![]() Decades ago, Congress passed legislation that allowed doctors to prescribe medications to addicts that aid in surviving withdrawal. Thankfully there are medicinal options that can be used to provide comfort during the initial withdrawal symptoms. Heroin withdrawal is awful, and while heroin detox isn’t usually fatal, you feel like you want to die. I spent only a few days in detox, where patients get a safe, medically supervised detoxification from their drugs of choice. ![]() Until the 9th of December… my whole life changed. I had been to treatment a few other times, however I knew that I would eventually begin use again, I never have really wanted to quit before…. The drug had completely taken over my life, and I needed help to stop using it. I checked myself in there because for the last few years, I have struggled with substance abuse, in particular, I have had a pretty severe addiction to Heroin. On December 9th, 2012 I checked myself into the detox unit at Fairview Riverside Hospital.
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