| Heroin addiction is a highly dangerous problem and | | | | subsides. The medicines ensure that they would not |
| can prove fatal to the addicted individual if not | | | | experience the highs and lows even if they were to |
| detected and treated on time. Doctors use medicines | | | | take heroin now. Once the addict shows considerable |
| for the treatment of heroin addiction. The medicines | | | | improvement, the doctors slowly take them off the |
| used in heroin addiction treatment are not meant to | | | | medicines in a gradual manner in order to minimize the |
| be substitutes for the drug. They are actually meant | | | | withdrawal symptoms. From all this we can draw the |
| to free the patient from heroin addiction. | | | | conclusion that medicines used in the treatment of |
| Some of the medicinal drugs used for treating | | | | heroin addiction are not substitute drugs, but are |
| addiction to opiates like heroin are methadone, | | | | meant to eradicate the strong craving for heroin. |
| buprenorphine and LAAM. When an opiate like heroin | | | | Other than medications, the patients also undergo |
| is ingested into the body through mouth, injection or | | | | physical and emotional therapy for the healing of their |
| nose, it creates a temporary euphoric effect in the | | | | body and mind. They learn ways and techniques to |
| body and mind of the person. They get a | | | | abstain from heroin whenever the craving arises. |
| momentary feeling of excitement and "high". | | | | Physical therapy includes activities like taking regular |
| However, this feeling wears down soon enough and | | | | walks along the beach or in natural surroundings, |
| the phase that follows is full of depression and | | | | exercising, cycling and meditation. Emotional therapy |
| frustration. This sudden crash disturbs the mind and | | | | involves making the patient realize through counseling |
| as a result the person craves for more heroin so that | | | | the deep-rooted reasons for their heroin addiction. |
| they can feel the same euphoric effect again. This | | | | They are trained to let go of the negative feelings |
| becomes a vicious cycle of addiction and addicts | | | | attached to these reasons. The patients learn to deal |
| keep taking resort to heroin to feel this feeling of | | | | with their craving for heroin without giving in to the |
| artificial euphoria and excitement. This vicious pattern | | | | urge. |
| of euphoria, crash and the resultant craving results in | | | | Treatment for heroin addiction cannot be conducted |
| major fluctuations in the body and mind. It affects | | | | at just any treatment center. A special license is |
| the physical and mental dynamics of a person and | | | | granted by the state to the institute authorized to |
| causes increasing harm to them. | | | | conduct heroin addiction treatment. The medicines |
| Medicines like methadone or buprenorphine are | | | | are administered to the addicts under the strict |
| administered to the addicted person by well-qualified | | | | guidance and supervision of professionally qualified |
| doctors having a clear understanding of the dosage | | | | doctors. Craving for heroin in addicts is too intense |
| to be given to the patient. These medicines do not | | | | and making them abstain from the drug is sure to |
| create the same level of euphoria in the body nor do | | | | lead to major withdrawal symptoms. Without the |
| they cause feelings of fluctuating patterns. The | | | | help of medicines, it would be absolutely difficult to |
| mental and physical dynamics caused by these | | | | cure the addiction. Medicines help in keeping the |
| medicines are much more stable in comparison to the | | | | withdrawal symptoms in check and eradicating the |
| effects of heroin. Through the medication used in | | | | craving for heroin, ensuring that the patient is |
| addiction treatment the addict's craving for heroin | | | | liberated from their addiction. |