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Addicts Need Professional Help
Back to the document's frontpageA heroin addiction is not easily broken, and most addicts will need intensive and normally residential rehab programs to get sober, and learn how to stay sober. A heroin addiction can be beaten, but without professional help, the odds are slim.
Great damage inflicted on body and soul
Heroin, once thought to be the domain of inner cities and older addicts, is invading the suburban communities of the country. The profile of use has changed, and now there is no "average" user. The addiction affects people from all walks of life and devastates equally.
With tolerance and dependence comes an ever increasing need for the drug, and the cycle of addiction and withdrawal avoidance deepens the hold of the drug over time. The longer heroin is used, the tougher it is to get off of it. The longer heroin is used, the greater the damage to the body and the soul; and since most addicts will ultimately progress to the injection administration, the odds of serious health complications, the contraction of a fatal disease, and accidental fatal overdose, all increase the longer the drug is used.
