Heroin Dependency

Heroin dependency, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Health, can cause serious health problems, including fatal overdosing, spontaneous abortion, collapsed veins, and infections diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. The drug is processed from morphine (a naturally occurring substance extracted from the Asian poppy plant), and users frequently become addicted to heroin. It depresses the central nervous system, clouding the user's mental functioning. Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder, with street names that include "smack," "H," "skag," and "junk."

The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear shortly after a single dose and disappear in a few hours. After a heroin injection, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria, accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heaviness in the extremities. Following this initial rush, the user goes "on the nod," a state of alternating wakefulness and drowsiness. Long-term effects of heroin appear after repeated use. Those addicted to heroin may develop collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses (pus-filled pockets inside inflamed, infected tissue), cellulitis (a bacterial infection of the skin), and liver disease. Pulmonary complications, including various types of pneumonia, may result from the poor health condition of the user addicted to heroin, as well as from the drug's depressing effects on respiration.

Reports from SAMHSA's 1995 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), which collects data on drug-related hospital emergency room episodes and drug-related deaths from 21 metropolitan areas, rank heroin as the second highest drug involved in drug-related deaths. From 1990 to 1995, the number of heroin-related episodes doubled. Between 1994 and 1995, there was a 19 percent increase in heroin-related emergency department episodes.

Traditional methods of treatment for Heroin dependency-talk therapy along with medicinal treatment to lessen the pain of withdrawal-often have low success rates (less than 10% after the first year) due to Heroine's powerful, physically addictive properties. A newer and quicker method of Heroin detox is Accelerated Neuro-Regulation (ANR), a rapid drug treatment that is being used with increasing success for opiate dependency. ANR, also known as the Waismann Method of rapid detox, treats Heroin dependency as a physical disease that can be overcome with advanced medical techniques. ANR eliminates the cravings that often accompany traditional opiate detox treatments. The Waismann Method has been clinically proven to be effective for those addicted to heroin.

During Heroin detox using ANR or the Waismann Method, the body's opiate receptors are cleansed of opiates while the patient is anaesthetized and asleep. The goal is to rid the body of physical heroin dependency: the patient literally sleeps through physical withdrawal. The Waismann Method reports higher success rates in treating opiate dependency than do clinics utilizing more traditional techniques.

If you or someone you know may be addicted to Heroin, contact the Heroin dependency experts today and break the chain of opiate dependency with rapid Heroin detox by Waismann Method.