Symptoms of Heroin Use

[CASEY]

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

[stilltrying1965]

sorry the above message is for you not casey

[stilltrying1965]

I am 34 days clean from a 13 year heroin addiction your son will feel and look normal when he has used heroin .But when he has got no heroin he will be deppresed &cry his emotions will be all over the place as you have already seen there are three ways you can use heroin enjecting snorting or what a heroin addict calls chasing the dragon and it is a brown or white powder chasing the dragon is whe the powder is put on silver kitchen foil and smoked but what you have already been told about heroin is also true you cant do this for your son he needs to want to get clean himself can you get him to come on the site and talk to me or some others who have experinced heroin you can pm me any time i would be more than happy to help all your son needs is the desire to quit this demon of a drug i have never stole from my family never took tv hifi but did go to great lenths to get the money for my next bit of heroin please pm me and ill try mt best to help you and your son when this drug gets a grip it does not let go easily good luck casey

[concerned236]

Online, I typed in my son is a heroin addict and found this site.  I have been throough this for so long.  My son is a groun man in his 40s and last year lost his job in Florida and came back to California because he had no job, no home, etc.  He has been here 1 year and doesn;t have enough money to move out.  He does have a low paying job, but his attitude there is causing them to want to fire him.  He has been to 2 treatment centers for the 4 week program each time.  He has been drinking and I was hoping that he wasn't on drugs.  I have been helping him by letting him stay here for practically nothing.  He is always broke and today I found small packets of herion hidden in his closet.  This is my home, and I refuse to keep helping him and I don't know what to do.  I love my son with all my heart but I am enabling him to do what he does.  He has made so many wrong choices and this is the result.  No wife, no kids, a low paying job, no home and he is depressed most of the time.  Please am I enableing him by letting him stay here.  I don't know how to confront him about what I found.  Help,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Json3]

I have a 20 yr old son who is addicted to Herion. We knew he was doing drugs but did not know what drug. In August he came to us and told us he was going through withdrawals and was addicted to Herion. We were devastated. It was the weekend and could not find a place to get him help. We went through 3 days of horrible withdrawals with him. We "thought" he was over the worst. I noticed he took a quick walk on the 3 or 4th day. What we did not know then was that he went out and got some herion! For about 2 1/2 months we had him in counseling 3 times a week each time for 3 hours. What we did not know was he was doing herion while going to counceling.

We also noticed that a few things were missing from our home, like tools, but he said that they were at a friends home who was borrowing them. About 3 weeks ago our son came to us again and told us he was doing herion and needed help. We were this time able to get him to go a detox place.  While he was in detox I went through his things. I found he had taken things our ours and pawned them or sold them.The detox place normally keeps people for 7 days or more. Our son promised he would stay until he was clean. Our son checked himself out early after being there only 3 full days. He said he was clean and off drugs, we were not sure we wanted to believe him, but were doubtful. Our son is showing signs of doing herion. Not sure, I have not found any drug stuff like I had before. But he has been lying since he has been out of detox, he has been asking for money from people, which he should not need, since he lives at home and has food here etc... I am concerened he is stealing now from other places to get his herion. But dont know for sure. His two best friends believe he is doing herion again, as well as his girlfriend. I have asked him if he was doing herion again and he said no. I think this time he does not want to tell us because he knows how much he has hurt us the last to times we went through this. As well as he is not probably wanting to try to go through detox again, since he knows how bad it can be. The detox place we took him to the second time he asked for help did have meds to help witht he withdrawal symptoms. We plan on all of us getting together this weekend and confronting him with what we feel and know. God willing he will admit to us all he is doing herion again and needs help and this time will stay longer in detox until he is truly clean. Our concern is that he is only on our health insurance until the end of the year, then we are not sure what type of help there is out there for those who do not have insurance.

Another concern of ours is how is he paying for this drug. He has no job right now, so that is why we feel he is stealing. We are concerned that now he could get caught for stealing and thrown into jail and then have a record. That would make getting a job hard when he does get clean.

My husband and I are just broken and sadden over this. We love him dearly and its so frustrating so see him not able to stay away from it and make it through detox. Each time he has spiraled down more with each time we go through this.

Thanks,

Ann

[gflmom]

Well it's late and I have work tomorrow but I got online and found this site.  WOW, thanks for the info. Our 19 yr old daughter left our home at 17 when she ran away with a new boyfriend.  We had her in therapy on and off for cutting and acting out.  Well, she got into drugs and for the past year plus has been doing heroin.  We just found out this past summer by a lawyer!  She spent 2 months in jail for stealing.  We did not bail her out the 2 times nor show up at court.  We did visit her each week.  She got out of jail in 3 wks ago.  We allowed her back in our home with conditions of no drugs and get a job.  She lasted a week and came home high.  She made her leave.
She then found a nearby friend to live with, joined an outpatient center, got a p/t time and comes by often.  Our fear is when this boyfriend gets out of jail she will again drop everything for him.  Another fear is her saying she wants to prove to us, we can trust her, so she can come back to live with us in a few weeks.  If she goes back on the heroin, we will again have to make her leave.  The waiting  of what she will decide is the worst part for me.
We know, we're not the cause or cure.  Just wish she knew how serious we are in our stand.  Any suggestions on how we can have her know without a doubt, we mean what we say so don't relapse!   Thanks

[tiredfriend]

When a person is on H, they will have pinpoint pupils, slowed deep breathing, probably be euphoric and babbling on about whatever(overly interested in things they normally wouldn't care about), slurred speach, may even fall asleep in middle of sentence.