Heroin: Creating Zombies in 2008

I hate heroin. I hate what is does to innocent people. For a heroin addict everyday is the same. They get up and go find heroin. They wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. They can't sleep. They worry. They walk around thinking about it. They think up ways to get it. They manipulate people to get it. They steal and lie to get it. Heroin addicts are like zombies. They only want one thing and that's heroin. They don't really care about anything else. It's a horrible existence. Sure, I know what some of you are thinking.."So, they did it knowing that they would become addicted to it"...Teenagers have a mindset, a "its not going to happen to me" attitude.

What can we do? How can we protect them from this devastating health epidemic? Education? They know about heroin...they know about the effects of heroin...All it takes is one kid to say "hey let's try it"...then before you know it...there's twenty kids doing it. Those twenty kids are selling it to hundreds more...It's just so hard to stop using it...it's difficult to know if they're using it...and even more difficult to find treatment solutions that treat the addiction as well as the addict. Any ideas out there? Any solutions?

You can't help a heroin addict

I've come to the conclusion that you can't really help someone addicted to heroin. They must first want to help themselves...and rarely will they do that...However, if if you can get them to take seboxone for 3 months continuously they will begin to see things differently. The key is continuously-everyday for 3 months. The seboxone will give the brain time to heal...and eventually they will start to feel good about themselves...During this time period they will say ....hey I'm good...I'm not an addict anymore...and I don't need to take the seboxone anymore...Whatever you do don't let them stop...Their brain will tell them they don't need it...so they can use again...it's the wierdest thing but I think the brain knows what it's doing...Remember to tell them that this happens all the time and that its a "Brain Trick"...It happened several times to my daughter...I just told her not to fall for that-don't be tricked by your own brain. She continued taking the seboxone and later told me she thinks I was right. She said she's sure her brain was trying to make her stop using the seboxone. She's been clean from using heroin for 5 months now. I'm very happy with her progress...using the seboxone. Not so happy about the other drugs she occasionally uses such as [mushrooms, aderal, or weed] But I'll take what I can get at this point.

The prozac is causing her to think of suicide. She has an appointment with her psychiatrist to see if the dose needs to be increased or decreased. Since she started taking the prozac she doesn't know what's going on inside her head. She says she can't control those thoughts...They just appear out of no where...and for no reason. She said it was just strange...and she feels strange.

Boyfriend's Back and He's Takin' a Beating

Well, he came back. She has been completely wild since the breakup...however, still not using heroin...but she managed to consume some mushrooms, aderal, valium and smoke alot of weed...[She tells me these things after the fact]...It drives me completely crazy that I don't know that she's high...she seems fine to me...I'm always looking at her eyes. I did notice her eyes being very dialated one night and asked her what she was taking. Of course, she said it was the light and said look at your eyes they're dialated too...and they were! They have an answer for everything.

Anyway, back to the boyfriend, he was cheating on her with a friend of hers...and she's not happy about that. Now, all she wants to do now is hurt him by calling her lesbian girlfriend. Yes, she was hanging out with a lesbian...who is very infatuated with my daughter and wants her to be her girlfriend. Since, getting back with her boyfriend she's decided she's not gay. I don't really care what she is...I just don't want her doing any drugs.

She had a drug test a couple of weeks ago and it came back clean...her psychiatrist just wanted to make sure her liver was functioning okay...The suboxone can sometimes cause elevated liver enzymes...and he also wants to make sure she's not using heroin. She sees her psychiatrist one a month and she never knows when he's going to ask her to take a blood test. He will give her a hair follicle test soon and everything she's done for the last 6 months will show up...she knows this...I guess she doesn't care.