No matter how you started using heroin, it doesn’t take long for you to become hooked on the drug. But once you’ve experienced the high that comes with heroin use, you want more. You’ll get hooked before you know it if you try it once.
The High has its Problems
Heroin is associated with morphine and has a chemical structure similar to endorphins. Endorphins help the body feel happy and relieve stress and pain. When used, heroin changes an alteration in mood, consciousness, and perception. When heroin enters the brain, it is converted into morphine, which binds itself to opioid receptors and produces an intense feeling of pleasure. It’s a feeling you’ll want again and again. Before you know it, you’re hooked. Next, the withdrawal symptoms start if you don’t use heroin for several hours.
Withdrawal symptoms start very soon (eight hours) after heroin use and may include:
- Drug cravings
- Stomach cramps
- Moodiness
- A runny nose and perspiration
- Moodiness
- Restlessness
- DT’s
- Diarrhea
- Spasms in muscles
- Fever and chills
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Increased heart rate and blood pressure
As you continue to use heroin, your body’s ability to make endorphins stops. So the only way you can feel healthy and pain-free is by using heroin. Psychological issues also occur when you are no longer using heroin. These nasty issues can begin as early as 10 hours after your last use of the drug and may increase in intensity the longer you go without the drug. You didn’t know that your brain, your health, and your life would be permanently altered by heroin. You wish someone would have let you know what you were getting into before your first hit.
You may think it’s too late to do anything about your problems, but you are wrong. We have counselors ready and waiting to help you get off heroin safely. Detoxing alone may be hazardous to your health, and is unpleasant. But you can get off drugs with some professional help from the experts who have assisted others in getting drug-free. You can have your life, health, and sanity back.
Now that you realize that heroin destroys lives, it’s time to get off heroin and beat your addiction. We want to help you in getting off heroin for good. Contact us at 844-903-2111 for more information and start your new, drug-free life now.