I have seen a lot of interest in heroin overdose lately. I get a lot of search traffic for keywords like famous people who have died of an overdose from heroin and many similar terms.
One thing I know for sure it is not pretty seeing someone out cold and possibly dead. I have seen people who have overdosed on heroin get their pockets picked clean and any jewelry they were wearing was taken to. Mind you I was one of those people its like what goes around comes around because I was fleecing their pockets when they fell out.
Let me tell you a story about a friend of mine who had overdosed on heroin when I was like 17 years old. He died on the couch and the next morning when everyone woke up they found him lying there dead. Well anyway another person I hung out with went through his pockets and wallet and found his stash of heroin in the wallet and snatched it up. The ironic thing here is he shot the same heroin that killed my friend with a overdose the night before.
I had a lot of friends die from an overdose of heroin one of them shot his dope in the shooting gallery got up and walked out and just fell over dead. Another guy I knew OD in the dope mans joint and they just tossed him out the window in the alley behind the place. You may wonder why a person would want to live like this. The answer is because they were a hard core heroin addict and did not have a clue of how to stop using quit using heroin.
I saw a whole lot of crazy stuff in my 30 some years of heroin addiction. I have even been to the State penitentiary a couple of times for drugs. Nothing could stop me from using not even the years I spent in prison. I could not get clean until I was ready to surrender on a much deeper level than just saying I want to stop using.
I know that in cities like N. Y. and others that when addicts here about someone overdosing from heroin they try to find who is selling the same heroin. This makes no sense to me now that I am clean but I certainly understand this type of addict behavior.
If you think you may have a problem with heroin addiction or any other drug addiction for that matter I would suggest that you get some help as soon as you can because after all many people are dying from overdose every day.
I remember the one of the many times that I overdosed on heroin and woke up in the hospital with tubes down my throat and a lot of other places. I am not sure how long I was out for but they gave me the drug to counter act the heroin. Anyway when I did come to I asked the nurse right away when I could go home she told me I would have to ask the doctor so I told her to get him for me.
It was quite a while before he got to me but if you have ever been in the hospital you know that most of the time they are very busy. Now when he did get to me I told him I wanted to go home and he says why do you have more heroin at home I said no but he hit the nail right on the head because that is why I wanted to go home.
I am telling you this story to help you to see how powerful heroin addiction or any addiction for that matter. I mean I just overdosed and was lucky to be alive and wanted to go use some of the same dope that I od on. If this is not sick addict behavior I do not know what is.
I have also overdosed on heroin in the dope house several times. One time I was trying to get super high and did to many bags of dope and fell out. Lucily I was around people that gave a shit and new what to do. One of the guys ran outside and got some snow and the put it on my testicles and I came out of it.
Another time I did to much and was on the second floor of an apartment and two of my dope fiend buddies carried me down stairs and put me in the back seat of the car anyway I came too just before we got to the hospital and they told me they were flying all the way there blowing red lights and what not.
If you stop heroin now you can avoid becoming just another statistic. One way you can quit heroin is to go to heroin addiction rehab. If you do go you will go through a medical heroin detox. This detox will be performed by a trained medical staff who will administer prescription medications to help ease any discomfort from heroine withdrawal. This procedure normally takes around 5 days.
I would also suggest when finished that you continue your recovery in residential treatment. There you will learn how not to return to active addiction by attending group, lectures, 12 step meetings, and individual drug addiction therapy.
Good luck
My name is Art. I help people to recover.
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Please is you are addicted to heroin GET HELP NOW!!! I just lost my brother to heroin. He was not an addict he did it only on occasion, but nonetheless he did it. I found him on my birthday March 5,2011. That was the hardest thing I have ever had to go through. the girl he was getting high with left him there, didn’t call anyone, didn’t try to get any help for my brother, she just took his money and his clothes, yes I said clothes, Harley shirts, I guess to sell them to get more drugs. It has been very hard for me to deal with his death, he was not only my brother but my friend. And my mom oh my gosh my mom… She is beyond devastated. She blames herself. My children has lost their big goofy uncle. I have lost my big brother who was a pain in the ass a lot of time, but he was my pain in the ass. Please don’t just think about how good the rush feels. Think about your family, your true friends. GET HELP!!
Hi Tonyea
Thanks for sharing this with us this tragedy people need to here things like this more often. It may help to wake someone up. Yes it is very painful when we lose a loved one or a friend for that matter to drug addiction be it heroin or any other drug. I thank God for waking me up because many of my friends did not get another chance.
