Heroin Addiction & Recovery Support Group

Heroin is a highly addictive drug with severe withdrawal symptoms that can start as soon as hours after use of the drug stops. Withdrawal symptoms include extreme sweating and achiness, nausea, vomiting, cramping which causes "kicking," chills, and more. If you are struggling with a heroin addiction, there is help. Join the group and get support.

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positivethinking
positivethinking

Hi. I joined this group to see how people who are suffering/recovering from addiction are doing but also kind of like,,, I don't know. maybe I should start from the beginning here,, my father has a bad meth addiction granted I know this is a heroin support group but that will come into play in a minute. My brother for about 3 years had a heroin addiction, I watched him struggle and steal from me and my mom to support his habit, I watched him fight for his life after overdosing on a mix between I think meth and heroin (and god knows what else). He's recovered since then thankfully but addiction very clearly runs in parts of my immediate family. With this being said, I dealt with a lot of traumatic experiences as a young child being exposed to drugs and things like that. Of course you learn to cope as you go on but lately some memories have been resurfacing and as a defense mechanism my brain (well more so me) has been kinda romanticizing the use of heroin and other substances like whippets etc. i have more of a desire to do whippets than heroin but regardless I'd like to avoid any drug that I could possibly get addicted to. I just need to know, is there hope for me to not follow down their path? Any advice at all please I will take. Even a better insight of WHY people are so easily addicted? like my father never speaks to me anymore since he's unfortunately so fried (I apologize if that's not what I should say to describe his condition) I miss looking in his eyes and still seeing my dad in there somewhere. Behind his eyes it's just nothing anymore and it makes me sad he chose drugs over his family. 

machoorozconpollo
machoorozconpollo
Hello. Sorry no one has replied to you sooner. But to help you better understand .umm I was like that as well. I saw my mom deal with heroin at age seven. Never trying it (but tried everything else ) because I saw what heroin can do to a person. Even though i didnt want to end up like my mom I would still fantasize about using it.. Until I hit 30 years old . and now I've been addicted to it for 11 years. My mom and I didn't have a relationship until I started using. Til this day we use together every chance we get. I know it sounds sickening but what can I do.. Have you've ever heard of that expression, your life is what you make it. If we think about something so much using all of our senses then most likely it will all come true. And thats what happened tome with alot of things actually. I had thoughts in my head that I would be spending some time in jail and I did.i spent a whole week for shoplifting. Ever since I was a little girl the women in my family would tell me to be a stay at home mom and let the husband work. And that's what I do today .i never wanted kids until I turned thirty and had my first at the age of 35. If it was wanying to sleep with a guy I never met but seen him daily, I did. Well we manifest that life we secretly want if we want it hard enough. So I kinda suggest. You stop thinking of the dope. Because im sure you know the hell life it is. And once you become a heroin addict, your life will never ever be the same again. And I'll take that to my grave. I mean that with all my heart . every heroin addict will tell you that. The cravings will never go away. Even when you got years of sobriety on your belt. They stick with you forever. Don't live like that. It's no way to live. Life is beautiful without the dope . and you can never just do it once and never again. When I realized I was hooked it was only a week of me using it. I wish I would of gotten off it then because. The more you use the harder it is to stop. I hope this helps. Let me know if you need anything else . good luck to you.
dr.bill1935
dr.bill1935
Just don't use anything that's questionable. You are on the right track. It doesn't make sense and it never will. My brother is in the same boat and he's 41 and doing fine. I am his heroin addict brother(in recovery). If I could tell you I would. I don't even know you and I love you and don't want you to die. The stuff on the street today is like Russian roulette with three bullets. Find something to believe in: that is the only sustainable relief in this business of addiction.