What is the attraction that people have to heroin?
Anti drug here, but want to hear thoughts on the experience
of heroin, curious to know.
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To answer this: here is a quote of a quote:
"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fu***ng big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fu***ng fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f**k you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fu***ng junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fu**ed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life"
But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?" (
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How can I help my sister recover from heroin addiction?
My mom and dad got divorced, and this has been so hard on my sister. Ever since then, she's been in a slump that she can't get out of. She started turning to heroin, and this has not helped her at all. It just worsened her case. How can I help her recover from her addiction?
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I'm so sorry for what is happening to your sister.
One thing you can do is convince her to get herself treated. She should undergo drug rehabilitation. Consult a doctor so that your sister will be able to get the medical help that she needs. Remember, though, that drug rehabilitation can only work so far. Your sister still has to make choices once she goes out of the treatment program. She has to have the will and determination to get over her addiction so as not to fall into relapse. Your presence, support, and understanding will really be valuable at a time like this. I hope she gets treated soon. Good luck. (
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How do I make it look like Im dying from a heroin overdose?
For our play in drama, I play a heroin addict. It was originally decided I would just pass out, but my drama teacher decided to make it more...gruesome and intense. How can I make it look realistic, yet get a good response from the audience. Also any other tips on being a heroin addict?
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heroin is your life you'll do anything thing and steal from anyone just to get more. Its all u think. Its all you do. Also addicts get the shakes lots and studder (
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What would happen if you did cocaine and heroin at the same time?
I know that coke is a stimulant and heroin is a depressant, so I'm wondering what would happen if you did the two drugs at the same time? They obviously wouldn't just cancel each other out so I'm wondering what would happen.. (not because I'm going to try or something, I'm honestly just wondering).
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you would die. (
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can a drug test tell the difference between heroin and methadone?
my son is on a methadone program but i think he might be using heroin again i want to drug test him.
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yea your pee takes out all the stuff that your body doesnt need so it will take out the certain type of drug that your son could be using (
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How will I be able to tell if someone has a heroin addiction?
I have a teenage son and I just saw bruises on his arm last night. I think they're pricks of needles and I was just wondering if this might be because he's taking heroin? I'm so scared. Can anyone give me tips on how to tell if a teen is a heroin addict? I would really appreciate it.
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First, you have to determine if there has been a change in his appearance. Are his eyes always red and his pupils dilated? Has he drastically gained or lost weight? Then see if there has been a change in his personality. Was he a usually harmless kid turned obnoxious? Has his grades been declining? You could also find out if he has new friends, these "friends" might be the ones influencing him to take drugs. And of course, any drug paraphernalia would be an indication that he is doing drugs. Be on the lookout for foils, pipes, tourniquets, syringes. If these signs are present in your son, talk to him and be ready to do an intervention and have him treated.
Good luck! (
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How can I help my friend get off heroin?
My very close friend has been an addict for almost 5 years and he's been on heroin for the past 2 years. I feel like i've tried everything i'm at a loss. He can't afford to go to rehab and I can't pay for it either. He tried the out patient rehab but that didn't do s***. Please if you have any suggestions let me know.
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If outpatient rehab did not do anything,
perhaps he is not "really" ready.
He has to be willing to go to any length
to stop such an addiction.
Or he can wait until he's court ordered into a treatment program.
There are county-funded, state-funded facilities that do help with detoxification. But many of those keep the addict only three days to three weeks. So, in the experiences I've heard about, this will not help, unless your friend is at a point of surrender.
Oh yeah, you could pray for him.
May God bless you with answered prayer.
There are many many websites and referral areas, from the most expensive to "free." Depending on where you live.
http://www.heroin-addiction.us/
If he is not ready, maybe you could get more info here below: God bless!
FOR YOU:
http://nar-anon.org/index.html (
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What kind of problems can using heroin or opiods cause over the long term?
You know how cigarettes can cause cancer and emphysema etc. Are there any problems that using heroin or other opiods can cause over the long term. AND YES I ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THE RISK OF GETTING DISEASE USING NEEDLES AND THE RISK OF OVERDOSE. I want to know what type of sickness the actual heroin can give you from using it for years.
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Addiction, of course.
I heard something about collapsed veins and infection of heart lining and related things.... (
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What treatments are there to help people get off heroin?
My sister is 15 and is addicted to heroin. She wants help so my mum is taking her to the doctors to see what treatment they can offer her. Are there rehab centres where the patients do not have to live there? Or will she just have to go to weekly meetings etc? Please explain in detail.
