The dichotomous situation posed with trying to stop heroin addiction and remain alive with a heroin detox is the fact that heroin is an opiate drug that causes not only physical but mental addiction. All too many people discover that once you are addicted to heroin, finding a way out of your heroin addiction may be a hard road to recovery but there are some solutions. If you are addicted to heroin, you should know that your behavior is not really yours but the drug’s distorting and transmitting of behavioral signals that can cause you to do things that you would never have done if you were not addicted to heroin like suicide or even worse like killing someone else while under the influence.
The problem is that heroin takes control of the brain’s automatic response system and craves heroin whenever faced with even the smallest need for making a decision. Your ability to think is blocked by your brain’s impulse receptors clamoring for heroin to be able to function. Treatment of addiction to heroin has been to substitute another drug like methadone that has the same chemical properties as heroin but does not send out bizarre behavioral signals when taken. This substituting of another drug is coupled with talk therapy and statistics show that it has about a 10% success rate with heroin addicts.
One treatment that may work to rid the brain of the heroin craving without substituting another drug is called the Waismann Method that was developed to help hospitalized patients who were prescribed heroin for pain and became addicted t it. The patient is put under anesthesia and his body’s heroin craving receptors are cleaned of heroin traces. The detox happens while the patient is sleeping.
This medical procedure is really fast and some would say it is the best heroin detox that is handled in a hospital setting and treats heroin addiction as a physical problem and not a psychological problem.