he had been doing outside.he said nothing, went into bathroom.i had a bad feeling so i searched his jackets poket. and i found some needles and citric acid. obviously, i was taking heroin like he used to 2years ago.our beautiful baby wasnt enough to get his head think straight.our marridge was not enough.our new apartment and everything...nothing was enough for him.why do addicts need drugs. wot can stop them taking drugs. cant my husband break the circle of addiction or are addicts always addicts...does anyone have similar experience? do you know how i can cope with this reality...

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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.

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So whats worse, malnutrition from anorexia or from heroin addiction?
i mean seriously, the body is known to recover itself. i dont want to be anorexic, i just dont want to eat 1200 calories a day. i'd feel better eating like 700so what i f i did that?versus being a heroin addict or coke head and becoming malnourished that way stravation plus drug damage this is why it's better tojust starve yourself w o drugs

Can you kick a heroin addiction on your own without withdrawals?
Can you kick a heroin addiction by using less and less until you're doing like 1 hit per month?I am not using heroin, and I never will.