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Sorry, but the treatment for heroin is an in patient one for good reason. While she is coming off of the heroin her body will be going through withdrawal, which anyone knows. With heroin this is very serious for even a 15 yr. old. Since heroin is both mentally and physically addictive this is a very real problem. The body will be going through allot of changes to get back to functioning normal again. This includes heart and respiratory along with the possibility's of seizures, and even convulsions too. She must be in a place that has all the medical people and mental therapists under one roof for awhile. Then, after she is fully out of physical danger, about 30-60 days, they might send her home with referrals to the local therapists and doctors she must see to stay in any reputable therapy. This will most likely include where the NA meetings in your area are. You can go with her if you both want or there are groups and therapy available for you and the family too. This is something the entire family will need to help her and everyone concerned. Please just make sure she knows how much you'll support her when she goes through all of this and you might be able to visit after so long too. She also need to stay completely away from everyone she was hanging with while doing heroin too. These people are not friends of hers anymore. Never let them talk you into thinking otherwise either. She needs to make new friends and even the new people she'll meet in therapy might be questionable, so just try to stay close and be observant too. If she tries to get rid of you chances are it's not legit. Good luck and God Bless (
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How can I tell if a friend is doing heroin?
She has admitted to me that she has experimented with it heroin before, but she doesn't do it regularly. She has become very distant from her family and she has lost about 50 lbs in 4 months. Are these signs that she is still using?
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it depends on how much she's using. ("how bad her habit is") This is how it works. A person can use one bag of heroin and be high allllllllll day. ALL DAY. if you smoke a blunt of weed you'll be high for like an hour and a half maybe 2. Heroin you'll be messed up ALL DAY, soo technically you should be able to get by on one bag a day, but the thing is, you build a tolerance. and it's not like smoking weed where your tolerance takes a while to build up-tolerance for heroin builds really quickly. so in a couple of weeks you can easily go from using just one maybe two bags a day, to using 3 and four, which REALLY quickly turns into 5....6......7......
and heroin addicts get really bad withdrawals ("being sick: bones ache, diarrhea, nervous and jumpin, nauseous, cold clammy skin") when the drug isn't in their system. so a person with a 7bag a day habit will NEED those first 4 bags, just to not get sick, before they even think about chasing the high. the thing about a 7 bag a day habit also, is that each bag is gonna run you like 20 dollars. thats how it is in boston anyway-a bag will run you 20. but lets say somewhere else it's only 10 dollars-thats still 70 dollars a day you have to come up with, JUST to support your habit. (40-50 dollars a day, just to not get sick, but they're addicted to the high so they want it)
the only way to pay for your habit is to run around doing stupid shit: stealing and selling what you steal, prostituting yourself, selling other drugs, etc.
cuz its not like you can have any kind of steady job if you're always getting high and nodding all over the place.
the weight loss is a really good indicator that she's using, probably pretty heavily, cuz she's not really worried about food or her health right now. if she's striahgt at the moment, it's hard to look at her and know she HAS BEEN using, but it's REALLY easy to know if she's high or she recently used.
her eyes will seem distant, and far away, kinda cloudly. she'll be lookin RIGHT at you, but she just seems different. she might have a little spit in the corner or her mouth that she doesn't really seem to notice. she'll be slow, maaaaad slow and chill. she'll touch her face a lot, especially her nose. sometimes she'll look like she's falling asleep, sometimes she'll get right up! whoa!-only for a second though, and then she'll be all woozy again. if she shoots it, you can look for track marks, but thats only if she shoots it, and only if she gets herself somewhere you can see. a common place is your forearm, but a lot of girls do their feet on top, or their hands. but its tricky cuz after a while after all your veins are all messed up, people will go anywhere....ANYWHERE.
if she sniffs it, or smokes (less common cuz it takes longer to get high, and its less intense), you might see the little tiny veins on the side of her nose come out. smoking you cant really tell unless you find her drug stuff- a spoon if she smokes or shoots, to mix it with water and cook it in, or like a bottle cap for mixing, needles duh, little rolled up papers to sniff with, but i'm tellin you....its hard sometimes unless you spend a LOT of time with her cuz she might just put it on the table and smell it off the table. obviously if she just went into the bathroom for like 20 minutes and comes out a a mess, or trying really hard to straighten up, you already know.
all i can really tell you is if you wana be her friend, be her friend. don't be like everyone else in her life that she's scared to come to and be honest with. cuz even if she's acting like an asshole, she's scared, embarassed and ashamed of herself and her life. BE that friend that she can open up to-but be clear-you're there to help her and guide her towards positivity-NOT towards negativity. Do not give that girl money EVER. she's gonna have to go through a lot of bad times and bad experiences before she sees through the haze. trust me....heroin is controlling your homegirl right now she barely even controls herself. watch her. she'll do selfish things that you won't understand. she'll steal from people she's supposed to love and do really stupid things, and then disappear for a long time. but no matter how bad she makes other people in her life feel sometimes nobody is gonna hurt inside like she is. whatever you do don't make her feel even more like crap than she already does. encourage her, love her, and let her know that when she's ready for help you'll be there.
but dont you dare give her money, and don't leave her alone around your shit. (
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