One thing I can tell you about heroin withdrawl is that you only have to go through it once. That’s right you don’t have to be a mental heavy weight to understand that you do not have to keep abusing yourself with heroin or for that matter alcohol or any other drugs.

If you have had enough of waking up sick every day from heroin withdrawl and trying to figure out your scam to get a bag of dope then maybe its time to quit heroin. That is if you are totally committed to stopping because if you really are serious and want to stay clean you will have to do a whole lot of things you are not going to feel like doing. Trust me I have been there and done that.

The reason I am so adamant about commitment is that I was not really committed to my recovery. Sure I was sick of using but I wanted to do everything the easier softer way and this is not how it works if you want to overcome heroin.

Suffering from Heroin withdrawal

The first thing you may want to commit to is finding a heroin rehab in your vicinity. Then make arrangements to go in for a heroin detox. Like I said this is your first step towards a new way of living without drugs. Now keep in mind you will be detoxed by a staff of professionals who will know exactly how to take care of you so let them do their job. It has been my experience that I suffered very little during heroin withdrawl.

Getting through heroin withdrawal

Step 2 is comes right after your heroin detox. This is when you will move to the residential treatment area. There you will learn some very valuable things about how to stay clean after rehab. In residential you will attend lectures, 12 step meetings, group, and individual addiction counseling.

There are a couple of things you should be aware of while in residential treatment one of which is to pay very close attention because this program may actually save your life if you know what to do when you start craving heroin.

This is all good but you will want to have a plan of action for when you get out so talk with your counselor about this. They may have some ideas for you and at least get a meeting list that you can use to find out what time and where the meetings you plan on attending will be.

I would make a commitment to attend 90 NA meetings in 90 days and get a sponsor. If you do this I can almost guarantee you that your life will change 100% for the better by the time your 90 are up. You may even do like me and commit to another 90. Anyway this stuff all takes action and is necessary for you to stay clean. This is not written in stone you can add to your recovery as you go along.

Good luck

Let me just say that what ever I write about you can bet that I have been there and done that. Now let me explain a little bit about heroin treatment. First of all you can put your fear to rest because there you can detox from heroin and it will be relatively painless in heroin addiction rehab .

How to get treatment for heroin withdrawal

Now some people can not afford to go to drug rehab for one reason or another but do not let this stop you because there are a lot of free rehabs that can help you plus there are State and government drug rehabs if you are willing to put in the time and effort to find one.

If you decide to do this you may also like to know how this will be done in a lot of places they use subutex for the first day or two and then switch it to suboxone. This whole procedure takes from 3 to 5 days. It will be done by people who are trained for this purpose and you will basically just get a lot of bed rest.

Keep in mind when you finish with  heroine withdrawal then it’s on to residential treatment. Here you will learn the necessary information to not return to active addiction once you leave rehab. While there you will be attending lectures, going to NA meetings, watching recovery videos, and having individual therapy.

In my opinion heroin withdrawl treatment is a wonderful way to kick heroin. It takes guts to make the commitment to quit using heroin so why not make a commitment to yourself right now to go to heroin rehab? It really does not matter if this is not your first attempt at trying to stop heroin all that matters is that you are willing to try again perhaps this time will be the miracle.

One more thing I would suggest is to make an exit plan for when you leave write down all the things that you are going to do for your recovery once you leave treatment this will be a big help.

A lot of people that leave rehab do not have an exit strategy guess what happens to them well you would be right if you said that they relapsed. Usually they will  use the same day they get out and at the most within a week if they are lucky.

If you do not want to join the long line of people who relapsed shortly after leaving substance abuse rehab then it may not be a bad idea to hit some NA meetings.These meetings are held in many locations all around the world.

I would suggest that you attend meetings daily for at least 3 months. While you are there try sharing whats going on with you and how you are doing in your recovery from drug addiction. Do not feel bad if you do not want to share a lot of people are scared to share I was one of them. I thought I would sound stupid and that I did not have anything good to say like some of the NA gurus.

Do not let that stop you share anything that is related to recovery and do not worry about sounding good what you have to say may help someone to stay clean another day.

Good luck