Heroin Detox Symptoms

Heroin To Cure Morphine Addiction?

The popularity of opiates first began in 1806 with the derivation of morphine. Next the hypodermic needle came along in 1848 and became the preferred route of administration for this powerful pain killing drug. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, many thousands of injured soldiers returned home opiate addicted.

In 1874, British chemist C. Adler Wright synthesized heroin and it was touted as the best cure for morphine addiction. The same flawed thinking was applied during World War II with the invention of the synthetic drug known today as methadone. Both heroin and methadone, thought initially to help relieve the suffering of opiate addicted soldiers returning from war have led to more and sometimes worse addictions.

Methadone was intended to minimize the heroin withdrawal symptoms that the drug produces when stopped abruptly. These painful and often frightening symptoms of heroin detox begin within 12 hours of last usage and can last 7-10 days in duration. They include panic or anxiety, chills, sweats, muscle cramps, nausea and vommiting. Addicts that have experienced heroin withdrawal symptoms often compare them to the worst flu symptoms ever.

Heroin addicts treated with methadone for detox purposes, titrated down and then off of the methadone in a relatively quick manner can eliminate the bedridden agony of "cold-turkey" heroin detox. However, heroin addicts placed on methadone maintenance programs become addicted to methadone, which is much more difficult to detox from because it's long half life produces more severe withdrawal symptoms than heroin produces and they can last for weeks or even months.

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