Heroin has different affects depending on the frequency of use, method ingested, and amount consumed. Heroin is most often consumed through intravenous injection. This method provides the user with the quickest rush. The rush is very intense with first time users; however, gradually decreases which causes the user to need more of the heroin each time. This repeated effect can easily lead to addiction.

Heroin is a drug derived from the opium poppy.

Because of the sublime relaxation and profound euphoria heroin induces, addiction comes easily.

Tolerance is rapid and the need for increased usage to maintain the euphoria first experienced rises. Use and addiction to heroin is commonly noticed, through track marks on the arms. However, after repeated, excessive use, the veins begin to collapse, this is due to heroin being cut with an acid type product (lemons) and the acid begins to eat away at the veins. Addicts will begin using other veins. Teenagers may begin covering their arms by wearing long sleeves when clearly the need for such clothing is not required. You may notice severe mood swings from happy and excited one moment to intense crying and depression the next.

In considering heroin rehab it is important for the parents or family members of the loved one to remember that the addict is the one who decides to go for the addiction or treatment and, but the friends and family members should do anything in their power to bring the heroin addict to the point where he or she will take the decision to go to rehab. The addict themselves are the only one who can come clean.

Many times it takes more than one admittance to a heroin rehab facility to achieve success.

This is not so in every case, but can often occur if the addict is not ready to come clean but those in the addicts life try to force rehab upon them.

Other methods for ingesting heroin include inter-muscular injections and snorting or smoking the drug. Some addicts take it orally; however, the addict will not receive the same rush as with injection through veins or other methods of taking heroin.

Heroin is used both as a pain-killer and recreational drug. It is very important that if heroin is used as a pain-killer that the patient is monitored closely. The effects heroin has on the patient have the ability to become very addictive.

Once the patient enters a heroin rehab they will experience the detoxification that occurs during withdrawal. This can be very scary and painful as the body begins expelling the toxics of heroin. Medical and psychiatric staffs are present at all times and make sure that it is as painless as possible. Once the withdrawal subsides, then the healing of addiction occurs and the ex heroin addict is well on  his or her way to a happy and drug-free life, which is priceless.