When you’re recovering from heroin addiction, you get to the point when you find yourself feeling bored and restless. You’ll feel that even though you’re following your methadone medication schedule and participating in the counseling recommended by the clinic staff, something is missing from your life. What do you need in order to restore balance and enjoyment to your life? Managing downtime ...
Drug Addiction in Texas: Increasing Numbers of Females
What do you picture when you think about drug addiction in Fort Worth or Dallas? Years ago, people envisioned filthy ‘junkies’ with sunken eyes and pale, clammy skin. Then, in the last decade, young hipsters popularized “heroin chic”—the look of the emaciated, gaunt model with the blank stare. These days, there’s no stereotype, because even housewives and others that you might have never expected ...
Heroin Addiction: Become Educated
In the early months of 2014, the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder identified heroin addiction as an “urgent public health crisis,” advising heroin addicts and their families to carry injectable naloxone as an antidote to heroin overdose. However, Dallas-Fort Worth heroin addicts don’t have that option, as Texas is one of 43 states that still prohibit naloxone syringes in the medical kits of first ...
Trusting Your Counselor
As you make the decision to participate in opiate addiction recovery at a methadone clinic, you will suddenly feel overcome by a wave of fear and doubt: Can you trust your counselor? Trust is something that addicts do not come by easily, and they do not inspire it in others, either. How many people do you trust? Will your dealer give you a fair price for your pills? If you’re doing heroin or ...
Heroin Addiction: The Tragic Cycle
Heroin Addiction and Child Endagerment Maybe you’ve heard the story of Hershel Howard Jackson, age 44, arrested for possession of heroin in Texas along with a woman named Jennifer Joyce Warner. The police visited his hotel room in Waco, looking for Warner, who happened to be in the room next door. This information they learned from Jackson’s 14-year-old daughter. Both Jackson and Warner were ...
Heroin Use: Should the Dealers Go to Jail?
When heroin use results in death, does the heroin dealer bear any level of responsibility? Federal law passed in 1986 mandated a 20-year sentence for any dealer who sold drugs that contributed to someone’s death. The law stated that over 500,000 people had died from heroin use. The law was passed while the War on Drugs was in full swing. While it received little attention over the years, it was ...
