Heroin Drug Abuse

Heroin drug abuse has been a very popular form of addiction in the United States and world wide, while its users continue to disregard the many dangers of heroin drug abuse. The scientific name for heroin is Diacetylmorphineis and on the street it is called many names: smack, junk, skag, blow, tar, mud, brown sugar, etc. Heroin drug abuse is hard to stop completely because many users say that they become addicted from the very first time they used the drug. This means that instead of "experimenting" with heroin, drug users quickly started to use heroin on a regular basis and hooked.

One way to find out if you or someone you know is involved in heroin drug abuse is to use a test called the "CAGE Questionnaire" often used to detect alcoholism. Here are a few of the questions:

1. Have you ever felt you out to cut back on your using?
2. Have people ever upset you by criticizing your using?
3. Have you every felt bad or guilty about your using?
4. Have you ever used to steady your nerves or to keep you from being "sick"?

These questions are just a very small beginning into the actual consequences of heroin drug abuse, but if you answered, "yes" to some of them, you should probably seek help. Detoxing off heroin is a long and painful process for most people who have heroin drug abuse problems. The withdrawal symptoms for heroin last about 10-14 days and involve having hot flashes, cramps, intense sweating, nausea, anxiety, hot and cold flashes, insomnia, panic attacks and many other symptoms.

Heroin can be smoked, snorted or injected and today many users believe if they only snort it they cannot become addicted. In reality it is still addictive when snorted and most often users who snort attain such a high tolerance that they have to move to the needle to keep feeling the high. Heroin drug abuse affects all people who get involved with the drug.

Heroin drug abuse causes many problems within a heroin user's life. Heroin lowers the effectiveness of the immune system, contributes to nutritional and sleep problems, causes cramping, stomach problems, distorted perception and hallucinations. The places in which heroin drug abuse occurs are sketchy and dangerous leading to a higher rate of rape, violence and crime where heroin is sold and used.

Heroin is highly addictive and while drug abusers may want to quit, they are unable to do it alone. Heroin drug abuse is a scary, hard problem to deal with but there is help. At Treatment Referral we offer a comprehensive, detoxification and treatment program referrals for those suffering the effects of heroin drug abuse or other substance abuse problems.

Our professional staff and specialists help make the experience of coming down off drugs as pleasant as possible and we keep clients as long as needed for them to stay clean and in recovery. If you or someone you love has a problem with heroin drug abuse, we are here to serve. Contact us with questions or concerns at 800.399.3612; we have a solution you need.