Recovering From Heroin Addiction at a Drug Rehab Center
In selecting a drug rehab center specializing in heroin, many factors will contribute to an addict’s or loved one’s final choice of a treatment center. For as many types of drugs that individuals find themselves in the grasp of, there are equally as many treatment centers throughout the country specializing in specific types of drug addictions.
Heroin, a semi-synthetic opioid drug and a Schedule I narcotic in most developed countries around the world, is particularly addictive due to the way in which the drug works: as an opioid drug, it affects the opioid receptors in the central nervous and in the gastrointestinal systems.
Through prolonged and regular use – for heroin, this usually involves ‘shooting up’, or boiling tar or ‘rock’ heroin down to a liquid state and injecting it – of opioid drugs, users – whether they hold a prescription or not – become addicted to the need for the drug to affect the body’s main pain receptors, opioid receptors. By binding to these receptors, a euphoric, pain relieving, stress relieving feeling is often the result. This in turn creates the urge for another hit when the effects of the drug wear off. Indeed, many heroin addicts report not feeling normal or even being able to function on a daily basis until they had a hit.
Substance Abusers Find Hope and Heal at Heroin Drug Rehab Center
Many times what counselors and care givers at heroin treatment centers find is that a string or set of behaviors in a heroin abuser’s life created and enabled an environment of enabling factors to continue using heroin. Therefore, one of the central goals at any given heroin rehab or treatment center is to help a recovering addict identify those behaviors – running straight to a dealer the second money was available; putting off bills to pay for hits – and learn to replace them with positive, heroin-free behaviors.
The most important step in changing the above behaviors and factors is to first