Have you ever been or do you know someone who has been addicted to heroin?

Question

I hear it's the worst addiction and the worst addiction to break. Is that true?

Don't worry, I will never try it, EVER.

Answer 1

I have never seen heroin ...and don't need to see or know anyone involved with it...

Answer 2

I personally have never done any drugs but I know a lot of people who have. I guess the worst thing about it is they can't be trusted any more. Besides ruining there health they can't hold a job, so they have to do whatever it takes to get there drug of choice. I've been in the bar with a dope fiend friend of mine and came back from the bath room and noticed some of the money I had on the table was missing. I've had long distant calls on my phone to the Dominican Republic after a dope fiend Friend of mine needed a place to stay and I let him spend the night. The guys I know don't mean any harm but they can't be trusted. They lie and scheme and do what ever it takes to get there dope. They steal and scheme and steel whatever they can. I distanced my self a long time ago. It is not a world I wish to be around. They were doing coke, heroin, and crystal meth. As for as the most addictive I don't know. At one time or another I heard each one was the most addictive. I just want to say I never hang out with them they were guys I went to school with and knew around the neighborhood. I'm not a mental giant by any stretch of the imaginenation. But I grew up in the projects of St. Louis - the Cochran- projects and dope was not hard to get. So if you are even thinking about just trying a little, DON'T. Some people are hooked the very first time. Some people can just chip at it. Why take the chance? It's like playing Russian Roullet, you wouldn't do that would you? Oh, I almost forgot it tears there family apart too.

Answer 3

I am a female corrections officer and have personally never done heroin but of some of the Inmates that I come into contact with the addiction is great.
Talking to an Inmate now......the Inmate that I just spoke with states that it is one of the most worst drugs to come down from, but says methadone is worse. (S)he also states that coming down from heroin is like the flu just multiplied by at least 10. The Inmate states that you can't get out of bed and sometimes vomit and you may go to the bathroom on yourself. I'm also told that this all can last from one week to two months.
Now if that sounds like a good time, think again. I've seen first hand what people look like and it doesn't seem very nice.

Answer 4

I had a friend in college with a $30 a day heroin habit. She quit and relapsed several times while I knew her. Finally she made a huge effort when her parents threatened to cut her off. She said the withdrawal was so bad, she seriously considered dropping out of college and becoming a full-time junkie. And her usage was pretty minor as far as heroin habits go. I heard from her recently and she's in grad school, so she must have kicked the habit or at least kept it under control.

The reason the addiction is so hard to break is biochemical. Heroin mimics the chemicals in your brain that block pain. Your brain interprets the heroin as an excess of those chemicals, and shuts down its own production to try to compensate. When you go off heroin, all your pain sensors start firing full bore because there's nothing stopping them anymore. You're in excruciating, nonstop pain, and you'll basically do anything to make it go away, which means taking more heroin.

Answer 5

I do know lots of people addicted to heroin. I work in the mental health field. How worst this specific addiction is really depends on the individual.

Answer 6

Yes. My 26 year old brother is a former heroin addict. He used heavily for nearly 3 years. During that course of time, he nearly died a few times from overdosing, stole, was in jail twice, and just overall became a completely different person. He stole money from family, jewelry (even my engagement ring)... anything he could pawn. Everything that came out of his mouth was a lie during this time... it was all about getting more. He hallucinated often and felt paranoid... looking out the window thinking people were spying on him. He scratched his sore until they became 2 inch wide open wounds. And he even got Hepatitis from sharing a needle and sleeping with another heroin addict. It came to such a horrible point that I found myself praying to God to please end his suffering. He is one of the few lucky ones who has been clean for about 3 years now. He entered a recovery program at Youth Challenge, became more of a spiritual person and is now on his 3rd year of university.

There are two others I know who died from heroin overdoses. The first, my guy's step-brother, developed the addiction and died within 8 months from the time he started. They found him in a hotel room in a bad area. The guy with him had stolen his shoes from his feet and fled the scene. The second was a very good friend who we hadn't talked to in a while because she started hanging out with a new crowd. She was 2 months from her 21rst birthday. Her parents found her dead in her bedroom. She'd died in the middle of the night in the very same house as them. The coroner said he could tell from her tox tests that this was her first time doing it.

I hope you aren't asking this question because you are curious and contemplating doing this drug. It is definitely true... this is the worst drug habit to develop and the most deadly. Not something to ever be taken lightly.

Answer 7

Yes. My ex-husband was and my ex-boyfriend was. My ex-husband never was rid of his addiction and overdosed and died. The ex-boyfriend did overcome his addiction with the help of NA after several hospitalizations. He finally had to move to another state where he no connections and kicked cold turkey. Approximately only two percent of heroin addicts are successful at actually becoming free of the addiction. Methadone does not help. It only keeps you from becoming sick when you can't find any heroin.

Answer 8

yes I have been aound that scene and have had friends succumb to it.

It is indeed a powerful and horrible addiction - although nowadays, I think its eclipsed by crystal and crack.. both of which completely fry your brain to the pont of insantity.. and where a heroin junkie can actually lead a fairly normal life and even hold down a job (proven in free heroin trials conducted in Europe and here in Canada, where they aren't out on the street hustling to score) crak and meth-heads need to do drugs so constantly and they are so removed from reality that they cannot function in normal society.

Word to the wise, if this is something touchin YOUR life.. "NEVER trust a junkie".. I tell you this from personal experience, and was advice passed on to me by an old reformed street junky (RIP).. Junkies will steal lie and cheat to get their fix - they don't respect you or anyone, let alone themselves.. I know this because I tried to help a friend clean up once, he totally robbed us and later after he had burned ALL his bridges, went sobbing to his momma, manipulated her into taking him in and then robbed her blind - including her pain meds (she was very ill and bedridden at the time).

remember: NEVER TRUST A JUNKY

Answer 9

I've had neighbors with heroin addictions and from seeing them like that it's obvious that it is the worst addiction to break. It has wreaked havoc on their lives.

Answer 10

Guy #1 was 19 and I was 15 - I was over at a friends house and his older bro was having a party. He couldn't get heroin so he shot up some bleach powder and locked himself in the closet. The next morning people found him, yes, he was dead.

Guy #2 is 28 and I've only met him a few times - he's best friends w/ a friend of mine... and... he's od... brilliant programmer on computers, excellent hacker - but from what I understand from my friend he never sleeps. Is always up, always on the computer. He reminded me of a very nervous rat like in the old Warner Brother cartoons. He was very jittery, constantly picking at his neck or hair or knees like if they itched and he was trying to pinch them. He combed his hair down every few minutes. He constantly was looking around, he jumped at the mention of his name.

When we ate, I caught him checking the salt grains on the table, he kept sniffing them and then dropping them back down on the table. He grabbed the same grains a few times... I don't think he realized he was doing that.

Answer 11

I work at a detox facility.
Yes it's a nasty addiction and the withdrawal is not fun. The only thing worse is methadone withdrawal.
I think acohol and heroin are equally difficult to break.