British Columbia heroin rehab

Searching for Heroin Rehab treatment in British Columbia for a loved one or yourself can be an overwhelming process. What type of treatment is best to battle Heroin addiction? What is the ideal length of treatment? Should the Heroin detox and rehabilitation be in a residential program or an outpatient program?

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Heroin is a highly addictive painkilling drug derived from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on the streets as "black tar heroin." Although purer heroin is becoming more customary, most street heroin is "cut" with other drugs or with substances such as sugar, starch, powdered milk, or quinine. Street heroin also can be cut with strychnine or other poisons. Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at risk of overdose or death. Heroin also poses special problems because of the transmission of HIV and other diseases that can occur from sharing needles or other injection equipment.

Heroin is commonly injected, sniffed/snorted, or smoked. A heroin addict can inject up to four times a day. Intravenous injection provides the greatest intensity and most rapid onset of euphoria (7 to 8 seconds), while intramuscular injection provides a relatively slow onset of euphoria (5 to 8 minutes). When heroin is sniffed or smoked, peak effects are usually felt within 10 to 15 minutes.

Immediate effects;

Soon after injection (or inhalation), heroin crosses the blood-brain barrier. In the brain, heroin is converted to morphine and binds rapidly to opioid receptors. A feeling of pleasurable sensation - a "rush." The intensity of the rush is a function of how much drug is taken and how rapidly the drug enters the brain and binds to the natural opioid receptors. Heroin is particularly addictive because it enters the brain so rapidly. With heroin, the rush is usually accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, dry mouth, slurred and slow speech, drowsiness, reduced coordination, and a heavy feeling in the extremities.  The individual may fall asleep (“on the nod”) an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Long-term effects of heroin come out after repeated use for some period of time. Dependent users may develop collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, cellulitis, and liver disease. Pulmonary complications, including several types of pneumonia, may result from the poor health condition of the abuser, as well as from heroin’s effects on respiration.

Withdrawal, which in customary abusers may happen as early as a few hours after the last administration, produces drug craving, restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting, itching, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), kicking movements ("kicking the habit"), and other symptoms. Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 48 and 72 hours after the last dose and lessen after about a week. Fast withdrawal by heavily dependent users who are in poor health can be fatal.

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