Serious Medical Problems<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nInjecting heroin is dangerous because of not only the drug but also the injecting process itself. If needles aren\u2019t clean, users are susceptible to Hepatitis and HIV. Snorting, too, can result in serious infections in the nasal cavity.<\/p>\n
Other medical conditions that can result from heroin use include bacterial infections, pneumonia, arthritis, liver and kidney disease, heart infections, and more<\/p>\n
If You Suspect Addiction<\/strong><\/p>\nWe\u2019ve all seen movies where people have a puff of marijuana and then in the next scene the drug user is selling their last possessions and desperate to find another \u201chit.\u201d And while this does happen to some people, it\u2019s important to note that people can appear functional for years while hiding their addictions, leaving little to no trace of their problem in plain sight.<\/p>\n
Typically, the worse a habit gets, less capable a person will usually be of hiding it, though they may stay functional for years and the signs may be subtle or even inconsistent.<\/p>\n
While conversations about the topic may be difficult to have, it\u2019s important that you stay engaged with the person on a regular basis and stay cognizant of mood swings and behavior changes, as well as physical signs and symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As of 2016, 948,000 people in the US reported using heroin in the past year, and many of these were young adults aged 18-25, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Perhaps even more frightening is that the number of first-time users doubled between 2006 and 2016 for people (primarily males) in this age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":9017,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3150\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}