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Is it common for someone who is using methadone to treat heroin addiction to act strangely?
Almost as if he was on speed?

How does behavioral psychology explain heroin addiction?

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.

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 .....

Boyfriend with heroin addiction?
I just found out that my boyfriend of two and a half years has been smoking heroin on a daily basis for about a month a half what is the best way to go about finding a rehab that I can aford and how bad is the addiction a month a half in?

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?


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 do I go about finding a doctor who prescribes methadone for heroin addiction?
I have a son who is in a methadone program. He cannot travel and spend time away from home because he has to go to the clinic every day to pick up his methadone. How do I go about finding a physician in my area who will prescribe methadone for him so that he can travel or even come home to live the nearest clinic to my home is an hours drive away

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.

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

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

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.