Struggling to stay away from heroin...

The first step is admitting you have an addiction. Trust me, if you are in this subreddit, you are an addict, and just happened to be born with a predisposition toward addiction. Drugs literally completely fuck with your mental health, so badly. There is no in control use of drugs for an addict, especially not hard drugs.

I am also an addict, and only just came to this realization and admitted it to myself. I am now just past a week clean, after IV heroin addiction. You have to try to put yourself in the mindset that, no drug is going to make your depression better. The highs are way shorter then the lows.

You have to make the decision that you care about living more then dieing, and you have to quit everything right now. I recommend looking up the Thomas Recipe for opiate withdrawals, loperamide is a gem for them aswell.

We addicts can not recreationally use drugs, we just can't. You have to try to take an abstinced based approach. It's the only way your body, soul, and mind will be able to really heal. Just 1 drink is all it can take to end up in a full blown relapse. This is something you have to admit to yourself, and accept it.

It's either life or die for us addicts, I don't think there is any middle ground as far as being able to use recreationally goes. Just my 2 cents.

I wish you the best of luck in your recovery, keep coming back here, it is a great subreddit and influenced my decision to get clean and finally accept and admit my addiction and the fact that I will always been an addict, whether I am using or not. Good luck, stay safe with your usage in the mean time if you aren't already clean.

You can do it, recovery is very possible :) good luck

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