Hello everyone. My roommate/friend that confessed to me about she was a heroin addict. She was using methadone for a while but decided it was harder to get off of that stuff than the heroin. She started using the heroin again. She just recently was admitted into a 10 day clinic for substance abuse to go through withdrawl. She came back and he was looking better than ever. She was alive and talkative. The most noticable thing was that her eyes seemed normal not tiny and unchanging. Lately she has been withdrawing into another room, spends at least an hour in the bathroom when she says she has to go, or staying outside for half an hour to smoke, she has some trouble falling asleep but when she does it is almost impossible to get her to wake up, sometimes she falls asleep on the couch and I can see her twitching,sometimes she goes out to her buddies (who either are users or have used before) place and gets home at strange hours. I am worried because she has a great job and I think that she may be risking her job if she is still using. I confronted her about it but she just gets mad and says that she isn’t using. Can I believe her? I just don’t know anymore. I feel that she is never going to get better and that I should just give up on this friendship.

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Ok here’s what is going on he’s 25 in the hospital right now for heroin addiction and I can’t get any information from them I’ve tried to find the next program for him to go into but I’m now being told that he has to write have an intake and then they will make the decision. Well this isn’t working for me number one I don’t think he will go to the next place he can’t come back here where all his friends and dealers are so what do we do as parents to try and help them. Not only is he dealing with the heroin I now think that they are using methadone and I’m reading up on this drug which really sounds just as bad so he will have to be somewhere that can deal with this too. We are in Massachusetts and the programs here are no help and any where else I can’t afford. I’m a single mom and his dad is no help. He’ll be out in less than 20 days and I don’t know what to do or even how to do this anymore. He hasn’t been in my life for 3 years and I just can’t sit back any longer. HELP

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I don’t understand the whole “purity” thing. I’m doing research on heroin addiction & addicts for a report, and what I can’t seem to find is the answer to this question: How pure does heroin have to be to use it without overdosing?

Like…the more pure it is, the more deadly? Or vice versa?

Thanks to anyone in advance….=)
Candy? Nope. Now you’ve got me all curious.

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