Detox from Heroin




Not everybody suffers all the symptoms or the most severe ones; the severity of symptoms usually depends on the length and frequency of heroin abuse.
Another factor is whether or not heroin contains fentanyl or carfentanil.

Medication-Assisted Detox for Heroin


  1. Clonidine
  2. Buprenorphine (Subutex or “subs”)
  3. Buprenorphine with naloxone (Suboxone or “subs”)
  4. These detox medicines aim to ease the physical discomfort and help the user get some sleep.
    The last item is not the least important because your counselor will facilitate your entry in the most import part of detox, recovery-sensitive therapy, the moment you are able to participate.

    Heroin detox medicine such as buprenorphine should be discontinued as soon as possible because buprenorphine maintenance has also changed into buprenorphine addiction.
    How do we know?
    Back in the 60s most heroin addicts graduated therapy-impoverished-heroin-detox with methadone addiction labeled “methadone maintenance,” which underscores the hazards of getting buprenorphine from an outpatient buprenorphine licensed physician that is not part of a comprehensive recovery-sensitive therapy treatment program (subs have continue to be popular street drugs and prison drugs).
    Methadone (meth) is also addicting, but like oxycodone (oxy) it doesn’t cause as much sedation (meth & oxy yield more opioid-receptor-derived dopamine than heroin).
    In addition, since its longer acting than heroin, meth relieves addicts of the need for a “fix” every few hours.
    Therefore, switching to methadone can allow a heroin addict to lead a relatively normal life.
    Over time, the methadone dosage is reduce to nothing, thus weaning the addict from all drug use.
    However, methadone dependence is notoriously hard to kick.

    Long-term recovery for heroin users is often made difficult by malnutrition, sexual infections, and diseases associated with intravenous drug use.
    These diseases include acquired immune deficiency (AIDS) and hepatitis. In fact, intravenous drug users in many areas of the country are the group with the highest risk of developing AIDS.

    “Denial” is one less thing to have to focus-on during heroin recovery-sensitive therapy.
    That’s because the marijuana addict struggling with the idea that: “I’m not at all like a heroin addict.”
    Heroin addicts rarely if ever say: “I’m not aa bad as other heroin addicts.”

    Reach Out
