Black tar Heroin

Heroin is a tar-like substance that dope fiends tend to prefer. It’s A morphine derivative, heroin was first synthesized in 1874 and is the most abused and most rapidly acting of the opiates. Back then they did not have the luxury rehabs we have today. If you went through heroin detox it was in a mental institution. It is a central nervous system depressant, or “downer”, which affects the pleasure centers of the brain. When the person gets off on their dope or in other words “gets hi” they will begin to  become drowsy and start nodding out.

Short term effects of heroine addiction

Short-term effects of heroine addiction appear soon after the injection and dissipate over the next few hours. These drug addicts often report feeling euphoria accompanied by a warm skin flush, dry mouth, and a lot of nodding. Following the initial “rush”, the user is “on the nod”, in which he is alternately aware or drowsy. Brain function is clouded, resulting in slow or slurred speech, clumsy gait, pinpoint pupils, and heavy eyelids.

In addition to the short-term effects, classic signs of heroin detox are vomiting, constipation or the use of laxatives, track marks on arms, weight loss, itching and scratching, finding spoons with burn marks or disappearance of spoons altogether, foil or gum wrappers with burn marks, missing shoelaces (used to inject heroin), and bottles of vinegar or bleach (used to clean needles) appear.

Kicking the heroin habit

When an addict attempts to kick the habit, heroin withdrawal symptoms typically appear from 6-24 hours after cessation, and peak between 48 and 72 hours. Though the physical symptoms should subside within a week, the psychological dependency remains, due largely to the fact that heroin alters brain chemistry on a fundamental level. However from my experience many heroin addicts do stop using heroin and go on to live productive lives. I know for a fact that I did and you can too.

Heroin detox

The best bet if this happens to be you is to check into some type of opiate rehab for recovery from heroin. There you can stop using heroine with a modern day heroin detox. This will be done medically and can take up to 5 days. At this time you will be looked after by a trained medical staff who will administer prescription medications to help ease your discomfort from withdrawal during this you will be free from all opiates.

I would strongly suggest that you do not delay for your life depends on you kicking heroin altogether. Get help today and overcome your addiction to heroin if you do not get help I can tell you that sooner or later there will be consequences for your continued use of heroin and they will consist of jail, institutions, and death not necessarily in that order. If you do not wish for this to happen to you then seek help now.

I know that from my experience with addiction and what I have observed over the years in recovery is that we can all stop using drugs one day at a time and find a new way to live without them.

Good luck

This was a serious mistake on my part people at the meetings do understand that we are going to want to use at some point in our recovery and that this is only natural it is a part of the heroin detox it would be unnatural not to want to use we are addicts that’s what we did use drugs. If you are having cravings and feel like using I would suggest that you tell someone a problem shared is a problem cut in half and it just may prevent a relapse.

How to stop heroin cravings

Try to tell yourself when you are having cravings that this will pass and it cravings usually only last a few seconds and if you do not entertain the thought you will not act on it. I know this is hard to do but if you find some sort of distraction it will pass.

If you are having persistent cravings try eating some chocolate and go for a long walk better yet call someone or go to a NA meeting. Matter of fact any type of 12 step meeting will work. Try reading some recovery literature and see how others have dealt successfully with the urges to use drugs. If you really want to stop using heroin simply put you are going to have to do the foot work in other word you will have to take action if you want to beat heroin addiction and find a new way to live.

If you do relapse pick yourself back up and start over again. I had to do this so many times I lost count. Maybe even consider going to rehab. There you can start over again with a fresh start. Do this as many times as it takes do not ever give up just keep on trying one day you will get clean and stay clean.

How to find heroin addiction recovery

Heroin addiction recovery can be a great journey

Now here’s the thing if you are reading this and are just coming back from a relapse then you have been given another chance from God and you had better make the most of it. I can not tell you all the people over the years that I have seen never make it back some of them died from heroin overdose and some are spending the rest of their lives in prison for a drug related crime.

I would start attending NA meetings again every day and be sure to get some phone numbers and use them because if you at least call them and say I am just practicing then when you feel like using the phone will not seem like it weighs a thousand pounds. Now trust me here asking for help is not that hard but as addicts we find it very hard to ask. In other words this is why you must practice I did it with my first sponsor I did not know what to say so I said I am just practicing.

Ok if you are still having a difficult time staying clean with NA then you should consider going back to rehab and if you are a chronic relapser like I was I would go so far as to suggest that you go to long term drug rehab.

I went for 2 years and if I hadn’t I would not be writing this but with long term rehab and with the help of God I am clean and sober today trying to help as many people as I can to recover from drug addiction.
Good luck