Heroin Addiction Help Guide

Heroin Addiction Help Guide

My hope is to give some guidance and advice to those out there who are struggling with heroin addiction. I have been an addict myself and have struggled with it for many years and now I am clean and sober.

I think it would be great if everyone could find recovery but unfortunately this is not going to happen. I knew a lot of struggling addicts when I was still on dope who had never really heard of rehab, nor did they have any great urge to go there.

I knew of some addicts who had gone to rehab but they really did not want to stop doing drugs. While they were in treatment, they would be making plans to get high with the little bit of money they had managed to bum off others while there.

I knew a lot of people that blew all their money and ended up homeless. I remember taking my rent money on more than one occasion and buying some dope, telling myself that I would sell it and make my money back and pay the rent.

Well check this out, did you ever see a monkey that could sell bananas? Of course not. So you get the picture. I shot up all the dope and had to once again ask my family to pay my rent. They were great enablers.

If it were not for them paying my bills and lending me money all the time who knows what my life would have been like. I am grateful that they helped me but on the other hand their actions might have kept me using.

I remember riding around town with the gas tank on empty and would not put gas in the car. My thought was I needed it to score drugs. We would end up running out of gas and having to walk to the gas station to get a can.

Then we would walk back with the gas and start the whole routine over again. I think one day we ran out of gas like six times before we got a bag of dope. How crazy is that? I have lived through this madness, thinking all the while that everything was alright.

I remember becoming physically weak, losing like fifty sixty pounds, and when I would look in the mirror I would tell myself “man you are looking good.” This is the extent of my denial; that I did not realize that I looked like the walking dead.

I also recall that when I went to a long stay at rehab, the counselor took our photo when we first got there. After about six months or so she showed me mine. It scared me quite a bit. I saw a dead man.

I could see my cheek bones and I did not have any meat on my bones at all. I felt bad for the person in that picture and it brought tears to my eyes.

I am telling you this so that you don’t have to go through. I am a big one for giving people another chance because I can not tell you how many chances I have got.

I also believe there is hope for everyone. No addict needs to die from the horrors of addiction. Help is available. You can stop using heroin. I normally recommend that addicts start by going to 12 step meetings. Then they can move on to other things like addiction therapy. Once they get a little clean time they can start working on repairing the wreckage of their past. This is how the process starts.