Heroin Addiction: Methadone Detox Facts

Question: How can i get clean from heroin addiction?

(Posted by: Jason on 2010-07-28 15:40:06)

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.

Posted by: Jody on 2010-08-01, 14:51:22

Heroin addicts have a more difficult time staying clean than any other addict. If rehab didn't work, maybe you weren't 100% committed. You know the drill. You have to give your life and your will over to the care of God. You have to put your life in His hands, because no human being, no drug, no rehab can cure you. It's your life, it's your recovery, and you are responsible, but God will take away the obsession and compulsion only when you are completely sincere. You have to do it his way. Get back to Narcotics Anonymous. Otherwise it's jails, institutions and death.

Posted by: amylouisex on 2010-07-28, 15:49:29

How to Get Clean - Rehabilitation Rehabilitation is - to restore or bring to a condition of health or useful and constructive activity AND to restore to a former state or capacity. This can be done with the heroin addict and obviously does not include alternate drug substitutes as an answer. How To Get Clean - The Cause of Drug Cravings? When you drink continuously or use drugs the body becomes super-saturated with metabolites (chemicals the body converts the drugs or alcohol into). These metabolites may become trapped in the fatty tissues and remain there for years. When released into the bloodstream they trigger drug and alcohol cravings. How do these drug metabolites get released? A simple jog to catch the bus, dancing, a hot day anything that gets your blood pumping. Your veins are surrounded by fatty tissue and so it doesn't take much. Suddenly you feel the urge to use, feel high, feel foggy, confused, dull, or simply focussed on nothing other than getting a fix. How To Get Clean - Eliminating Drug Cravings The right program will actually consist of detoxification as part of the rehabilitation. Meaning actually removing the poison (drug) or poisonous effect from the body. This is being achieved everyday. The result is a person free of drug and alcohol cravings, reduction or elimination of other addiction symptoms like depression, irritability, fatigue. Also, a regained ability to think more clearly, improved memory and attention span, increased energy and sense of well being and the kicker - Enthusiasm toward life! Good luck! :)

Posted by: Davy on 2010-07-28, 15:50:40

Get away from the place you live is first, if you are around other addicts you are more likely to use. Talk to your parents, grandparents, siblings, any one who is clean and ask for their help, get yourself in a clinic. You can do it, I have all the faith in the world that you will get clean because you want to get clean. Good luck.