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 Treatment for Habitual Heroin Users: When heroin was first introduced to the medical community at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was used to help people overcome opium and morphine addiction. Heroin was considered a "step-down" drug. However, the cure was worse than the original addiction. It is no coincidence that heroin was the first opiate product declared illegal in the United States. Once a dependence is established, it is very difficult to end. The "rapid detox" method used in New Jersey in the 1990s was declared illegal after nearly a dozen patients ended up in emergency rooms with life-threatening complications. Many of those who successfully completed the "rapid detox"—being put to sleep while an opiate ANTAGONIST, Narcan, was shot into the brain—returned to heroin use due to inadequate psychiatric follow-up. The dream of easy, pain-free detoxification from heroin has remained just that—a dream. Typically, heroin addicts undergo several steps before seeking treatment. First, they come to recognize that the drug has altered their lives. This may happen when a marriage breaks up, when an addict resorts to crime to pay for drugs, when a friend dies of an overdose, or when an addict begins to have serious health problems related to drug use. At that point addicts might decide to continue to use heroin simply to avoid any withdrawal symptoms. In the next step, addicts may ask about the types of help they can expect and talk to health care workers about what might happen in an inpatient setting |
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heroin overdose deaths on the rise
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Police and doctors believe a local resurgence ...
Man Gets Prison Time For Selling Sugar As Heroin
LEBANON, Pa. -- A Lebanon County man was stunned Wednesday ...
Heroin Problem Is Not New To Drug Culture Insiders
It has been in the headlines. Last month three Newtown ...
Clean break
A self-employed contractor from Middletown Springs told a judge he ...
Cops bust heroin dealers
JEWETT CITY -- Borough warden Cynthia Kata readily admits she ...
Man sentenced on heroin charge
Darryl Winkfield was just looking for someone to give him ...
Pakistan warns of surging heroin supply
ISLAMABAD : A senior Pakistan official on Monday claimed that ...
Cops: Heroin, cocaine seized in 2 busts
In separate drug busts, Jersey City East and West District ...
heroin overdose deaths on the rise
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Police and doctors believe a local resurgence ...
Man Gets Prison Time For Selling Sugar As Heroin
LEBANON, Pa. -- A Lebanon County man was stunned Wednesday ...
Heroin Problem Is Not New To Drug Culture Insiders
It has been in the headlines. Last month three Newtown ...
Clean break
A self-employed contractor from Middletown Springs told a judge he ...
Cops bust heroin dealers
JEWETT CITY -- Borough warden Cynthia Kata readily admits she ...
Man sentenced on heroin charge
Darryl Winkfield was just looking for someone to give him ...
Pakistan warns of surging heroin supply
ISLAMABAD : A senior Pakistan official on Monday claimed that ...
Cops: Heroin, cocaine seized in 2 busts
In separate drug busts, Jersey City East and West District ...
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Fugitive accused of driving with kids in car after taking cocaine.