My God be with you
The words spoken here are so true! Please get help if you use. My 19 y/o son just passed this May. We just got autopsy reports that it was heroin. My 17 y/o daughter found her brother dead as she was getting ready for school. NOT SOMETHING ANY FAMILY MEMBER SHOULD HAVE TO GO THRU!!! The kids that were with him? Just drove him home the night before dropped him off even though they knew what he had taken and took off with his wallet~ a 70.00 hat~ and every bit of anything valuable that. Was on him. People do not understand~ YOU CAN DIE FROM THIS DRUG!!!!!! And Tonyea~ my heart goes out to you dear!
i just overdosed last night it was not fun it was my first time doing it and my freind had to call 911 they gave me a narco shot and i was up and alive again but was very very scary i will never touch the stuff again
That happened to me last night but, 911 wasn’t called..
I hope you have found the strength to stay clean …
I’m hoping never to touch the stuff again either..
Hi there dj thanks for sharing this information with us glad you made it back to us. I hope that you do stay clean from here on out. God was with you this time but a lot of people were not as fortunate and died from overdose. I hope that you keep this in mind every time you want to use.
Good luck
My brother just died of Herion overdose less than a months ago. 6 years ago I smoked H with him…I had no idea what it was but I trusted him.I was 16 at the time. I didn’t know anything about drugs…I had smoked pot and it wasn’t that big of a deal…I had always heard all drugs thrown into the same cattegory that when I smoked pot and realized it wasn’t that big of a deal I didn’t think much of smoking that white powder through the pen that my brother and his friends showed me how to hold abover the tin foil. I smoked it the first time after I had been drinking and I kind of liked the feeling. Mostly it just inhanced the alcohol, and I slept like a baby that night…it didn’t have to much of an efect the first time…I didn’t do a very big hit. The second time I smoked it was right before I had to go to work, it was strong shit…I took one very big hit and caughed a lot. about 5 or 10 minutes later I was sitting on the couch and I just could not bring myself to get up. My whole body felt fake…I kept thinking that I should get up and call in sick because I couldn’t even get off the couch…but than I just didn’t care. Finally I got up and went to work…the first time I had been late to work…told them I wasn’t feeling very well. I was naucious for like 2 hours maybe more but I couldn’t puke, I kept feeling like there were bugs on my face. I remeber the usually customer complains didn’t even faze me…I didn’t care at all. That was the last time I touched the stuff…my brother offered it to me again but I told him it was too strong for me…he laughed. A month later I walked into his room to tell him dinner was ready. He had a string tied around his arm and a neadle in his arm. I stared in awe not knowing what the hell he was doing. He yelled at me “get the fuck out of here now”. I left, I thought maybe he was taking some kind of medication that he was embaressed of, I had no idea what Heroin was or how one went about doing it. The tone of his voice when he told me to get out was one I just could not shake.
One day I overheard my sisters talking about him…one of my sisters was asking if he was clean…I heard them say something about marks in his arm. Apparently he had become adicted the year before and had gone to rehab, my parent had chose not to tell me about it…to protect me I guess. All of a sudden it all hit me…I some how pieced it together and I asked them what it was he was using…they told me and I told them he was still using. I told them what I had seen and what I had done. One week later he was back in rehab and this time he stayed in it for a full 2 years. He got better he really did…he came out to live where i was living and moved into an apartment around the corner from where I lived…we hung out a lot during the last 4 years…we went to parties together…had the same circle of friends. I would check up on him all the time…I never stopped worring about him. But he seemed to be doing a lot better. He woul open up to me. One time he told me he was so sorry for everything he had put us through. We became really close friends. Than he moved back, he had found a job in another country and moved in with his girl friend. I threw his goodbye party and drove them to the airport the next day…he was so excited and so full of dreams and hopes. I talked to him only a couple of times over the last year…every time he told me how great he was doing and how very happy he was. He loved his job…he had a few very close friends that he hung out with often and him and his girl were getting along well. I trusted him and figured I could stop worring…plus I got real busy with my life. I have another brother who also developed a Heroin problem at the same time and got help during the same time…he was also doing great until he relapst last year. Since than I have been worried sick about him, but since my other brother was doing so good I figured I could stop worring. One month ago I got the call. He had been by himself…he had taken the train out of town to an area known for being full of dope he had checked into a hotel. When the police found him he was lying outside the hotel. My other brother is still in rehab and I worry about him all the time, every time the phone rings I shake inside. I hate feeling so helpless. We all talked to him…we are trying to find him a good therapist to deal with the many triggers that cause him to relaps. I just wish I could do something more. I can’t lose another brother. I feel so hopeless, I wish someone could have been there with him…he wouldn’t have died if he was here…if I could watch him.
Hi there thanks for sharing with us
I am truly sorry for your loss and I understand what it’s like to lose a loved one. Here’s the thing it sounds in a way like you are blaming yourself for not being there for him. Let me just say this you can not say he would not have died if he were there so you could watch him.
