Category: Heroin treatment

Heroin Laced With Fentanyl

While heroin is a commonly known drug, you might’ve heard lately about heroin laced with Fentanyl, yet not know much or anything about Fentanyl. Here is a description: Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, meaning it is made in a laboratory but acts on the same receptors in the…

Opiates and Politics

In the last decade opiate use has risen significantly. Overdoses and deaths from opiate use are increasing at a frightening rate. Whether it’s opiates like heroin or morphine or synthetic opioids like Percocet or Oxycodone, there’s no difference when considering the consequences of addiction and misuse and possible solutions. When a person develops…

Treating Heroin Addiction

The good news in the midst of the heroin epidemic is that treating heroin addiction is possible and recovery is likely if a comprehensive treatment plan is followed long term. There are many recovering heroin addicts in Narcotics Anonymous who’ve been drug free for decades….

Understanding Heroin

It’s difficult to find fundamental solutions when a problem is misunderstood as symptomatic of something else – the application of symptomatic solutions to perceived symptomatic problems leads in circles with no real resolution. Heroin, though it’s been around since at least 3400 BC, is…

Heroin Addiction and Recovery Management

Treatment of heroin addiction is only the first step. All addicts who want to recover should first learn about heroin addiction and recovery management. Most treatment for heroin addiction includes medication to get past the withdrawals. Buprenorphine and Methadone are the two primary drugs used for…