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Heroin
from The Detox Handbook
by nextdistro
Heroin
Most opiate detoxes involve people coming off heroin on their own. Detoxing on illicit heroin
may mean that you:
n don’t have to see a doctor; n don’t have to go to a drug service; and n don’t have to go into hospital.
But:
n controlling a reducing dose can be very difficult if not impossible (especially if you’re finding your heroin habit hard to manage); n you may have to see other opiate users to score; n if you have a stock it can be very difficult to make it last; and n you can still get busted. If you are planning to come straight off heroin without taking anything else, things that might help are: n cutting down as much as you can in the run-up to
your detox;
n switching to smoking it, if you are an injector; n expecting to feel bad, and not sleep well, for at least a fortnight and possibly much longer (see page 30); n picking a time and place when you will use heroin for the last time; and n remembering that once you’ve gone 24 hours