Watching a person may work for a while but trust me if a person wants to use they will find a way to use no matter who is watching them or what the consequences of using are. Another thing is you can not watch someone 24/7.
I am a recovering addict and I know all about being watched and if I wanted to use I would find a way. Now as far as your other brother goes you can be there to try and help him but in the end it is his decision rather he wants to use or not. No one can make a person stop using.
Good luck
I over dosed last night … I’m alive to see my birthday today!!!
I was clean for many years but, I relapsed hanging with the wrong friends. I had only been doing it for a month or two.. I spent all the money I had saved or earned in that time period. People on heroin only care about their self and don’t care who begs them to get help. I am glad I have another chance at living in this world. I hope I can stay straight.. I guess I needed the scare to open my eyes because no one else could get through to me not to go back down that path.
Hi Stephanie thank you for sharing this other addicts need to here this kind of stuff
You are truly blessed and I hope this was a wake up call for you and this was a gift from God. Do not take it for granted like I did. It took me many years with more than one overdose so God truly was watching over me and still is because I had many using friends that died from there first heroin overdose.
I owe my life to God and NA. I have been clean many years now but it took me over 30 years to get it right and there is no need for it to take anyone this long.
Good luck
Remember do not use no matter what and trust me what ever it is you are going through it will get better if you stay clean.
My partner of 9 years just recently passed away on 14th January 2012, I have just received his death certificate today which indicates cause of death is due to toxicity of heroin.
I am devastated by the findings of the coroner’s office as I was with him until 10.30pm the night before he passed away.
On the 13th January 2012 @ 8.30pm the night before he passed away I was with him at his place when he used which I wasn’t very happy about as we were previously were living together in Nov 2011 but broke up for two weeks because of his using, taking xanax pills which turned him into a different person. After getting back together after the 2 week break we still lived separately but saw each other almost everyday.
He was so smashed after using i started telling him off but he was too smashed which upset me even more so i was getting ready to leave but as soon as I told him that I’m leaving cos sick of seeing him like that he kind of came to and told me not to leave but I walked out and went downstairs to front door, which he chased after me and told me to go back upstairs to talk which I did.
However as soon as he sat down again he was back to nodding off again and I tried so hard to try talk to him but gave up after he started snoring really loudly. I was so upset I wrote a letter a filmed him on his phone to show him how bad he was and why i can’t be with him if he is like this.
It was about 10.30pm that I finished writing the letter moved him into comfortable position on bed as he was knocked out with legs hanging over side of bed and snoring, when i moved him he and kind of woke up and I said I’m leaving and not seeing him anymore cos sick of all this.
He kind of sat up and said you can’t leave me just because of this? But I was too upset and disappointed and just left.
The next day I didn’t bother calling him or msg him cos was upset but by 9pm he didn’t call I started to worry and called and his phone was off and called his mum which she said his phone was on this arvo when she called and she said he just turned off his phone to ignore her.
I called again a few times and his phone was still off but close to 11pm it rang when i called but no answer so i thought he ignoring me but 3 mins later i got call from police asking if i knew this person and was told he is deceased. The people he lived with found him dead after getting worried they didn’t see him all day and no one answer when they knocked on his door and light in his room was still on.
I could not believe it and was asked to ID him, i came to his house and as soon as i saw his body i broke down and had to be taken away by police.
I think back now to that night and question how i could changed things so that he is still alive and I blame myself for not calling the ambulance.
I didn’t call ambulance as i really thought he was fine because I’ve seen him worse and nothing happened those times and as he was still able to sit up and talk before i left. I also thought that if someone was going to OD it would happen straight away when he shot up.
The people who lived with him said that they still heard him snoring after 12am on the day they found his body.
Please if you ever feel or think someone has had too much just call the ambulance because you rather call to be safe then not call and then something happens that you can’t change.
I know hate myself everyday cos i blame myself for his death, i can’t forgive myself for letting that happen to him. I think he passed away very early in morning of 14.01.12 but his body wasn’t found until close to 11pm that night, which breaks my heart so much as would of been over 12 hours…
I myself am an ex user but have been clean since 2007 when my two brothers passed away together from fishing accident. Their passing has made me stronger and determined to stay clean as they tried so hard to help me when they were alive so that was last thing i could do for them.
Please if you have an addiction get help! Because if anything happens to you it is the people you leave behind that suffer. I go through everyday hating myself for not getting help for my partner after seeing him smash like he was . I have so many questions I just can’t understand like why he couldn’t stay clean as i did when we both went on methadone program at same time and Ive been off the program since Aug 2011.I keep playing everything in my head thinking how I could change things so that he is still with me today…No words can express emotions of hurt, guilt and sadness I feel everyday…