Heroin Tolerance, Addiction and Withdrawal |
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 With regular Heroin use, Tolerance develops. This means the abuser must
use more heroin to achieve the same intensity of effect. As higher
doses are used over time, Physical dependence and heroin Addiction develop.
With physical dependence, the body has adapted to the presence of the
Drug and Withdrawal symptoms may occur if use is reduced or stopped.
Heroin withdrawal, which in regular abusers may occur as early as a few hours
after the last administration, produces drug Craving, restlessness,
muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting, 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 subside after about a week. Sudden
withdrawal by heavily dependent users who are in poor health is
occasionally fatal, although heroin withdrawal is considered less
dangerous than Alcohol or barbiturate withdrawal.
Heroin Addiction Drug-free Withdrawal
The Narconon Drug Detox and Rehab program uses a totally drug-free
method of withdrawal (we don`t substitute one drug to get off another).
This first step of the program assists the individual to cease current
drug use rapidly and with minimal discomfort through proper nutrition,
vitamins and care from experienced Narconon staff.
| Definitions of Terms Used |
| Addiction | Strong physiological, emotional and/or psychological dependence on a substance such as alcohol or drugs that has progressed beyond voluntary control. For more on addiction see the section Addiction Information in this website.
| | Alcohol | Refers to ethyl alcohol or ethanol.
| | Craving | A powerful, often uncontrollable desire for drugs.
| | Drug | Any substance, other than food, that changes the function or structure of the body or mind when ingested. Drugs essentially are poisons. The degree they are taken determines the effect. A small amount acts as a stimulant. A greater amount acts as a sedative. A larger amount acts as a poison and can kill one dead. This is true of any drug. Each has a different amount at which it gives those results.
| | Drug abuse | The use of illegal drugs or the inappropriate use of legal drugs. The repeated use of drugs to produce pleasure, to alleviate stress, or to alter or avoid reality - or all three.
| | Heroin | The potent, widely abused opiate that produces a profound addiction. It consists of two morphine molecules linked together chemically.
| | Narconon | A non-religious, non-profit drug rehabilitation program using technology developed by author L. Ron Hubbard. The Narconon program was originally organized in Arizona State Prison in 1966 by William Benitez, an inmate who was himself a drug addict. He applyed basic principles regarding self awareness and self assurance contained in books by L. Ron Hubbard and, by doing so, completely cured his own addiction to heroin. Mr Benitez then went on to help twenty other inmates do the same. Today there are Narconon centers in 45 countries.
| | Physical dependence | An adaptive physiological state that occurs with regular drug use and results in a withdrawal syndrome when drug use is stopped; usually occurs with tolerance.
| | Tolerance | A condition in which higher doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect as during initial use; often leads to physical dependence.
| | Withdrawal | Symptoms that occur after chronic use of a drug is reduced or stopped.
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Source: The National Institute on Drug abuse (NIDA)
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