Breaking your addiction, completing a treatment program, and embarking on a drug and alcohol-free life is genuinely liberating. This time of renewed life and energy is precisely the time to think about a relapse prevention plan. There is an old saying: If you’re not planning to succeed, you are planning to fail. Maybe this is a bit harsh, but a …
The heroin use and heroin overdose epidemic are part of the overall problem of opioid addiction in the United States. Every day more than 130 people die of an opioid overdose and this includes heroin overdose. As many as 500 thousand people reported using heroin in the U.S. This has led to more than 80 thousand heroin overdose-related trips …
Heroin is an illegal and highly addictive opioid. The primary reason heroin is so incredibly dangerous is that heroin detox is prolonged, painful, and extremely uncomfortable. Heroin detoxification often called heroin withdrawal, is the medical process by which the body reacts to the absence of heroin. We can make a distinction between withdrawal and heroin detox from a medical …
Heroin withdrawal is arguably the most prominent obstacle to breaking the heroin addiction. Notoriously painful and uncomfortable, heroin withdrawal symptoms alone tend to shut down most attempts at getting sober. The complications which lead to heroin withdrawal are two-fold: the longer you have been using heroin, the more tolerance you build up to the effects of the drug. As a …
Recent statistics show that a little more than 2 percent of people under the age of 26 have used heroin at least once in their lifetime. However, heroin use is not specific to any one age group or demographic. The addiction is powerful and difficult to overcome. Heroin relapse is common even after professional treatment. Heroin relapse is common even …
Opioid addiction is currently a public health emergency. Approximately 2.1 million American’s are suffering from some form of opiate addiction. Many of these are prescribed medications by their doctors. Addiction can set it quickly and many don’t even realize that they’re addicted. Opioid addiction doesn’t just include the addict sitting on a street corner. It includes the housewife that may …
Recovery from opiate and opioid addiction can be particularly difficult because of the physiological changes these drugs can cause to the body and nervous system. Opiate detox and recovery statistics show us that the recovery rates while encouraging, are still alarming. Of the more than 20 million Americans living with a substance abuse disorder, some 591 thousand of these …
In 2017 the United States Department of Health and Human Services declared that opiate addiction was a public health emergency. Approximately 2.1 million people in America are living with some form of opiate abuse problem. Opiate addiction rehab is the first course of action for nearly everyone caught up in this issue. Opiate addiction is difficult if not impossible …
Heroin addicts are often snared in the drug world on their first use of heroin. Those who use heroin on a regular basis will quickly develop a tolerance and require more and more of the drug to get their high, turning this into a Heroin Addiction. The more they’ve used it, the more they’re going to require to find …
Opiate addiction is a growing problem across the country. Four times more people died from unintended overdose deaths from prescription painkillers in 2014 than during 1999. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that about 2.1 million people in the U.S. and between 26.4 and 36 million people worldwide abuse opioids. For someone facing an opioid addiction, withdrawal is …
