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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if it is heroin, you need to ditch the kid ASAP.

There is no saving a heroin addict. It will just end with pain and suffering for the entire family. Change the locks and don't let him in.[/quote]

You are wrong. I have family members who have been as low as you would like, who are now clean, sober and well-employed. [/quote]

Don't you dare tell me I don't know what its like. My 22 year old son is a heroin/multi-drug addict and has been since age 16. If I could have him alive again, I would do ANYTHING. Sadly, the truth is, as soon as he stuck a needle in his veins he was dead. The only thing you can do is kick him out, change the locks, and hold a funeral for the human being he is.

Look at the stats. The only successful method of getting 'clean' is to give them a script for suboxone or methadone, aka legal heroin, to pad the stats. That's not clean, that's just being a legal junkie.[/quote]

You are a terrible parent. [/quote]

Take great issue that the only way to get clean is through suboxone or methadone.  There are many, many heroin users who have gotten clean through hard withdrawal and no substitute drugs at all.

I do kind of agree that suboxone and methadone are legal heroin and do have lots of objections to them being promoted as the answer.  They are addictive and getting off them can be harder than heroin because they have much longer half lives.  But many people see nothing wrong with people being on these drugs for life.  It is very common for users to use methadone or suboxone as backstops for days when they can't score heroin. Plus, there is now a methadone clinic lobby that clamors for more public funding.  That said, these drugs do have a role in treating addiction, just not nearly as prominent as they do now.

Way better to do naltrexone (Vivitrol), which blocks opiate receptors and is non-addictive.[/quote]

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