How Can I Stay Sober After Rehab? Extended Care Programs for Heroin Addicts If you suffer from heroin addiction, you may have tried to get clean and sober more than once. You’ve been to the Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and they worked for a while—until you started shooting junk again. Maybe you’ve even been to rehab. …
Where Is the Best Heroin Rehab Program for Women? Ask most people to picture a heroin addict and they’ll likely think of Jim Morrison or Kurt Cobain. But heroin addicts aren’t all white, male rock stars—they are rich and poor, from every ethnic background and gender identity. But methadone clinics and other programs often aren’t…
Where Can I Get Help Quitting Heroin? Find Out about Archstone Recovery Ashley (not her real name), a twenty-four-year-old recovering heroin addict from New York City, asked Archstone Recovery Center of the Palm Beaches, a state-of-the-art drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, to share her story on our blog. Ashley called us two years ago. “I…
Will My Insurance Cover Heroin Rehab? Get the Facts from Archstone Recovery At Archstone Recovery, we get a lot of questions about how to access the best possible heroin rehabilitation treatment for you or your loved one. It usually goes something like this: “Am I ready to quit using heroin? If I am, how do…
Women who use heroin face different challenges when it comes to getting clean—just as heroin addiction can show up in different ways for different people. Of course, women who use heroin (smack, junk, dope, H) experience the same effects of addiction as men do: they become physically dependent on smack, unable to function without it,…
Heroin (junk, smack, dope) addiction can be one of the most devastating drug addictions. Once smack has a grip on you, it refuses to let go, causing junkies to go to extreme lengths to get the fixes they need. In cities like Philadelphia, PA; Boston, MA; Baltimore, MD (made famous on HBO’s The Wire); and…
