Heroin Addiction: Methadone Facts

heroin addiction - Important information about methadone, its uses and its dangers. The drug methadone is used extensively in addiction treatment.

How do I go about finding a doctor who prescribes methadone for heroin addiction?
I have a son who is in a methadone program. He cannot travel and spend time away from home because he has to go to the clinic every day to pick up his methadone. How do I go about finding a physician in my area who will prescribe methadone for him so that he can travel or even come home to live the nearest clinic to my home is an hours drive away

My friend/boyfriend is a heroin addiction?
I've know this guy for about 2 3 years now. As soon as i met him i had a little thing i liked who he was and how relaxed he was. Soon after he started acting weird and i cut off most contact with him because i found out he was using heroin. I heard horrible things about him for about 6 months about how bad of a junkie he was. Then he went to Florida for about a year and recently just came back he got a hold of me and we started talking again,and i started really liking him again.We've been spending a lot of time together lately and we're dating but I've been noticing he's been acting really strange lately. i know hes messed up,he'll go away for about 15 Min's at the time and come back speech slurred,he'll sit down and start nodding and falling asleep. I've noticed some track marks. I want to confront him,because i cant stand the stupid BS. But i also really care about him and just don't want to leave him. I want to help even though i know he has to want it first.So my question is should i confront him? Will he overreact? How should i do it?Sorry about the novel lolEven if i do leave him i still want to confront him i don't know how do go about doing it. that's what i need help with.He also told me he had quit while he was in Florida

	Methadone helps block the euphoric effects of drugs like heroin and morphine.

Can I help My friend break his heroin addiction cold turkey?
Ok I have educated my self with heroin stories, medical info and withdrawal symptoms. has anyone helped a friends break this Habit whats would be the best way. I have in mind just me and him. if anyone has any opinions or have gone through this any info will help thank you.

Are there any communities that can help a child with heroin addiction?
A mother was addicted to heroin while pregnant and the baby might have a chance of being addicted.Are there any centers that can help treat the baby?Oh sorry,United states Philadelphia,PA

About heroin addiction..?
my dad died, because of a heroin addiction. he had an overdosei don't know much about the topic, and ive researched a little, but i cant really grasp the full picture,i was wondering if anyone could tell me what happens, in a heroin overdose, i saw a horrible picture of a drug overdose victim r.i.p , her body was red and blue and white. please, give me some idea, i want to know what happened, etc. i don't really know exactly. what would his body have done, are you in pain, what exactly happens? if anyone knows anything then please, give me some sort of idea.thank youx

Do you know anyone who overcame heroin addiction?
How did they do it? How long did it take? How long have they been clean?I am not the addict and Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendricks overcame drug addiction by dying of it so that answer was not helpful. I really want to know some of your experiences with drug addicts.

On average, how long does it take to build a strong heroin addiction.?
Would it be realistic, if a character in a movie was given large although not large enough to kill doses of heroin over a few days, or up to a week, would that cause a heroin addiction? Or does heroin addictions, like we see in movies, take longer to build?

How does behavioral psychology explain heroin addiction?


Can you die from heroin addiction withdrawl?
Not for me. But someone I know who recently went to jail. So kinda just wondering.

Has anyone been successful from battling heroin addiction?
Somebody I know is trying to get clean from being addicted to heroin and I just want to know that it is possible, that you CAN live a normal, clean life......Can you guys please give me ur stories.....Even the negative ones......I just need hope

Have you heard the ad on yahoo free radio 'turn to help.com" where heroin addiction is called a disease?
This is just too PC for me. I'm a child of the 60's and a junkie is a junkie, it is not a disease, it is a bad life choice, it's just a case of stupidity, Ignorance has a cure, stupidity is often fatal just not often enough In answer to Normannen, no it is not. See Darwin.

Please read my short poem i wrote about heroin addiction, give feedback?
As the black tar surpasses my veinThese feelings decline, the anger and painI enter a world, so sane and so pureNo longer feel alone, but loved and secureI lie in my bed, I can't stay awakeBut I feel so alive, how much more can I take?Another dose will make me alrightIt'll make me forget, and have peace through the nightBut I wake up before dawn, shivering coldI look for the needle, but that answer is oldBesides, I used it all up the night before lastSo what kind of smack brings me back to the past?Is there such thing? Where can I buy it?You tell me there's help, I no longer deny itThe next morning I arive, dropped off in a carSad that the methadone don't taste as good as the tarAnd I sit in the clinic, so scared and unsure Free me from this I just want to be purei should have put this in the poetry section.

Can heroin addiction be cured by breaking the addict's back at the base of the spine?
This is mentioned in Stephen King's The Dark Tower II The Drawing of the Three." ...where it was really coming from, he knew from what he had read in the medical journals, was from the bunch of living wires at the base of his spine, that place where heroin addiction takes place by causing an unnatural thickening of the nerve stem.Want to take a quick cure? ... Break your spine, Henry. Your legs stop working, and so does your cock, but you stop needing the needle right away." If you have an answer preferably with some proof it would be greatly appreciated, thank you

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