Heroin addiction is one of the toughest obstacles for drug rehabs today. Heroin is so physically addicting that usually the first time a person tries it they are hooked. Purity levels for heroin are extremely high in the US allowing for people to smoke it and snort it. This has caused younger people to become addicted to heroin because it no longer has to be used with a needle. More and more we are finding heroin in suburban areas being used by young teenagers who are now doing anything in order to support their habit.

Heroin dependency is the strongest of any drugs. Many heroin addicts suffer extreme physical pain and agony because of the potency of the drug. Addicts also gain strong degrees of tolerance and physical dependency from the heroin, which are also powerful motivating factors for compulsive heroin usage and abuse. As with abusers of any addictive substance, heroin abusers gradually spend more and more of their time and energy in finding ways to obtain the drug. Once the person is addicted, the heroin abusers' main purpose in life becomes seeking and using heroin. The heroin not only changes the mind and the brain but more importantly changes the person’s integrity.

Heroin physical dependence develops with higher doses of the substance. With heroin physical dependence, the body adapts to the presence of the drug and withdrawal symptoms occur if the usage of the heroin is reduced suddenly. Heroin withdrawal may occur within a few hours after the last usage that the heroin is taken. Symptoms of heroin withdrawal include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), and leg movements. Major heroin withdrawal symptoms peak between 24 and 48 hours after the last dose of heroin and subside after about seven days. However, some individuals have shown persistent heroin withdrawal signs for a few months. Heroin withdrawal is never fatal to otherwise healthy adults, but it can cause death to the fetus of a pregnant heroin addict women.

In many cases people addicted to heroin demand to be medically detoxed before seeking treatment. Families are sometimes talked into believing that detox is enough. This is not true because all detox does is taper a person down of the heroin so they don’t feel the withdrawal effects. Unfortunately the underlying issues have never been addressed which is what effective drug rehab programs will do.

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