Question 1

does heroin cause low blood sugar diabetics?

Accepted Answer

Generally not: But if you do not eat and take medication as prescribed, both high and low sugars are possible. Why not seek help with your heroin drug problem before you destroy your body and your life?

Question 2

what is a good way to stop heroin cravings?

Accepted Answer

Buprenorphine.: Taking methodone or buprenorphine will usually eliminate cravings.  The latter is the best opioid dependence treatment available today.  Unfortunately, only 3% of physicians have the DEA waiver to prescribe it.

Question 3

can any doc tell me what's the best way to stop heroin cravings?

Accepted Answer

A combination of: Medical and social support.  The physical withdrawal and cravings can be very intense, and medical detoxification is strongly recommended. This needs to be together with psychosocial treatment - counseling, psychological and emotional support from peers and professionals. A blocking agent (naltrexone, vivitrol) is available, and for many people, a period of maintenance with buprenorphine/methadone.

Question 4

does methadone really work for heroin addicts?

Accepted Answer

No so fast: May be Methadone can get the person off heroin, which decrease mortality of street drug--but getting off Methadone is even more difficult and still high mortality.

Question 5

can somebody tell me how can methadone help heroin addicts?

Accepted Answer

In many ways: Opiate addicts mostly use very short-acting drugs like heroin or oxycodone, which they have to dose 4-6 times a day, and their bodies and brains (and minds) are constantly cycling between high-normal-low, with very destructive effects on neurotransmitters in the brain. Methadone (or suboxone) is long acting, can be taken once daily, and stops this vicious cycle. For some its shortterm, others long.

Question 6

suboxon isnt working anymore im a heroin addict . i need so much subs an still feel withdrawls?

Accepted Answer

Unfortunately: Suboxone only works about 40%of the time.  Cconsider Methadone or (dare i say it) abstinence.  Naltrexone during abstinence will reduce craving and improve sense of well being.

Question 7

if someone who is a heroin addict throws up everyday, sometimes more then once, is it more then likely the heroin? or could it be something else?

Accepted Answer

Either: Vomiting is a common symptom of heroin withdrawal. Heroin is very short acting and highly addictive. Your body starts to need it and the more you use the more your body needs. Within a few hours most of the heroin leaves your body causing withdrawal symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea, muscle cramps, and "the shakes."  vomiting can also be due to many other illnesses.

Question 8

what to do if my sister is a heroin addict?

Accepted Answer

For her, nothing you: Can do except tell her how you feel.  For yourself, getting family counseling and/or attending alanon meetings (a self-help group for family members of addicts) can help you deal with your guilt, shame, anger, concern and all the other feelings you likely have. Nobody can make anybody else change - she has to want to. People in alanon or counselors can help you understand what you can;can't do.

Question 9

how much heroin is needed to create an addict?

Accepted Answer

Any amount: The obsession with use, and the compulsion to use can operate at any amount of the drug.

Question 10

what would happen if a heroin addict was locked up without any heroin?

Accepted Answer

Heroin: This is real life. There are many instances wherein a person in prison has no access to the abused product. Well you just go through a wicked withdrawal.

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