How Bad IS Heroin Addiction?
Question by LaLa: how bad IS heroin addiction?
i mean, how strong or intense is the high?
and how easy is it to get hooked? especially if you WERE hooked before, got clean & started using it again?
AND, how difficult is it to stop? is it THAT hard for an addict to stop usin’ heroin?? what does a heroin addict go thru when they try to quit?
i ask, because yes, there is someone – a close friend of mine – who got clean a year ago, started using heroin again for maybe the last 9 months. i’m wondering if the body is going go to thru hell after 9 months of use, if so is the withdrawal hell for only a week, 4 days, a short timeframe, etc., and how painful are the withdrawals? is it enough to keep them from trying to stop? what are the mental effects? i dont quite understand this drug OR the addiction and i’m trying to know what i’m dealing with ….
p.s. my friend has said she’s gonna stop, went to detox, came out, used again, now she’s out doing whatever she does …. i’m waiting for her to finally go to rehab but someone else close to me told me NOT TO HOLD MY BREATH & to just LET GO OF HER …..
Best answer:
Answer by Kristi
Heroine addiction is perhaps one of the most serious addictions to battle. The drug itself is bad enough, but the way it can change a person just from there living the lifestyle of finding it, buying it, using it and the people around them, is just as bad. Heroine is the primary addiction, the rest are secondary addictions.
In some cases it is best to simply hope for the best and let go of someone if they refuse to get help or continue to use you to get their fix. They have a choice. They can stop or continue. The choice to quit is not easy nor is quitting. But the choice is theirs. If they are aware of the dangers and what it is doing to them, and especially if they’ve been through detox before, the know what to do; they simply don’t do it.
I wish you well and wish your friend well … but you have to know when things are becoming harder for you than they have to be. It’s not selfish to “look out for numero uno,” sometimes doing so takes a lot of courage.
Kristi
Answer by jamie lauren garner
Although I have the unfortunate truth that I used to be a drug-abuser, (I was a bad pre-teenager) I’ve never done heroin. However, I can kind of perceive a mental image of what it would be like. Imagine a world so calm and soothing, an escape from reality, especially where morphine is involved and you’re completely free of pain, and feel all pillowy and amazing.
After encountering something like that, it’s pretty difficult to go back to this regular world. To put it in an analogy, it’s like going to heaven; and being surrounded by everything and everyone you love, being served left and right; and then coming back and sitting in an office. You know?
If someone stopped and started up again, they obviously need more strict guidance. They need a friend…Sometimes you grow out of it, but SEVERE drug abuse, especially heroin, isn’t something you just wait to pass you by. Do whatever it takes.
The best way to get over your own struggles is to help others with theirs. Make her understand that. Do charity work. Help her realize that there’s a lot of people that would kill to be in her spot.
Get her involved…go do lots of interesting things together. Go take a trip to the mountains, and go skiing, or learn how to ballroom dance. Go to church, ride horses, take risks. Go bungee jumping. Something.
Good luck.
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