Heroin dependence

Heroin is considered one of the most dangerous drugs of our time. This scourge is not only for law enforcement agencies and drug departments, but also a real plague for hundreds of thousands of people who "sit down" on him, as well as for their relatives and friends. Heroin dependence is a terrible misfortune, because there is no antidote for it, and it is very difficult to treat such a drug addict. After all, the "dose" becomes the meaning of his life, and the personality disappears. In fact, a person, in the literal sense of the word, ceases to exist.

Signs of heroin addiction

The fact that a person takes drugs, you can find out by simply carefully watching him. Suspicions should cause sharp mood swings, depressive lack of appetite, changes in behavior. The correct symptoms of the heroin addiction are the following:

• a constant wearing of clothes with a long sleeve, even in the heat, to hide the marks of injections on the hands;
• a person completely changes his character , he seems alien;
• there is apathy and lack of interest in everything, constant drowsiness and indifference;
• absent "unseeing" view, constantly narrowed pupils, even in case of insufficient illumination, although in healthy people they usually expand;
• periodic bad state of health - during the breakdown due to lack of a "dose";
• the constant need for money, the propensity to steal, taking valuable things out of the house, perhaps even driving to the police about petty thefts.

Consequences of heroin addiction

As noted above, the most terrible thing is the complete disintegration of the individual . This includes not only antisocial behavior, but also the emergence of dangerous diseases, such as HIV and AIDS or chronic pathologies of the heart, liver, nervous system, mental disorders. Heroin addicts do not live for a long, very often they die quite young from the exceeded dose, actually killing themselves with their own hands through carelessness.

Treatment of heroin addiction

To get rid of heroin addiction it is possible only with the help of specialists in the rehabilitation center. The treatment is complex, it lasts no less than six months, and then the addict is under surveillance for a long time. At the first stage, detoxification is performed to relieve pain from "breaking", after which psychologists work with patients to restore interest to life and find in it a different meaning, in addition to narcotic euphoria.