Heroin Addiction

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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.

Roughly how long does it take to be completely "clean" if you go cold turkey from a heroin addiction?
That is my main question but I also want to know what the addict will experience during this time, symptoms, side effect etc and is it possible for someone to die if they go " cold turkey" with no substitute drugs?

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.

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

Are there any good Christian books to help with heroin addiction recovery?
My fiance has been hiding a heroin addiction for several months. He had claimed that he quit many times, however never truly did. It wasn't until he went to jail for assault, and he was unable to do it for a couple weeks, that he stopped using. While in jail, he began reading the Bible and praying, and has taken a newfound interest in these things and is finding inspiration in them. I want to encourage this, and was wondering if anybody knew of any inspirational books on how to deal with beating addictions from a Christian standpoint heroin specifically would be good, however drugs in general would be extremely helpful as well . I have done internet searches for such books with almost no luck. Thanks in advance for your answers

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.

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

Why is methadone used for heroin addiction? Can a person die if they quit cold turkey?


My son and his heroin addiction: need help?
i have looked into many rehabs in order to send my son so that I can help him get off of heroin. I have heard a lot about " drug free detox" and rehab centers...can anyone let me know of a good one?Have looked into Narconon...really like it but would like some feed back.ThanksA desperate mother

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.

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


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 does behavioral psychology explain heroin addiction?


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.