How Do You Cope With Heroin Addiction Or Lesser Narcotics?
• Understand the real facts behind the drug, and your addiction. These drugs do not get rid of the physical pain in the sense novocaine or similar drugs do. Rather they work by “getting you high” or to reduce the emotional distress of pain. It is easy for those inclined to take to this feeling of euphoria and want to continue in the state. • Understand how Physical addiction and tolerance are involved. After a period of regular use (varies but 30 days might be a good starting point) it becomes noticeable that more is needed to produce the same effect and eventually the effect is gone. By that time physical addiction has most likely taken hold. The human body gets used to regular usage of a drug and when the drug is withheld for a time; physical addiction symptoms start to become noticeable. This is the the “dope sick” stage. • Think about your choices. The physical addiction of opiate drugs is very unpleasant and takes a long time (week at least) to recover from. Few willingly undergo
