Heroin Addiction
We are a call centre here to support and facilitate the process of getting you or your loved one into detox and/or treatment for drug and alcohol misuse. We work with the best facilities in the country and have lived a life of addiction ourselves. We are in Recovery now and want to help those still struggling.
Addiction is a chronic disease that deeply affects the way our mind and body functions. It is not uncommon for the byproducts of addiction to result in negative outcomes in almost all areas of someone’s life. Addiction is a progressive, fatal disease, but treatable.
For many people, heroin is the last opioid many people try. What starts out as opioid prescription leads to buying illegal heroin from the streets. Prescription users become physically dependent on highly addictive opioids, but can no longer obtain a legal doctor prescription. People also use it to number their pain of anxiety or depression. Heroin is also much cheaper than other opioids. What used to be described as a low demographic street using drug has affected all walks of life across the country.
Heroin is a dangerous narcotic that is highly addictive and is typically injected, snorted or smoked to produce a euphoric state. Regardless of the method of ingestion, repeated use of heroin can lead to extreme physical and psychological dependence.
Signs of Heroin Use:
- Fatigue followed by patterns of alertness
- Shallow or labored breathing
- Injection wounds, track marks, needle marks
- Infections on the skin from injections, boils
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Small, constricted pupils
- The appearance of “distant” gazing eyes (some say heroin steals the soul)
- Lack of motivation
- Placing distance from friends and family members or hanging out with a new group of people
- Disorientation or poor motor function
- Communication flaws, difficulty speaking, slurring speech
- Lack of memory, forgetting things or not remembering important events or matters
- Long, droopy, heavy extremities
- Itching
- Constipation
- Unexplained Weight loss
Heroin Withdrawal symptoms:
- Agitation
- Anxiety
- Muscle aches and pain
- Bone pain
- Tearing of the eyes
- Insomnia
- A runny nose
- Sweating
- Yawning
- Abdominal cramps
- Diarrhea
- Dilated pupils
- Goosebumps
- Chills
- Nausea
- Vomiting
Take the first step towards recovery and a healthy, happy, drug-free life and call us, or schedule a free, no obligation consultation on heroin addiction rehab therapy treatment.