Heroin Addiction

How Heroin Will Ruin Your Quality Of Life

Heroin is dangerous.  Heroin addiction increases the chances of you contracting a serious disease. Often, HIV is contracted from sharing needles with others or because it lowers your inhibitions you are more likely to engage in unprotected sex.

In the short term, heroin will cause some changes in your body. First-time users will feel nauseous, and even experienced users will throw up at times. Long term, you’ll lose weight at an alarming rate, and your appearance will be completely different.

If heroin does not kill you, it will ruin your quality of life because heroin floods the brain binding to receptors that control pain, pleasure, heart rate, breathing and sleeping.

There are also many unpleasant long-term side effects:

• Insomnia
• Collapsed veins
• Tissue damaged inside the nose
• Heart infections
• Abscesses
• Stomach cramps and constipation
• Kidney disease
• Liver disease
• Lung complications
• Mental health issues
• Sexual dysfunction in men
• Irregular menstrual cycles in women

However, getting rid of your heroin addiction will not be easy. You’ll have to live with some severe withdrawal symptoms.

Heroin Addiction Treatment

The withdrawal symptoms stated above, are serious. That is why it is extremely important, that you do your heroin rehab in a controlled environment, where there are professionals to guide you through your struggles.

At Ocean Recovery Centre we can help you recover from your addiction. Heroin addiction treatment is a gradual process, which will work out in a few steps.

Step 1: Heroin Detox

Heroin detox means cleansing your body of the substance. Withdrawal symptoms will follow the detox once the heroin is out of your system. Heroin has a short half-life.

That means that the duration of the effects of the drug is fairly short, and it will be out of your system in a few hours. In comparison with cannabis for instance, which has a half-life of a full month.

Step 2: Post-Detox

A very important step on the road to recovery from heroin addiction is the post-detox. This stage is aimed towards changing your behaviour and way of thinking, so you will not have the urge to start doing heroin again.

Many drug and alcohol rehab centres will use rehabilitation techniques like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This is a therapeutic treatment with the aim to improve your awareness of your triggers.

Triggers are specific things or situations, that will start your craving for heroin. For example, you might have had a stressful day and you feel like injecting yourself will make you feel much better. That thought process can be stopped with the help of CBT.

Ocean Recovery also provides other psychological therapies, trauma and abuse counselling, and stress management. Well-being therapies, art therapy, sleep management therapy, and nutritional therapy.

Along with social activities, quiz and film nights and family visits. And all of these treatment options will be delivered at our state-of-the-art facilities located in extensively refurbished accommodations in Blackpool, Lancashire.

Another successful treatment method is medication. In the United Kingdom, the use of methadone is allowed to treat people with heroin addiction.

Methadone is a synthetic drug that was originally manufactured as a painkiller but has also been used as a substitute for heroin. It mimics the effects of heroin and will be gradually reduced over time.