Help!.. friend is addicted to heroin

[Dr Timothy Leary]

rites wacky m8 - newcastle is ful ov smackrats, ur advice is straight up man, id fuckin educate him on tha realities ov smack, but its his own fault fo doin it, n bongfish - u shudnt b so quick 2 take tha piss outa ppls posts

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Dr Timothy Leary Reviewed by Dr Timothy Leary on 06-12-2004. Help!.. friend is addicted to heroin Okay.. my friend is addicted to heroin, he says.. he has done it 4 times i think and just bought more.. i dotn want him to become a junkie.. is there anyway i can help him without him getting pissed at me? he keeps saying this is his last time but i know he'll keep on doing it.. ne suggestions? Rating: 5

[Wacky]

Aye, its a sad state of affairs in the toon at the minute, every time you turn around there's some pastey faced junkie weighing up someone to mug or something to steal and i know its boiling my piss and everyone else i talk too. Theres only one thing these scumbags understand and thats a severe beating but it still doesn't stop them doing it again, the need for the brown is to much and they'll stop at nothing to get their fix.

Sad days

[w12ecked]

u probably dont know shit about H wacky it doesnt matter if you see some of them i heard a doctor say that you can take heroin reguarly and if it isnt cut it isnt unhealthy but wait you know better dont you

[Wacky]

As it happens i'm a lot more educated than you think on the subject of H and i know fine well it's not unhealthy if taken in the right amounts and if it hasn't been tampered with in anyway, but your telling me his mate's going to be getting the purest of shit, go and fuck yourself you must be as daft as his mate if you think that. I'm not stating that i'm any sort of professor on the subject but i know what i see and that shit fucks you up whatever way you look at it. So what your saying is it's alright to take it if your getting decent gear, maybe your a closet smackrat?????

[Kronik Bagz]

u cant just shut him out cause hes doin a little tar. u gotta remember that everyone has there own things. ur lookin at him the same way poeple look at you fer smokin herb. hes probably thinkin that noone understands and then he wont listen to you. think bout it whenever police tell you that u should quit do you say," gee maby this is hurtin my life" hell no you say "fuck u pig u dont know shit"

[dazzler]

Okay.. my friend is addicted to heroin, he says.. he has done it 4 times i think and just bought more.. i dotn want him to become a junkie.. is there anyway i can help him without him getting pissed at me? he keeps saying this is his last time but i know he'll keep on doing it.. ne suggestions?

lock him up and dont let him out off your site it will take time about a week then it takes 6 month to get over it i was on it 4 three years now ive been clean 4 four years trust me

[IntrepidS]

Don't be afraid to go to his family if your convincing doesn't help

Which brings this question: how old is he?

[Aden Thomas]

In my opinion, I don't think that smackheads are the 'scum of the earth' or anything like that. The way I see it, we are allowed to try anything (aside from avoiding getting caught by pigz!) but we gotta be willing to accept the concequences too. If they fuck they're body up, it's their fault and can';t blame anyone else, but this kinda thing applies to any drug you try. I ain't tryin' to justify the usage of smack, but obviously it';s there for a reason like everything. But people like to use it for fun. But we all know that heroin contains morphine (or if not always, it usually does) which makes it the ULTIMATE PAIN KILLER in my opinion. Sure, it will wear off and can leave some people feelin' like shit afterwards. The shitty feelin' of coming down is one of the short term consequences. Addiction and goin nuts from not having your fix is the long term consequences.

I've know a few ex smackheads and once they come off that shit, you begin to notice the real person again.

As for people hooked on smack, it's down to them not to go thieving from friends or shops, but I gotta admit I don't know anyone who hasn't done this. It's this kinda thing that makes them bad in my opinion - how they handle they're addiction.

One of my mates used to be a scaghead. She robbed from shops, sold people's car tires and sold 'em to garages and shit like dat, but she NEVER stole from her friends.

In that kinda situation, I wouldn't really give a shit what she did as long as she wasn't robbing from me or my mates, coz the worlds too small to give a fuck about the small shit like this. I don;t mean that in a selfish kinda way, I'm just implying that I don't feel affected in anyway.

It if was mugging, then I would feel pretty disgusted! There's something about those arseholes that pissed me off.

I knew some dude who is also a scaghead. He was always tryin' to pull stunts for a fix.

He was always hassling me and my mates to lend him money. One of my mates let him take advantage of him and lent it to him and never got it back. I knew not to fall for that. He's also a pothead and when given the opportunity, tried to insist on sorting his mates out with dope but either spends the other half of the cash on a fix, or keeps the other half of the dope and rips 'em off.

I nearly fell into this trap of his by givin him some cash for some hash, but luckily all his dealers were outta stock. I was kinda weary that he might try and rip me off or run off with the cash but he didn't - he said he couldn't find any weed and gave it back. I was worried he might have ran off with my cash. He might have avoided this because he had his fix that night though. But the way he was constantly hassling his mates for money, it started to look real pathetic. He has a good side to him as far as I can tell, but it's how he handles his addiction that changes his personality.

If some scaghead was to pin up every night but never stole to fuel his habit, then I wouldn't see him as a bad person, but a lot of you guys had some real good points about thid topic too.

Personally, I'd never touch the stuff, but at the same time I can't knock it 'till I've tried it as I don;t know enough to judge it.

Peace out stoners! :rasta:

[daima]

Okay.. my friend is addicted to heroin, he says.. he has done it 4 times i think and just bought more.. i dotn want him to become a junkie.. is there anyway i can help him without him getting pissed at me? he keeps saying this is his last time but i know he'll keep on doing it.. ne suggestions?

Be there for your friend.
Always remember that it is easy to love people who are easy to love. Your love is now being challenged and it might no be so easy anymore.
Remind your friend that his life is worthy. Make sure your friend has clean needles. One other thing to keep in mind is that you are no longer dealing with the person you knew. The worst thing your friend will ever hear you say while he is still using is the word, No. Addicts hate that word and become very unreasonable when they are told, No.
An addict will wait hours for his/her dealer, will listen to excuse after excuse, and lie after lie, and say "thats cool". But if they hear the word, No? all hell breaks loose.
It is very hard to be friends with people who become addicts. You need to set healthy boundries for yourself.
Dont trust them with cash/property.
Dont make excuses for them
Dont become a co-dependent
Dont ever take the blame for them
Ask for help from others who have experience in dealing with addicts. Go to a NA(narcotics anonymous) meeting and ask what you can do for your friend.
Love your friend until he is able to love himself once again.
Let me know how things are going for you. I do have some xperience in this area.

dai*ma:stoned:

[Fengzi]

Daima has some really good advice as do a lot of the others. My advice is, whatever you decide to do, DO SOMETHING!!!!

I lost my best friend, one of the best people I've ever known, to heroin addiction. He lost his job and his wife moved out and took their son. The last time I saw him I had gone over to his house and he was there with a bunch of other junkies. He was a totally different person . He was saying that he had no money for food or the rent. I was going to loan him a few hundred when somebody showed up and sold him some more heroin. Seems he did have some money but only for the Important stuff. A few days later I tried to call him but the number was disconnected and when I went by his house he was gone. That was 6 years ago and I haven't seen him since. Neither have any of our other non-junkie friends.

My big mistake was that I didn't do anything. I took his word when he said he had it under control and always assumed that his wife would whip him into shape.