The Most Effective Forms of Heroin Addiction Program

Heroin is among the most addictive and dangerous drugs that a drug addict can use. Sadly it is also very widespread. Very often by the time it reaches the user, the heroin has been mixed with other potentially unsafe substances. These include glucose, Aspirin, talcum powder, vitamin b, coca powder and many other unhygienic substances. This makes more profit for the dealer, but puts the life of the at risk. There’s a very high risk in becoming addicted, if you begin using heroin.

It may sometimes be difficult to realize when an individual has a heroin habit, as abusers will usually be very secretive about what they are doing. Usually they begin by injecting drug into their arms, but when they become more addicted, they’ll inject heroin into their thighs and legs to avoid people seeing their injection marks.

However, as the addiction advances, it becomes easier for the observer to recognize the symptoms of heroin addiction. The physical effects are pronounced and may include infections at the point of injection, cuts bruises and scratch marks, collapsed veins, infections, a craving for sugar and a gaunt and pale looking complexion.

Abuse of heroin basically means that the user has developed a dependency on the drug. There’s a strong compulsion to take the drug, even though the consumer is fully aware that there are significant dangers involved. This dependency is both physiological and psychological.

Physical heroin addiction occurs when the person’s body develops a dependence on the addictive drug. This means that without an input of the substance, physiological unwanted side effects begin to manifest themselves. These are sweating, vomiting, constricted pupils, a dry mouth and a difficulty in breathing. As time passes the body builds up a tolerance to heroin and the abuser then needs higher doses to experience the same effects that an earlier reduced dose would achieve.

Psychological heroin addiction or dependence happens when the person begins to believe that they’re not able to live properly without heroin. The abuser actually begins to think that they cannot get through a normal day without the drug.

Getting addicted to heroin usually includes both, physiological and psychological addiction. That is why heroin abuse is so difficult to overcome and the addict has to receive professional therapy, treatment and counselling. Methadone is usually used as a substitute for heroin and is prescribed by GP’s on a reducing dose to wean an addict of the drug.