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Symptoms of Heroin Use

I need help knowing what I am looking at. My son uses heroin. His behavior faciliates between bouts of crying, feeling abandonded, hopeless, depressed and periods of apparent well-being where he is calm, psychologically present, reasonable. He attributes his despair to clinical depression which he has. I am sure the drugs are contributing. I am not sure if the periods of calm are immediatley following injection and the despair is withdrawal or coming down. When I confront him, I want to know what I am talking about. I support his recovery 100% but don't know how to bring it about. thanks, Casey
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My husband is a heroin addict and been on a methodone script for over 3 years and keeps blipping and hiding his methodone he breaks my trust all the time and blames me for him using his calm one minute and really horrible the next and I'm pregnant with his second child and miscarried in January he makes me feel like I'm going mad and crazy please I need some advice
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I work in a drug and alcohol rehab center for felons. Asking if the symptoms will be as bad is like asking if drowning in a pint of water is different then drowning in a gallon of water. Heroin was and still is considered the worlds most dangerous drug, simply because of how addicting it can be. If your doing small doses then your body may not have built up a large dependency on it and the withdraw MAY BE less severe, but with draw period is hell. I have seen guys come in and they had been on a very low dose of dope for a long time and the withdraw was still just as bad. But i have also seen people on low dose tolerance and the withdraw was bad but not as bad. Being a nurse you should already know prolly but H is the only drug, i believe, that withdraws will not kill you. You may wish to die but u wont. if you are really that worried and want to try to minimize your withdraw symptoms i recomend not going cold turkey but slow ease off it. Instead of doing "x" amount every day cut it in half, then once ur comfortable do it once a day, then once every other day, then once every three days etc etc...My ex had a problem with H and this is how she cleaned up and is now one of the happiest people ive ever meet. Well i hope this advice helps and best of luck to you. And about the love of your life....well not to talk Sh*t about someone i dont know but the fact that he let you try H and allowed you to become addicted doesnt sound much like love to me, just my oppinion.
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Years ago I was in a relationship with a drug abuser, I broke it off because I couldn't take the turmoil. Now, I would tell someone to break it off because the user needs to completely focus on their recovery above anything else.
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I was seeing this lovely lad for 7months 3months go he went really distant,its a long distance relationship,last week he blanked my calls and txt's and told me not 2 contact him again so I left it afew days then asked him if there was somone eles! He replyed saying he's a bag head and bin in and out of jail for years up until 3yrs ago wen he started his own bussiness,but its became a problem again and he's tryin 2 sort his life out! He said he don't inject it he smocks it and hates it! I don't no what 2 do I have txtd him and wrote 2 him but he's ignoreing all my contact! Do I leave hin for a while or keep tryin 2 contact him?
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Hi Don. This thread is 10 years old and full of dozens of peoples stories, so you probably won't get any response. Go to the top of this page, and click the green button that says "Ask a question" and follow the directions and ask your question that way. It will start a new thread for you and people will comment.
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how long after hypodermic needle use can the wound be black and blue- is this a sign of recent use?
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