Heroin Addicts: Methadone Detox Facts

heroin addicts - Important information about methadone, methadone clinics and methadone detox.

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A Question for heroin addicts or former addicts?
Layne Staley says in an interview " You know what? You cannot understand a user's mind, especiallyjunk. We use to have these powerful visions about life and death. Manyof us have seen our own death happening unconsciously and we stillwait for death to come every day." What did he mean by that? Can you relate? Can you describe what he means in your own words? taken from p. 138 from the book " Layne Staley Get Born Again" by Adriana Rubio

How effective is methadone treatment in improving the lives of heroin addicts?


For any dual diagnosis bipolar plus heroin addicts out there?
We have a family member that is struggling with a " dual diagnosis" bipolar disorder and substance addiction. Drug of choice is Heroin, but will take whatever is available.As members of this person's concerned family we'd like to know from somebody who had the same problem what helped you? This person is a late aged teenager, has been through multiple residential rehabs months in duration , only to return to home to intensive outpatient, psychiatrist and personal counselor support, along with NA meetings and do it all again. All of us in the family are ready to get off this roller coaster of horror and the parents are ready to withdraw all support and let this young adult sink or swim on her own, as they've exhausted the family finances and fear for the rest of the families' safety. This is a nice middle class educated family, not abusive nor others in the immediate family with addiction issues.If you have been this teenager and are currently doing well, we'd love to hear from you while we know every situation is different, we're out of ideas. Honest and sincere suggestions would be deeply appreciated.18 years and we'd love to have court initiated treatment although currently in residential yet again by their own choice but this person, when clean and even when using, is very intelligent and can speak quite logically to the court. No way to gain control because if incompetence...and we've tried the police and they can't help either. They said " it's illegal to possess drugs but not to take them" so if they " only" find her high, there's nothing they can do. Jail would be a relief to all of us, but this person has never been caught.We've been in the group support for the past year, but not currently. We're kind of burned on on teaching tough love to the new folks and regardless of how tough we all are, she's not better. I fear this person has lost the ability to live at the parents' home and none of the rest of us will volunteer our home. We know what would happen. Robbed blind and drug dealers coming to the house.

Do heroin addicts eat alot of candy?
i believe my daughter is using heroin again. I was wondering, do heroin addicts crave candy. She always has a bag of candy.

Do heroin addicts work?


Are my friends heroin addicts? (I'm serious)?
So my night started out with two friends that I see a lot. We then had some people over that we hadn't seen in a year. Once we invited them over one of them asked to use the bathroom. Her boy friend then said he needed to use it after. So both of them went down stairs and used the bathroom. Then the last one went down stairs to use the bathroom too. They stayed for a bit, smoked a bowl, and then one of them went down to use the bathroom again. The three of them left and we thought they had to be doing heroin and not cocaine because they would be sniffing a lot. If they are heroin addicts do they usually have herpes because we are now in fear that when we smoked with them we may have contracted the herps.

How many heroin addicts are there in britain and most importantly , why so many// can you see a pattern,?


Where do heroin addicts get their heroin?
so im doing a story about a guy who is a heroin addict and i have a question......so first where would heroin addicts get their heroin? im talking about the needles.

What do heroin addicts live for?
I am doing a project in school about teens and heroin can someone halp me by giving me links?

I took a sip of a heroin addicts cough syrup, will I get hepatits C?
I know this guy who shoots up, and he had some cough syrup that looked uncrupulous, and I took a sip of it stupidly, and also drank out of his soda. Will I get hepatitis C? He doesnt currently shoot up, and is very young, like 23, but who knows, he probably has hep C is my guess.I dont want to have ruined the rest of my life, but I think I might have. Anyone know if I can get hep C from taking a tiny sip or two from an unscrupulous persons beverage? im not as worried about aids because of the need for blood to blood contact etc. Also, I have had hep B vaccinations....Also, this cough syrup was the stuff with vicodin in it, and it was bought from another person who was a drug user.Ok, thanks for the answers guys, but lets say he %100 HAS hep C. Does that change anything? my guess is he probably does. Its that bad. Also, I was hanging out with him because Ive known him since elementary school, and he needed a ride to a job....I used to do oxycontin and vicodin with him, and he had some cough syrup that had vicodin in it, and I stupidly took a small sip of it. I know, its dumb. What worries me most is that he bought it from another druggie, and who knows WHAT that guy has.HOW LONG SHOULD I WAIT TO GET TESTED?I heard with aids you have to wait up to a year....

Approximately how many heroin addicts in the world today?


I feel physically sick when i see heroin addicts...?
today somebody showed me some videos on youtube about heroin addicts..and i started feeling physically sick when i saw an 8 year old being druged with heroin i had to get out the room coz i thought i'd throw upI dont even know why that it, i mean ye he was a kid, that was terrible I dont care about those people, i mean i feel sorry for them, but its their own life and their own choice, so i stopped watching videos, and tried to do something to get my mind of the things i sawi just felt so angry and i wanted to cry and i felt sick and dizzy at the same time, ahhhhhi cant watch any of the videos about heroin addicts i never seen any addicts in real life anyway do i have like a phobia or something? i know its a stupid question over all, but i just dont understand whats wrong with me

Any recovering heroin addicts?
Are there any more addicts out there that has made it through heroin withdrawls and living life after that?

17, kicked out.. My mum is making me choose family or my heroin addict boyfriend, advice asap?
Okay so i'm 17 years old, live in the uk if that helps.Been with my boyfriend for near enough a year now, we did have a 3 month split though i lived with him for 5 months until we split, this was due to the fact my mum and my family didn't like him because he is a heroin addict don't judge please . He is on methadone. I thought the world of him, in the end it got to much with the trouble from my family we had to split.Anyway we got back together and my mum told me i couldn't see him she would throw me out the house if i did.. anyway i felt so low i actually ended up takng crack and heroin with him my own choice my mum now knows about my drug use as i accidently injected and OD. I still smoke it i am also getting help and getting subutex to get off it In the mean time my mum has thrown me out the house, i've had to go and move in with my dad he doesn't want me there he asked my mum to take me back, she won't he is never there always working or out drinking. I feel so alone, my mum is also on about banning me from coming and visiting her unless i get clean and stop seeing my boyfriend. She calls me fat, a druggie, junkie, smackhead ect... things like that don't help me.. She also says horrible things about my boyfriend too.I don't want to be living with my dad, he isn't there for me, it doesn't feel like home, and i just feel so alone, Yet when i visit my mum i get arguments and judgement. I can't win the only place im happy is with my boyfriend. I also have no other family i speak too apart from dad, mum, brother and they all think the same.Thing is i can get clean and im going too but i can't leave my boyfriend i do love him and he has more or less stuck by me through everything and my family caused him alot of greif but he still wants to be with me.My mum is also moving quite a while away very soon so i have no choose if im moving with her and not seeing my boyfriend again or stay here and loose her.She has said i need to choose between him and her... i can't, i want my family and my boyfriend.. i can't choose, help???