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 Patrick K. Kroupa
digital@mindvox.com
The addiction series: Part II
Breaking the Cycle:
Staying Clean
All right, you have detoxed; whatever modality you chose to use, you are presently in a drug-free state - or using medications someone has prescribed for you, to assist you with whatever underlying conditions you may have been self-medicating with heroin in the first place.
It tends to feel a lot like talking the final step off a cliff. You're in freefall and not really sure how to deal with all the things that are coming at you, which you've used drugs to avoid - possibly you've never really dealt with any of the feelings or problems which cause you to find a solution in bangin' up dope.
This is one of the main things to keep in mind: heroin addiction isn't really the problem for MOST people who become drug-dependent; it's the solution to your problems. Physical dependance is just the first hurdle to get past.
How exactly you do this, is entirely up to you. I am a big proponent of ibogaine, because I tried - literally - every other treatment methodology which presently exists, for opiate/opioid dependance, and none of them worked for me. Ibogaine did work.
It also tends to provide one hell of a booster in the form of its long-acting metabolite, noribogaine, which seriously helps to reduce craving and elevates mood for a period of several weeks, to a couple of months, depending on how fast you metabolize it.
All that being said...
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